Girls in Science

Okay. I haven't posted anything from WREN yet. I didn't go to it! I was sick the day before and Mom wanted me to be ready for Girls in Science (GIS) on Sat. so that is what I'm going to write about this week. I didn't type yesterday because I was so sick I thought I was going to die. Actually maybe not - I couldn't think straight. It was a migraine headache and a stomachache.

Anyway GIS was a staged crime of murder. "Mrs. Pringle's Deadly Party! Who Killed the Mystery Guest?" I was in the Beakers group. They came up with some pretty funny names: Footprints, Magnifying glasses, and Fingerprints! Very scientific! We all had name tags with a number (1,2, or 3) on the back. Each of the three groups went with a group leader (mixing up all the groups) to the crime scene, which was actually set up in three different rooms that looked the same. The crime was that Dracula was killed next to the refrigerator.

Mrs. Pringle was rich because her brother had died in a freak bungee jumping accident and left her heaps of money. (Some people still think she killed him for his money.) She wasn't well-liked by anyone because she was never nice. Someone actually said he did not wish her to die, but he was surprised she wasn't the victim! If Mrs. Pringle had died, her "best friends" would have gotten equal amounts of money in her will.

We got to interview the four suspects. They were Mrs. Pringle's "best friends," but none of them really actually liked her at all. One of them was really snobbish and acted scared. Talk about looking guilty! Once when someone asked her favorite animal she ran out of the room. The rest of them just answered questions and acted like they were scared that someone was going to rush in and hit them with a softball bat.

I went to four labs to solve the crime, so I'm going to write a post for each one.