Kid-made science kits (Now this is how you teach science!)

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rJ5KtOnnco

I met 15-year-old Connor at a signing in Raleigh-Durham. He asked great questions and was a fun audience member, but even so, he blew me away when he revealed after the talk that he's been making and selling science kits for kids since he was nine, and has built a modest and successful business out of this, and uses his proceeds and his profile to give talks about entrepreneurship at struggling schools without much science curriculum.

They're cool kits, and Connor's a fantastic kid.
http://www.boingboing.net/

Check out his website: http://www.kitsforkids.com/science-kits.html

Read through the info on his site. He is on the right track about how to teach kids scientific concepts. Kids don't usually get this excited about anything in school. As long as there is some followup so they do remember the concepts as well as the 'slime,' it looks like educational scientific fun. That isn't an oxymoron after all.