‘Out of this world’ marble run
Posted in Gadgets, Science project, Video on March 11th, 2010 by ScottThis is ‘Take Two’… the original was a bit of an epic (over 7 mins), so I’ve edited it down to around 2 minutes. It’s got a quite a nice ending but only really has any impact if you watch with sound on.
Every year Dropmore Primary School runs a science project competition. The children (aged from 4-6) are set three challenges and can choose which one to enter. Parents are encouraged to work with the children, so the children can learn, but it tends to get a bit competitive – especially between some of the dads!
This year my son, Dylan, and I created a ’space themed’ marble run. It took a whole weekend – I did most of the building but my son was very involved in the designing and testing phases! I used dowel to create the tracks and an old Quality Street tin to make a ‘rocket lift’ that carried the marble back to the top.
Anyway I created a movie of the whole project including the grand finale, science day itself, when our effort went down a storm.
For your interest, it was filmed using a Nokia N75 mobile phone and edited using Adobe Premiere.



