Photos: Fun with Science in Guilderland

Students demonstrated and investigated the more visual properties of some scientific phenomena.

The Enterprise — Michael Koff

Fun with science: Gabby Sanza, a student in Annette Sebuyira’s Advanced Placement chemistry class, shows off a vortex cannon, filled with dry ice and water, to fifth-grade students from Lynnwood, Altamont, and Guilderland elementary schools Friday morning at Guilderland High School.

The Enterprise — Michael Koff

Mixing the ingredients to make an oscillating whirlpool, Lucas Laing, a Guilderland High School college-level chemistry student, left, turns the up the heat plate as a student from Lynnwood Elementary pours material into a beaker that will help make the whirlpool. Later in the demonstration, the water turned colors in front the students’ eyes.