Karen asked me if I would help give a short talk to a local scout group which in some way scared the pants off me, it made me wonder if the 6 to 7 year olds might sit there arms folded and correct everything we tell them through what they have already learned on the discovery channel.
Not so! We blinded them all with pictures of our solar system, and even got them to participate in a walking model of our planetary line up, and as our confidence gained dizzy heights, we charmed them with descriptions of each planet and there deadly atmosphere's and explained how it would take so long to travel to them.
The look of awe on their faces turned Karen and I into God like story tellers who's power through our incredible knowledge raised us on a pinnacle such that we now charge good money for our short talks.
Truly however, we both had a good time with the scout group and surprised ourselves that we could in fact entertain such young people and teach them some thing about the other worlds in our solar system, we were shown a great welcome by Karen Wilmer and Sally, the scout leaders who even asked us to come back and give another talk some day.
- Chelsea Page
As seen at: http://www.redditch-astro.org.uk/NewsLetterDec.html
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