Trial balloons pass library tests with flying colors
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August 7, 2019
BARBER SCHOOL – Katrina Barber, La Conner Regional Library staff, shared a science lesson for children on Friday that was a cut above most. She used string, balloons, tape and an air pump to demonstrate elements of jet and rocket propulsion. The local library has been site of several activities this summer related to the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing. -Photo courtesy of Bill Reynolds
The sky was the limit at La Conner Regional Library Friday.
And all it took was an air pump, balloons, string and tape.
Not the sort of technology one would expect at NASA or Space-X, but it was plenty enough for the Library’s Katrina Barber to introduce local children to the concepts of jet and rocket propulsion.
Barber attached string to a long ladder laid over sawhorses, and extended still more string up the side of the library building on Morris Street for a 45-minute program she tied to the 50th anniversary of the Apollo lunar landing.
Using those and other basic props suggested on-l...
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