On Wednesday 12th June, Liam Campbell, Scott Kinloch ,Calum Campbell, Connor Jameson , Eilidh McMillan and Maisie Logan went away to big bang science event in Glasgow that was taking part in the SECC and entered the Saltire competition and the Eco ferry challenge; Scott, Calum and Maisie entered the Saltire competition and Liam,Connor and Eilidh entered the Eco ferry challenge, as well as that they all did a presentation on the science that they have done through the year.
We went to the university to test our wave power machine, Port Ellen Primary were the first to get there’s actually working and we were the only primary school that was testing their wave power device at the same time as all the secondary schools! We were able to produce light at a high frequency in the water movement. After testing the device we went to the transport muesum, We were even aloud to go inside some trains! Inside they had some games like a fireman game were someone had to turn the wheel to make the ladder that you were standing on move while, as you had to aim your hose at the fire and put it out. There was also another game were you had to row as a team to beat the white dot round but it was broken. After looking around inside we went outside and went on the tall ship were we scrubbed the deck, and went down in the coal store, there was a play room were Calum dressed up as a pirate while Liam and Scott walked the plank!
Later that night we went to Frankie’s and Benny for dinner and went to bowling after, we had a competition, girls vs boys and the girls thrashed the boys! The next day we went to the SECC to present our presentation to the judges, we were a bit cramped at where we were set up and we had to be really loud when we were presenting because were we were doing it lots of people were talking! It was really fun and very interesting because I learned a lot from it, and it was something that I have never done before!
By Maisie and Eilidh
On the 9th of September 2013 most of the schools on Islay went to Islay high school to learn about astronomy. The professor was called Mr Newman who is an astronomer himself. He told us lots of information like how to find an asteroid and he showed us telescopes he had worked with, some cost £5,000,000 that had found a lot or interesting stuff. He showed us a picture that had 500,000,000,000,000 stars in it which was amazing. He also explained that stars can come in different colours. Blue stars are hotter than the orange, red and yellow ones. He showed us with marbles and balloons how far away planets and stars were. At the end we asked questions and here are one of the answers. A shooting star is just a speck of dust that has caught fire as it entered the atmosphere.
