Swiss Science Center Technorama

So on the 19th of December my class went to this place called the Swiss Science Center Technorama that was in Winterthur. We met at the Burgdorf Bahnhof at around 8 and then took a two hour train ride to get there. I sat with my friends Viola and Fabienne on the train and another girl. We went with another class as well. When we got there I was hanging out with Jasmin and Yael who are in my class and it was so cool there!

At first, there was this presentation with electricity and it was kinda boring at the beginning but later in the show they brought out a person in this metal suit and they got some kids from the audience to go behind this cage and they got to stick their arms out in the same material. They brought down this metal ball that had electric bolts coming out of it and the guy in the suit got a metal stick raised it to the ball and with his other arm he pointed at the the kids' arms one at a time and lightning came out of him! It was pretty cool! After that we went to this other section and it was based a lot on water and gas. They had this huge container that went from the floor almost the the ceiling that was full of gel. With a pump you would pump a huge air bubble in it. I didn't like it that much. There were some really cool things with water but for the life of me I can't remember. There was this other thing where there was this table nd it was kinda like those bowls that you can compress but when you press on this table with some others you can get some smoke rings to come out! Oh! That also happened with water! You push this handle and the rings come out! It was really cool!

Video of Yael making a tornado

We had a break for lunch and everyone met up again and then we went to the next floor and found these mirrors! And we just kinda fooled around there for a few hours.

We looked around a few more times and that was about it. I went home and relaxed a bit more. That's pretty much about it.

Sorry for it not being that long. Thought it would have been better, Haha.

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