Can you imagine an opportunity to sleep in a science museum?

St. Cloud Elementary students just had this opportunity at the Orlando Science Center. Students left school on a recent Friday evening for the museum. Upon arrival, they ate dinner and science began.
First, they were treated to Kaboom, with experiments demonstrating how different gases burn and by adding certain chemicals how fireworks colors are produced. An astronomy lab created star charts for everyone, which came in handy when looking at the evening sky on the terrace.
A trip to the sixth-floor allowed students to look through the observatory telescopes and view Jupiter with three moons and the Orion Nebula. The entire museum was then explored and students tested all displays.
Around midnight and after a snack, students “slept with the dinosaurs.” Some even braved sleeping under the T-Rex. Morning brought breakfast, more science exhibits and a planetarium experience of Orlando’s night sky.
Sixty students and nine staff members made a memory few will ever experience.
Submitted by Bill Underly, St. Cloud Elementary School.