Asteroid Angela Helps Science Take Off Meet Asteroid Angela and
her “booger slime”. Together, they’re getting kids – and
especially girls – excited about science. Angela Scroggins, aka
Asteroid Angela, brought her traveling Mad Science show to the
Imperial Beach Library Tuesday afternoon. She spent about an
hour intriguing and amazing a crowd of nearly 50 children and
parents. “It’s all about sparking their imaginations and making
it hands-on fun,” Scroggins said. The experiments mix
entertainment and education in equal amounts. Getting kids to
learn terms like exothermic reaction and sublimation requires
the right hook. And in this presentation, things like “booger
slime”, dry ice and a dancing George Washington did the trick,
even for the adults. “I love the interaction between the kids
and parents,” said June Engel, the Imperial Beach librarian. “We
try to have programs that are family-oriented, so it’s not just
parents dropping the kids off.” The most popular experiment was
a series of demonstrations invo