With these funds I will...purchase safety glasses and safety goggles for student use on our Science Olympiad Team.  We must make sure we have proper eyewear to protect our eyes when we practice and study for the Science Olympiad events.  Several, incredible events require safety glasses or goggles.  

• 3-2-1 Blast Off is the most exciting event for our students.  Here, students create bottle rockets out of soda bottles.  They design fins and determine the "just right" amount of water needed to get the right pressure for the best lift off of the rocket.  Safety goggles are a must have just in case a rocket under pressure were to explode or if parts of the rocket flew off toward watching eyes.
• First in Flight is an incredible event where students design paper airplanes that fly the furthest distance in a straight line.  Eye safety is imperative as pointy paper planes are zooming through the air at high speeds.  
• Marshmallow Catapults is a new event this year.  The students will build a device designed to launch a marshmallow at a target on the floor.  No one needs to get smacked in the eyes with a fast-soaring ball of puffed sugar!
• Pasta Tower requires that students build a tower out of pasta and glue that will hold several kilograms of weight.  These towers snap, crackle, and pop under the heavy load, and protecting our eyes from flying spaghetti is very important.  
• SuperSleuths allows our forensic minds to be challenged.  In this event, safety goggles are a must-have as students test unknown substances.  No one wants a squirt of a potentially hazardous fluid in his eyes!

According to the Science Olympiad rules, it is our responsibility to properly protect our eyes during our practice sessions, but we must also bring our own protective eye wear to our regional competition in May.  These resources are NOT provided for us.  

A 10-Pack of Safety Goggles from Carolina Biological costs $36.85 per 10 pack.  We need at least 20 goggles as we will have two teams of students this year.  The above events require two students per team, so that would be 10 students, and if we have two teams, that doubles to 20 students that need Safety Goggles.

Cost = $73.70

Tax = $5.53

PledgeCents Fees = $6.38

Total Cost = $82.22

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