Their nighttime activity was in the t-Rex area, and focused on archeological data interpretation. They made up a story with animal track stamps, and the groups had to try to guess each story. There was a girl about the boys age named Jenny who was very good at it! Part 2 of the activity was breaking up an "Owl Pellet" and matching bones with a bone chart to help determine the owl's diet. Nathan, Thomas and I found frog leg bones, a rodent jaw bone, and probably the same rodent's pelvis. The activity lead was from Cheektowaga! He struck up quite a few conversations with me after he noticed Nathan's Buffalo Bills sweatshirt... He is a physics teacher in Needham who got a MS in particle physics from Buff State. Made me think sometime it might be a fun thing to volunteer to do some day when the kids are older.
We then did domino physics (stacked them to do a chain reaction tip over)... That was allowed them to play with the other kids quite a bit.
After snack and setting up our beds, we got to see the lightning show. They did a great demo of the Tesla coils! They used them, sparking at different frequencies, to play the "Imperial March" with Even some harmonies!
We made through the night, and got to the planetarium and IMAX theatre Saturday morning... The IMAX film was "Amazing Caves" which was really good!
