Older students teach elementary kids during Science Night

Washougal — Cape Horn-Skye Elementary School’s annual Science Night saw more than 500 students and family members come out March 9 to see the 20 stations of science-related activities and Fifth Grade Science Fair.

Clark College sent faculty members and students to help guests bead bracelets using binary coding and create kinetic butterflies. While the Mount St. Helens Institute brought back its popular Trash-cano presentation.

Washougal High School’s Science Olympiad team led students in creation of make-and-take catapults and an Angry Birds demonstration.

Marlin Martin, “The Science Dude,” also set up a wind tunnel station, balloon rocket cars, straw spinners and create-a-thing stations.

“Our students really look up to these older kids, making it extra special,” Darcy Hickey, Science Night organizer and a first grade teacher at the school, said in a press release. “One of my students came in the next morning talking endlessly about the robot that a Washougal High School student brought. Now he can’t wait to be in high school so he can make one, too.”