Child makes a huge bubble at the bubble station

QCHS Science National Honor Society hosts STEM Night at QE

Quakertown Community School District

May 13, 2026

On the evening of Tuesday, May 12th, students of QCHS’s Science National Honor Society hosted a STEM Night for our QCSD elementary students at Quakertown Elementary. The gymnasium of QE showcased 12 STEM stations, inviting students to explore various engaging hands-on science activities, including:

Binary code alphabet bracelet table: students were encouraged to create a bracelet representing their name

Students making bracelets

Binary Code Alphabet

Number Dash table: students used dice and addition to move through the Number Dash activity


Students line up at the number dash station to play the game.

The Number Dash playing card

Oobleck table: students made the slime-like substance with cornstarch, water and food coloring. It had the appearance of being liquid like, but in actuality it was solid

Students create oobleck

oobleck substance

Big Bubble Station: using a mixture of Dawn soap and cornstarch, students created huge bubbles


Student creates a big bubble

Student makes huge bubble

Popsicle stick catapults: students created catapults with popsicle sticks, spoons and puffy balls

Student see's her puffy ball fly with her catapult

Paper airplane station: with help, students folded and made the perfect paper airplane, and tested each design’s distance to see which model flew the furthest

Two students sit behind a table at the Paper Airplane Station

Make-your-own solar system activity: students were provided paper cutouts of all the planets in our solar system to create a paper model

A photo of the paper solar system example

Solar System Station

Milk fireworks experiment: students poured milk into a small petri dish and added drops of food coloring to the center. Then they dipped a Q-tip into dish soap and touched the center of the colors. The soap broke down the surface, creating rapid swirling colors

Milk Fireworks station

Coke and Mentos explosions: students dropped Mentos mints into the soda bottle, triggering a rapid, geyser-like eruption


Coke and mentos station. Two students are standing behind a table with a white table cloth and black bucket to do their mentos and coke explosions in

Marshmallow tower challenge: students were tasked with building the tallest possible freestanding structure using toothpicks and mini marshmallows


Children make marshmallow towers

Microscope station: students had the chance to examine materials under a microscope, including bugs and snake skins

A high school student assists a child with the microscope as they examine a hornet

The hornet students had the chance to examine

Chromatography activity: Students learned that since different color pigments have different weights, they are carried at different speeds and end in different places.  

High school students stand behind their Chromatography station

A family working at the Chromatography station

Thank you to our Science National Honor Society students for putting on this wonderful STEM night and to our families and students for attending! It was a wonderful evening of experiments and joy!