STOCKTON — “OK, next I’m gonna let you taste my burps!” Dr. Proton bellows, lab goggles slightly askew.
“Ewwww!” comes the cry from dozens of kids, half-horrified and half-hysterical, torn between volunteering or running away.
From getting a quarter to scream to giving the kids a dry ice bubble shower, Dr. Proton — AKA Doug Christensen — kept the budding young brainiacs spellbound during his Mad Science presentation, which led up to the awards ceremony at Thursday night’s Science and Engineering Fair.
“It felt weird!” 11-year-old Roya Rejaly, a fifth-grader at Mountain House’s Bethany Elementary, said of the bubble shower. “Like mist all over my hair. It smelled good!”
The mind-bending shower was the favorite part of the night for Yahvin Gali, 10, a fifth-grader at Altamont School whose own science fair entry focused on ways to keep blood from clotting.
The fair, the 57th for the San Joaquin County Office of Education, drew some 300 entries from 1,000 students representing 21 schools and 10 districts in the county, said Kirk Brown, director of Science and STEM Integration and Innovation for the county office.
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