Ever since our first video that went viral in 2005, people have been dropping Mentos into Diet Coke and other sodas for fun and hopefully for a little science too. No one has been more creative than the guys at Eepy Bird, who recently built a car that runs on Coke and Mentos geysers. This is their second attempt at the car and after some modifications and test drives, they ran it at a local race track.
Their geyser soda car is built using 54 bottles of Coke Zero and 324 Mentos. It runs on a piston mechanism with 6′ tubes attached to the soda bottles. The tubes each have a 6′ rod inside. The pressure from the reaction pushes the rods out of the tubes to push the car off the wall. It’s all coasting from there.
The video of their geyser rocket car has become popular on YouTube. Unfortunately, this isn’t something anyone can build and run themselves. If you want to run your own version of the Mentos Geyser Rocket, check out our Mentos Geyser Car. It’s fun, it’s science and it fits in your arms. Read some reviews on the Geyser car for more information.
Tune into Food Network’s Unwrapped to get a peek inside the Spangler Science labs as Steve shares the science behind the Mentos Geyser all of that exploding soda. Back in December, I mentioned that a crew from Unwrapped on the Food Network wanted to get the real scoop on the popular Mentos and soda reaction. The crew spent an entire day grabbing the reaction from every angle and trying to understand how all of those tiny bubbles produce such a huge fountain of soda. The episode is scheduled to air on September 24, 2007. Consult your local listing for time and channel.
As a youth speaker, I’ve had the opportunity to share my message at most of the leading youth conferences in the country. However, in my 15 year career as a youth speaker, I had never heard of the KIDS PLUS Conference in Duluth Minnesota. I just returned from one of the best student leadership conferences in the country! The 13th Annual Kids Plus Conference was sponsored by the Northland Foundation and was an experience nearly 2,000 youth and adults will not soon forget. It’s no easy job to pull off a quality learning experience for 2,000 students, but the conference organizer, Carol Valentini, did it with style and class.
Carol invited me to present a featured session entitled, “Exploding Soda and Flying Potatoes: Uncovering the Secrets of Creativity”. As you might imagine, the session drew an a wide range of audience members from science enthusiasts to kids who just wanted to see build a connection between the Exploding Soda Trick and a lesson in leadership. And I was just one of 54 speakers at the conference! My hat is off to Carol Valentini and the Northland Foundation for creating a quality event that was overflowing
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