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Get parents involved in their kid's science education! Send this experiment home with your students to do with their parents or other family member. The Experiment Worksheet includes questions for the student to answer and bring back to class for discussion, as well as detailed instructions for the experiment. The experiment requires only common household items to perform.

Latest Assignment: Eggs at Rest Stay at Rest Contributed by: St. Louis Science Center Will you scramble eggs? Discover how an egg at rest stays at rest with an egg, a broom, an empty toilet paper roll, a pie pan and a glass of water. Experiment Worksheet

The TryScience Parent Pages, contributed by the Partnership for Science Literacy, an initiative of the American Association for the Advancement of Science include a wealth of information and ideas for getting a child's family involved in their science education, as well as links to many other helpful resources.

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There are countless opportunities for parents, teachers, and children to experience the fun of science together in the community. Many science centers support programs out in the community through a variety of partnerships and outreach efforts. Find a Science Center in your town and find out what your community has to offer, or check out these helpful guides found in the TryScience Parent Pages!

Here are some additional resources:

• FIRST
  (http://www.usfirst.org/)
  FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) is an multinational non-profit organization, that aspires to transform culture, making science, math, engineering, and technology as cool for kids as sports are today. FIRST operates the FIRST Robotics Competition in which teams of high school students, sponsored and assisted by local companies and volunteers, design, assemble, and test a robot capable of performing a specified task in competition with other teams.
  
  FIRST also runs the FIRST LEGO League (FLL), considered the "little league" of the FIRST Robotics Competition. It extends the FIRST concept to children aged 9 through 14 through a partnership between FIRST and the LEGO Company. Young participants can build a robot and compete in a friendly, FIRST-style robotics event specially designed for their age group. Using LEGO bricks and other elements such as sensors, motors, and gears, teams gain hands-on experience in engineering and computer programming principles as they construct and program their unique robot inventions.

• Odyssey of the Mind
  (http://www.odysseyofthemind.com/)
  Odyssey of the Mind involves students from kindergarten through college in an educational program culminating in an international competition. Kids use creativity and problem solving in challenges that range from building mechanical devices to presenting interpretations of literary classics. Students compete on the local, state, and then World level. Thousands of teams from throughout the U.S. and from about 25 other countries participate in the program.

• Science Olympiad
  (http://www.soinc.org/index.htm)
  The Science Olympiad, an international nonprofit organization devoted to improving the quality of science education, promotes intramural, district, regional, state and national tournaments. The Science Olympiad tournaments are rigorous academic interscholastic competitions that consist of a series of individual and team events, which students prepare for during the year through classroom activities, research, and training workshops. The Science Olympiad provides recognition for outstanding achievement in science education by both students and teachers.