On Friday Nov. 13, nearly 20 minutes before class ended, all science teachers took their class out to the soccer field to watch a real hydrogen bomb explode.

Well, not a REAL hydrogen bomb, but the next best thing. Mr. Scott Thorpe and Mr. Ryan McCoy filled a giant balloon with hydrogen, tied it to a board and lit a flame racing to the balloon for an explosion! The sound traveled to the opposite side of the school and sent a shock wave taking the breath away of students watching.

“What we do is the different points of chemical reaction and what we did was just show them a synthesis reaction outside,” Mr. Thorpe said. “I don’t know if it’s much of if the students learned from it, than it is to let them see chemistry come alive and a little more interest in the subject.”