This price covers one student attending one 1.5-hour class block.
 
Sunday 8/4 4:30 - 6:00 PM EST: Beyond Potatoes: How to Generate Electricity from Just about Anything
Have you ever asked yourself: What exactly *are* batteries, and how do they work? Could *I* make a battery? (yes); Can I really make a battery with a potato? (yes, but we will do better; potatoes aren’t special.) 
That’s right! edRev founder Matt Benet will teach you enough electrochemistry for you to create your own battery! From potatoes to tomatoes to saltwater to tofu, we’ll be trying many possible materials to explore what can be used to make a battery! We’ll try a myriad of household materials and different techniques to find what works and what doesn’t, and (more importantly), learn the *why* of it all! Along the way, we’ll see how these examples are explained by the laws of electrochemistry and can help us understand why they behave the way they do. If you’ve already taken AP Chemistry or an equivalent course much of this content may be a review, but feel free to still join and apply the concepts you know to exciting new experiments!
We’ll be experimenting with the principles behind electricity and batteries, and learning why your basic potato or lemon batteries barely scratch the surface! By the end of this, you’ll understand how you can replace the potato with virtually anything when making a battery! 
 
 
Sunday 7/28 4:30 - 6:00 PM EST: The History of the English Alphabet
You are reading this right now, which is pretty cool! Writing is a really powerful tool that lets us turn the sounds from our mouth into something more permanent. In this class, we’ll start at the origins of written language, and walk through the many steps it took to get from ancient rock carving to the 26 letters we know and love today.
(Recommend age: 12+, although younger are welcome)