The Space Gal, Emily Calandrelli, Shows Students How to Build a Baking Soda Rocket for Baking Soda Rocket Day: Launch Across America
In celebration of the final day of World Space Week, participating students nationwide will create bottle rockets with ARM & HAMMER Baking Soda and attempt to launch the most baking soda bottle rockets ever at one time. Renowned scientist and engineer Emily Calandrelli is joining forces with the baking soda brand for the inaugural Rocket Day: Launch Across America on October 10. The goal of this day is to shatter records and ignite curiosity and enthusiasm for STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) among students nationwide in partnership with the U.S. Space & Rocket Center (home of Space Camp), Emily Calandrelli ("Emily the Space Gal"), Dee the Science Kid, and more than 250 underprivileged schools nationwide. Emily joins us to share what she's up to, including an upcoming trip to space, and to provide video instructions for classrooms to follow and take-home worksheets for students to reflect on their learning experiences with their families. After the bottle rockets are launched, each participating student can enter for a chance to win a trip to Space Camp at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. For more info, check out bakingsodarocket.com .
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00:00Hi everyone, I'm Emily Calandrelli and you're watching Life Minute TV.
00:05I have a lot on the calendar right now.
00:06I'm going to be flying to space soon.
00:08That's something that I'm really excited about.
00:10So going to space, building rockets, this is all part of all of my passions and my dreams
00:15and I hope to give that gift of that dream to kids all around the country.
00:20I'm also launching my own YouTube series called Emily's Science Lab where we do these hands-on
00:26STEAM experiments and I show families how to do them at home.
00:30So this is my passion.
00:31This is my bread and butter.
00:32I love learning how to make these hands-on science experiments accessible for families
00:37so that parents who may not have a scientific background can feel comfortable doing these
00:43activities with their kids and building that science confidence in their kids.
00:48It's so important to ignite the STEAM curiosity in kids everywhere because in our world, science
00:55and technology is advancing at such a fast pace.
00:58It's such a fast pace and the challenges of the next generation are becoming so complex
01:03that we are going to need everybody's input, everybody's creative ideas to help solve the
01:08problems of the next generation.
01:11The challenge there is that skill and talent are everywhere but oftentimes opportunity
01:16is not and sometimes the way to bring that opportunity to more kids so that more kids
01:21see themselves in these fields is with hands-on STEAM experiments just like this one.
01:27And STEAM is so important to me, science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics
01:32because this is the language of the next generation.
01:35This is the language that our world is built on and we need kids to gain their confidence
01:40in STEAM so that they can be part of that world.
01:43I'm partnering with Arm & Hammer Baking Soda to help launch Baking Soda Rocket Day on October
01:4710th.
01:48We are going to be launching the most Baking Soda Rockets in a single day.
01:53We are partnering with 250 Title I schools across the country and each of these kids,
01:58each of these schools has received materials to build their very own Baking Soda Rocket
02:03and it's very basic materials.
02:05It's a two-liter bottle, pencils, duct tape, a cork and of course Arm & Hammer Baking Soda
02:10and vinegar.
02:11These hands-on science experiments, this is a way for kids to build their own confidence
02:16in themselves when it comes to science.
02:18It's a way for them to see themselves as a scientist or an engineer.
02:23I've seen firsthand, after kids do these hands-on science experiments, they will often say,
02:28I want to become a scientist when I grow up.
02:30I want to be an astronaut.
02:32And it takes that hands-on science experiment for them to see themselves in those fields.
02:38And so for any family who wants to participate in this and give that gift to their child,
02:43they can learn how to build their own Baking Soda Rocket and be part of Baking Soda Rocket
02:47Day at BakingSodaRocket.com.
02:50If you're building one of these Baking Soda Rockets, just be prepared that they are really
02:54powerful.
02:55They're more powerful than you think.
02:57And so once you flip them over, because you have bottle variety and cork variety, they
03:01can take anywhere between 30 seconds and 5 or 6 minutes to launch.
03:05And so once you flip it over, just trust that that pressure is building and building and
03:09building and do not touch it, do not move it.
03:11Just be patient and wait for the magic to happen.