Kate's Science Fair

Kate had a Science fair project due this past Thursday. We mostly finished this over Christmas vacation, but ended up completing the rest as soon as I got out of the hospital. Kate did the well known mentos and diet cola experiment. We tried it with different kinds of soda to try and piece together what ingredients cause the reaction. We did this because it is both fun and easy. We assured Kate that there was no way such an easy well known experiment would win-- which we were glad about. Well, Friday we went to the school to see the science fair and tada Kate's board has a Blue first place ribbon. Kate's teacher said it was because Kate was so articulate and knew her experiment well. Her teacher also told us to get rid of the misspelled words. So Congratulations Kate, and now we have to do the district science fair. Again we have said, "Don't worry, Kate, there is no way this experiment could win." This time this has to be true becuase she is competing with Jr. High and High School science Whizz's.