There’s nothing better than a science training to make you feel like a giddy, anxious student again. A question is asked, and now it’s your group’s task to figure it out. You know you should know it…you completed elementary school years ago. Yet the tasks are more rigorous than before, the stakes higher, and you have a pile of random materials that you have no idea what you’re supposed to do with. You begin following the instructions meticulously, step by step. You add some tape here, do some folds there. You attach this dohicky to that thingamabob. You switch on the light. You’re not sure what you’re supposed to see, but the fear is receding and it’s starting to get fun.
You tweak your model and try again. Slowly, a hypothesis surfaces. You justify your opinion against your group mates’ competing ideas. You make a few more adjustments. The moment of truth arrives…
You see what you hoped you would see. Hypothesis CONFIRMED.
You feel the satisfaction of, once again, showing the world that not only do you have the key to unearthing its secrets, but that you will soon teach others to do so, too.
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Seize the Chalk 