A group of eighth graders in Heath Juneau’s science class were on their second attempt at an unusual experiment: injecting liquid carbon dioxide deep underground — or at least a classroom model of that process.
“Coach Juneau, can we get our CO2?” Ava Bourg, 14, asked.
Her group’s first try sprung a leak of the representative CO2, which was in reality orange vegetable oil. But Bourg and her classmates were ready to try again after Trenton Nash’s careful handiwork using Play-Doh to try to plug it…