CSI

              Heaven enjoyed her first "Juniors Only" Girl Scout even this weekend. The Pensacola Mess Hall sponsored a Crime Scene Investigation event for the older Scouts on Friday evening. We've been wanting to check out The Mess Hall for the last year or so, but it was one of those things that kept falling off our weekend to do list. Basically it's a hand's on Science Center where kids get to do "fun" (aka messy) experiments and the staff on hand tries to imprint the various scientific reasons for said messy experiments into the young minds.

Microscope Lab

               As the event was "CSI" themed the girls did various detective type centers. They had a finger printing lab, where the girls studied their own unique finger print techniques, they had a microscope lab where they tried to match up various items under a microscope, they had a reactions lab where they studied how a certain chemical will react differently on different surface areas...you get the drift. The staff worked really hard to try and explain the "science side" of things but, honestly I think most of the girls were just excited to get to make messes freely. 

This was pretty neat. It was a "Who Dun It" video where within the 60 second clip, 100 changes were made. It was interesting to see what got caught and what your eye didn't pick up.

"Code Solving" lab

          Once the girls had a chance to run thru all the special CSI labs, they were free to use the other exhibits for the remainder of the event. Heaven said her favorite was the parachute building, followed closely by the Keva Plank building area.

 

  

             Overall it was a great time...and hopefully the girls even learned a thing or two. We will definitely be returning with the full Brandtio clan in the future.