Day 2: Physics Demonstration

While half the groups at the competition were solving safes we went to a scientific workshop that involved the physics behind glass blowing. The seminar was half in Hebrew and English. Talya was chosen as the first volunteer and went up and helped in the formation of a jug by melting glass and mending it into certain shapes. Following this many of the international teams were chosen as volunteers and another from our group. Asli was chosen to participate in a group activity with another Israeli boy, which involved a competition to see who could blow water the furthest and obviously Asli won. Apart from this we learned about the different properties of glass such as it never reacts with anything as well as it not being a solid but a liquid. We were all pleased to be able to leave with presents that will always be with us to remind us of our experience here in Israel.