Thursday, April 17, 2008

Viroqua Middle School students do some interesting experiments...

Luke Kleiber’s project was the talk Wednesday of the annual Science and Math Expo at the La Crosse Center.

The 13-year-old Viroqua Middle School eighth-grader wanted to see whether Chinese water torture — steadily dripping water onto a person’s forehead — worked. He had seen a television
657 middle school students from 16 area schools and 107 volunteer judges participate in the 2008 Science and Math Expo 2008 Wednesday at the La Crosse Center.

He didn’t really want to torture anybody, Kleiber explained, and his four subjects knew they would not be tortured.

But what he found was their bodies responded as if they were being tortured, Kleiber said. More...

See also: Obama and students in a Bronx high school...
And this: Why are Finnish students smarter than the others?

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