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2013 Summer Program

In 1771, Luigi Galvani discovered that a spark of electricity could make (detached) frog's legs flinch. The science of bio-electricity was born. Mary Shelley incorporated that science into her fiction and Dr. Frankenstein's Laboratory.

Harness the (safe) power of two C cell batteries to make machinery move, eyes and brains glow, legs flair, Zombies dance, sparks jump, and your imagination dance. (Experiment with only wood and wire. No frogs or frog parts!) Projects will avoid the scary side of this tradition that is most of Frankenweenie.
The 8th in our First Circuits series.


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