Avoid long lines at Open House on Friday, August 10 for uniforms, SASCards, vehicle passes, and bus registration!
By taking care of all three things on your to-do list before Friday, August 10, you will be able to spend your time at Open House meeting with your child's teachers, exploring the school, and enjoying complimentary ice cream from the PTA.
Online Uniform Sales
We strongly encourage families to purchase uniforms online, as this will save you time and make your Welcome Week campus visit(s) more efficient. Online uniform sales will begin on Wednesday, August 1. Purchases may be picked up on campus beginning Tuesday, August 7, in the high school gym.
Campus uniform sales will take place in the high school gym on Monday, August 6, from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. through Wednesday, August 8, from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The school will be closed on Thursday, August 9, for Singapore's National Day. Friday, August 10, is Open House, and uniform sales will take place in the gym from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. For the easiest and fastest service we recommend ordering your child's uniforms online before coming to campus.
Uniform Purchase Payment
Please note that payment for all sales will be by credit card via PayPal only. If you do not have a PayPal account, you may check out as "Guest" using a credit card. For on-campus sales, payment by SASCard or cash will not be possible.
SASCard
For security reasons, all parents, family members, and household help who plan to visit the SAS campus on a regular basis will need an SASCard for identification purposes. The card can also be used for cashless purchases at campus food and beverage outlets. Parents planning to drive to campus will need a vehicle pass as well. If you do not have an SASCard or vehicle pass yet, here is the information you need to obtain them.
Where: Eagle Stop (A108) When: Monday through Friday, 7:45 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. What to bring: SASCard application form plus copies of your employment pass/work permit/dependent pass/NRIC, passport, vehicle license number, and vehicle IU number
Note: The school will be closed on Thursday, August 9, for Singapore's National Day.
Bus Registration
Register your child for bus transportation by visiting the bus office. For parents who have registered their children already, the bus office will message parents on their cell phones with their respective child's bus schedule. Bus registration should have been renewed already for returning students and any
registrations within two weeks of school are subject to availability.
Where: Eagle Stop (A108) When: Customer Service Counter—Monday through Friday, 7:45 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. and Express Service Counter—Monday through Friday, 3:45 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. What to bring: Bus registration form, one passport size photograph for each child, bus fee Forms of payment accepted: Singapore dollar in cash, Singapore check, and internet transfer
Click here for bus registration form. Further questions may be sent to sas@yeaptpt.com
Note: The school will be closed on Thursday, August 9, for Singapore's National Day.
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I was grain-free for a long time (and generally still am) while healing my Hashimoto’s, but my husband is Italian so I knew I had to find a way to still have pasta. This creamy homemade alfredo sauce recipe is delicious over, well, pretty much anything! Alfredo sauce is typically thought of as unhealthy (all that butter...
While this is a kid-friendly idea, a lot of the prep needs to be done by an adult, or older child. And you’ll need to redo some steps while your child paints, too.
I kind of felt like an artist getting this ready. My palette — a pizza pan — is a rainbow of colors!
Simply swipe each color, in the order of the rainbow, onto a sponge. Use a paintbrush to add the paint to the sponge
I said the colors as I was adding them to the sponge to teach Henry the order of the colors in a rainbow. I had to reapply the colors onto the sponge multiple times and said the colors to Henry every time.
By the end of the activity, Henry was reciting the rainbow colors in order with me!
He got it from his preschool teacher for reading eight books in January. I find it funny because I forgot to write out our slips for each book we read until the last week of January.
Eight books aren’t many, but Henry is so proud of that bracelet.
What are your favorite rainbow crafts and activities? We’d love to try out some new ideas!
George is a long-time user of both Shot Scope V1 and now V2. We met George when one of our team members happened to play with George at an event last month. George mentioned his scoring and handicap had climbed from 4 to 6 over the past year and that he couldn’t pinpoint the cause. George hadn’t made any significant swing changes although he did change his wedge set-up.
In 2017, Shot Scope identified poor gapping with his PW, 49°, and 56° wedges. This season, George altered his setup to use a PW, 50°, 54°, and 58°. The Shot Scope team decided to work with George on a case study and see if we could identify a cause for his increased handicap.
George’s Stats
George’s game overview shows he is now a 6 handicap, and his general game is in a good state. George mentioned that he plays 4/5 times a week (he is retired) at different courses and in competitions. He doesn’t hit the ball too far, but with 64% fairway success he is accurate with the Driver. With no obvious red flags, the team decided to look at George’s wedges, since that is the only change he has made.
Avg. Wedge Distances
As you can see from the Shot Scope V2 Data, George’s gapping has improved with the new wedge set-up. When he added the extra club, George removed his 4-iron, which he hardly used since he carries a 23° Hybrid. This was definitely the correct decision for George, and it’s great to see the difference between his 2017 and 2018 distances.
Short Game Performance
When looking into George’s short-game performance data, we found something intriguing. George uses a lot of clubs around the green, playing predominantly at a links course there should be a lot of chip and runs. He has a poor proximity to hole average with his 50°, 54°, 58°, 50°, and 23° hybrid. Those clubs account for 64% of his greenside shots. It’s possible there could be a bias towards using the new wedges at an increased frequency, and the inaccuracy could boil down to a lack of practice with the new lofts. There are obvious reasons to use high-lofted wedges around the greens; e.g., out of bunkers or other situations where obstacles must be carried, but on true links courses like the ones George plays, he could play more chip and runs. There is little reason to use the hybrid as the data suggests that George is not very good with this shot.
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Short Game Potential
We sent George an example of what his short game could look like if he decided to use specific clubs for short game shots, and how without changing technique, he could improve his scoring. We are aware that there will still be an occasional need to use high-lofted clubs around the green, but most golfers can benefit from lofting down around the green.
Not only could George improve his average proximity to the hole by 2.3 feet, but he could also potentially get up and down 11.5% more often.
Showing George the potential performance of his short game should encourage him to loft down around the greens and ultimately lower his handicap. George may not be able to resist using the higher lofted clubs around the green, but that is the goal.
Recommendation
George should attempt to use his putter, PW, 9i, and 8i more around the greens and not to use the H23 or 50 at all. George should monitor his stats to see if can attain the potential usages per club and maintain the up and down ratios.
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There are so many decisions to make when it comes to choosing materials for home building and renovation: color, design, durability, and of course cost. But do we also need to consider whether or not the materials we put in our homes are toxic? Today’s guest Andrew Pace says yes! As a building materials expert he’s...
Kids love experimenting, and these 50 simple science experiments from Brigitte are perfect for kids of all ages! Plus, you probably already have the basic supplies at home.
My daughters and I have had a lot of fun doing science experiments. Each year when we create our spring and summer list, we make sure to include “science days” which are days filled with science experiments.
Sometimes our science experiments don’t work according to plan, but I have been told that all scientists have failures with experiments from time to time.
It’s okay if they aren’t all successes.
50 Simple Science Experiments with Supplies You Already Have
I love these 50 simple science experiments for you to try with your little scientists. They all use basic household supplies that you probably already have at home!
Most of these are experiments my daughters and I have done together. I hope you enjoy them as much as we have!
Have more volcano fun by making apple volcanoes as seen on The Resourceful Mama.
Learn about acids and bases and the chemical reaction that occurs when you make apple seeds dance with ajumping apple seeds experiment as seen on JDaniel4s Mom.
Continue your dance party by making raisins dance with a dancing raisin experiment as seen on 123 Homeschool 4 Me. What other items can you get to dance?
Make soap souffle as seen on Steve Spangler Science.
After talking about liquids and solids (and finding them in your own home), create oobleck as seen on Babble Dabble Do. Is it a liquid, or is it a solid?
Learn about frost by making some indoor frost as seen on Little Bin for Little Hands.
Make your own homemade butter in a jar as seen on Happy Hooligans.
On a recent trip to the Philippines, I was able to see the Oldest Lock and Door in the Philippines.
Mr. Locksmith Terry Whin-Yates Oldest Lock in the Philippines
The oldest documented house in the Philippines was built between 1675 to 1730 and is located in Barangay Parian, Cebu City, Philippines.
Considered to be one of the oldest residential houses in the Philippines, the Yap-Sandiego Ancestral House was built sometime between 1675 and 1700. It was originally owned by a Chinese merchant named Don Juan Yap and his wife, Doña Maria Florido.
The materials used for the construction of the Yap-Sandiego Ancestral House were coral stones that were glued together with egg whites. The roof is made of “Tisa” clay which weighs 1 kilogram in each piece. The wooden parts were made of “balayong” and “tugas” (molave) are considered to be the hardest wood of all time.
The Lock is a very simple wooden construction but it does the trick to secure the door.
Mr. Locksmith Oldest Lock in the Philippines
Mr. Locksmith House in the Philippines
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MyGolfSpy is known for the most extensive golf club tests anywhere. We’re thorough as hell, but admittedly we do have a gap in our data. The truth of the matter is we don’t have any testers who can pound it tree-fiddy. So to fill in the holes and round out our data, we flew in YouTube sensation Ace from fried eggs golf.
When your swing is a sweet as Ace’s and you can bomb the ball 350, it’s hard to improve. Can you really expect better? Hell yes, you can. Watch as the MyGolfSpy team finds Ace an extra 16 yards. I’m talkin’ about tree-six-six, yo!
We can all do with an energy boost sometimes, but store-bought energy drinks are far from the best option. The side effects of popular energy drinks may surprise you. Below I’ll show you how I use natural energy boosters, the scary side effects in energy drinks, and why you won’t see me with one in...
I can get my kids to eat almost anything with ketchup or homemade ranch dressing on top… or if I season it with taco seasoning! In fact, I know many moms who keep taco seasoning packets on hand to use in the thousands of kid-friendly ways suggested by Pinterest. I lived in Texas for much of my...
Today I am here with Yarone Goren who is helping pioneer the future of healthcare. If he has his way, the days of waiting in the doctor’s office (and waiting… and waiting…) should soon be over. Yarone cofounded SteadyMD to give people an on-demand and personalized healthcare option for quality primary care completely online. With SteadyMD...
When it comes to training aids, you can safely split them into three categories. The first category we can safely call eye-rollers: even the most casual of golfers can look at these things and think what kind of a chucklehead would spend his money on that? And admit it, we’ve all bought at least one.
The training aids in the second category are, in fact, fairly useful, but a creative golfer could probably figure out how to sorta-kinda-almost make the same thing on his own. The Putting Stick is a prime example – a flat, plastic contraption to help groove your putting stroke. It works very well, and if you crave instruction, bells, whistles, and testimonials, you’d be happy to buy it, and it would probably help you. If you don’t value any of that stuff, a yardstick might get you most of the way there.
The last category is the smallest and the toughest to crack: training aids that actually, you know, work, and have some real science behind them. The DST Compressor is one example, the Orange Whip is another, but very few ever reach this hallowed ground.
SuperSpeed Golf is knocking on the door of this rather exclusive club for two reasons; it works and, more interestingly, as a product, it very likely isn’t what you think it is.
It’s a whole lot more.
What Is SuperSpeed?
Once you take equipment out of the equation (heck, even with equipment in the equation), the only way to hit the ball farther is to swing faster.
Not harder. Faster.
There’s a physical fitness and strength aspect to swinging the club faster, but all things being equal, the key to increasing your swing speed may, in fact, lie right between your ears.
SuperSpeed calls it Overspeed Training, and it involves swinging three weighted shafts as aggressively as you can to prove to your neurological systems that your body can move that fast.
“We first learned of the concept – called overload/underload training – in 2012 at the World Golf Fitness Summit,” says Michael Napoleon, President and Co-founder of SuperSpeed Golf. “A brilliant coach named Tom House talked about the work he was doing with baseball pitchers using overweight and underweight baseballs to help them increase pitching speed.”
What Napoleon is talking about is resetting your neurological wiring and training your brain to understand that you can swing faster.
“You’re actually able to – by swinging underweight and overweight clubs – make the body move significantly faster than it does during the golf swing,” says Kyle Shay, Napoleon’s business partner and the other co-founder of SuperSpeed Golf. “You’re doing a physical thing swinging our clubs, but you’re actually increasing the speed at which your brain signals to your muscles to move during the golf swing.”
It’s an interesting concept, and it’s important to understand it’s more than just swinging a heavy club. Napoleon and Shay are both PGA teaching pros with very different backgrounds, but they share a similar passion for turning complicated concepts into something you and I can get our heads around and actually use.
To get to the root of it all, we have to go back to music school.
The Joy Of Sax
“I’m a golf coach, but all my formal education and degrees are in music performance,” says Napoleon, who holds a doctorate in Saxophone Performance from Arizona State. “We spent a lot of time detailing how people should practice and how people learn. Should they practice in little bursts and take breaks? Should they be going for two-hour blocks? How many days a week should they practice, and how much time each day?”
As a golfer, however, Napoleon found that while his teaching pro knew the game, he wasn’t able to provide a specific practice or drill program that would work for him. That spark led him away from the sax and into the golf world.
An accomplished amateur golfer who eventually burned out, Shay earned his physiology bones working in a rehab center teaching corrective exercise. The two ultimately met up in Chicago and formed a teaching center called Catalyst Golf. Their meeting with House led to testing the overload/underload concept on their students, and the results wound up being life-changing.
“We had 56 or 57 people go through testing,” says Napoleon. “I think we had 98% of them see at least a 3 or 4 miles-per-hour speed gain just after the initial session. As soon as we saw those results, we knew we had something. We didn’t know why it was all happening yet, but we were confident we had something that was going to work for just about anybody that picked it up.”
The Need For Speed
So what, exactly, is SuperSpeed Golf, and how is it any different from swinging a weighted club?
A SuperSpeed Golf set features three gripped shafts with different weights on the end. The lightest is 20% lighter than a standard driver, the next one is 10% lighter than your driver, and the third is 5% heavier. A training session consists of three sets of 10 reps swinging each club as fast as humanly possible, starting with the lightest and working your way up to the heaviest.
“If we start with something 20% lighter than their normal driver, we know their kinematic sequence (legs-torso-pelvis-arm and club) is going to be the same,” says Napoleon. “They’re going to get the same recruitment out of the ground, legs, and pelvis throughout the entire sequence as they do during a normal swing. The brain is thinking that this motion is the same motor pattern as their golf swing, but because of the reduced resistance and reduced weight, it can go a lot faster.”
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Napoleon and Shay say a typical 100 MPH swinger will swing the lightest SuperSpeed club around 118-119 MPH. When they jump to the middle weight club, speed will drop to around 115 MPH. By the time they hit the heaviest club, they’ll still be swinging faster.
“Because we did this neuro-muscular speed reset with the light clubs, we’ll see that player who started at 100 MPH swing the heavier club usually around 110 to 112 MPH, significantly faster than their normal golf swing,” says Napoleon.
“We do like to finish with the lightest club at the end, just to retrigger that neurological system to the faster speeds.”
Standard protocol includes normal swings, step-forward swings (think a high leg kick baseball swing), a Happy Gilmore type swing and opposite side swinging.
“What we’re trying to do with that is develop the deceleration chain of the golf swing,” says Shay. “You can only accelerate as fast as you can decelerate, so in a golf swing when you get past impact into follow-through, you have to stabilize into that left hip/left leg so you can stop the pelvis and stop the swing. The better we can post or stabilize into that lead side, the better we can create clubhead speed.”
Faster vs. Harder
Ever wonder how a shrimpy guy like Justin Thomas can hit the ball as far as he does? Or how a bigger guy like Ernie Els – The Big Easy – hits the ball so far with such an effortless swing?
“They’re swinging in a very efficient sequence,” says Napoleon. “They’re able to stabilize those segments of the swing very well, which adds to the whole fluidity of the motion.”
When we amateurs try to hit the ball farther, we tend to just grip the club tighter and swing the club harder. And more often than not, that throws the whole swing sequence out of whack.
“Once you see that acceleration start in the lower body, the whole kinematic sequence happens in a specific pecking order. The pelvis is going to get to its max speed and then it has to stop. What we found is the faster the segment is able to stabilize in the kinematic sequence, the more energy gets transferred to the next segment in the series – to the torso and then to the arm and club and then, ultimately, to the ball.”
Both Shay and Napoleon shy away from hard when talking about the golf swing, opting instead to use the more descriptive aggressive or fast.
“As a coach, I’m more of a minimalist in all this,” says Napoleon. “I don’t want to explain to the player how to make the club move faster. I want them, from a discovery standpoint, to make three or four swings during the training, see on radar which ones went faster, and then they start to learn what pieces made the club move faster. That’s how you teach complex bio-mechanics to someone without overloading them with a bunch of information they don’t need.”
Speed Racer
So you may be asking, why the heck don’t you just swing a heavier club, or why not just swing a driver upside down to create more speed? Fair questions both and, as it turns out, baseball studies have refuted to the notion that weighted bats, or clubs, do anything to promote swing speed.
“We found that when you get above 5% heavier than your regular driver, you’ll start to see swing speed actually slow down,” says Napoleon. “TPI did a great study on this disproving the ‘donut on a bat’ theory.”
“They had collegiate and high-level professionals do their normal donut bat routine while on the on-deck circle and tested to see if that increased or decreased bat speed. On average they’d see a 30% drop in bat speed, and it would take them three or four swings to get back to normal. You have to be careful when swinging something heavy for too many reps.” Michael Napoleon, SuperSpeed Golf
Going too light is a problem, as well, such as when you swing an alignment rod or turn a driver upside down.
“You’ll start to see the sequencing change quite a bit,” says Napoleon. “You’ll see arm and hand speed increase, but there’s not enough weight on the end for your brain to go ‘okay, I need to use my lower body and my torso to go faster, too.'”
“We tested to see how light you could go without being too light, and how heavy you could go without being too heavy so you could maintain an increase in speed without altering the kinematic sequence.”
Using a fan or a parachute to increase resistance are just other ways to make the club heavy without adding any actual weight to it. Napoleon says anytime you try to swing something heavier than your normal club, the extra inertia is going to make it harder to make the club change direction, accelerate or even move.
“Your body can’t do it as quickly,” says Napoleon. “You may go pick up your regular club and it’s going to feel lighter, but neurologically your body actually remembers the speed it was going with that heavy club, and it will actually swing slower.”
Yeah, But Does It Work?
Another fair question. SuperSpeed Golf is finding its way into the bags of dozens of Tour pros, including Phil Mickelson, Graeme McDowell, Xander Schauffele and Kevin Na, as well as dozens of Champions, Web.com, LPGA and Symetra Tour players.
SuperSpeed’s baseball training has made it to the major leagues, with 8 teams using it from the low minors to the big leagues, including the reigning World Series Champion Houston Astros.
“A lot of guys get so much more joy out of playing golf,” says Shay. “They’re not struggling, they’re hitting it past their buddies. It’s gratifying to see guys that have lost some club speed over the years, your 50+ golfer, getting some of that speed back. Now it’s two clubs less into greens, or they’re not hitting hybrids into every par 4, or they don’t have to move up a tee box. We hear it all the time.”
One recent testimonial came from a customer in Boston who had just won a fight with cancer.
“He was just getting to the point where he could go back out and play,” says Napoleon. “He played with the same group of guys he’d played with for 20 years, and he wasn’t able to hit the ball far enough to even play from the forward tees. He got our stuff and worked with it for four or five months, and he was finally able to get back to where he could play golf again.”
“That could have been a guy that would’ve quit playing the game because he lost too much distance. Now he’s back to playing golf and having fun with his friends every week.”
Everyone wants to hit it farther – it’s the rock upon which the equipment industry is built. SuperSpeed Golf isn’t going to promise you 20 or 30 more yards, but they do say that if you follow the program, you will see an immediate and – if you follow the training protocols they provide – permanent increase in swing speed.
“That’s the really cool thing,” says Napoleon. “Just about everybody gets a gain along the way because most people have never done any kind of purely neurological speed training, especially in golf. It’s like if you’ve never gone to the gym and then started lifting dumbbells – you’ll start seeing results right off the bat.”
“There’s a lot going on under the surface that makes this very complex,” adds Shay. “But we’ve tried to make it as simple as possible. Can you do eight minutes three times a week and just follow a few simple steps?”
My own experience with SuperSpeed Golf falls into the so far, so good category and I am noticing drives getting a bit longer as the season wears on. But I’m also getting some odd looks at the driving range, which I presume are related to SuperSpeed protocols.
“I bet half those people will start researching online,” says Napoleon. “If you’re doing that while warming up and then go blast it past your buddies, I bet they’ll all be doing it within a week.”
For more information, videos, and testamonials, visit SuperSpeedGolf.com.
I’ve posted before about why we don’t use scented candles and what we use instead. One of my favorite alternatives is to use an essential oil diffuser, and many people asked what type of diffuser I use and recommend. I’m not an herbalist or aromatherapy expert, but I have tried many types of diffusers and I wanted...
At the conclusion of every Most Wanted Test, we publish our results. We share the data we collect and rank the winners. It’s simple and straightforward, but some of you have asked for a bit more insight. We hear you.
In this video, the MyGolfSpy Staff goes beyond the data. Adam, Sam, and Harry discuss how we test putters, tackle some of the myths surrounding the importance of how a putter looks, and give you an overview of why we think the Top 5 finishers in the mallet category performed as well as they did.
Make walking on a line even more fun with these two fun tweaks. Your toddler or preschooler will love these two simple line walking activities!
With two kids in special education and developmental therapies, Member of the Month Babi started searching. She was looking for hands-on ways to support her children at home.
“My kids were in speech therapy, occupational therapy, and special ed,” explained Babi. “So I was always searching and looking for things to help them.”
The Activity Room makes hands-on learning really easy and connects nicely to what Babi’s kids are doing at school.
“I do the activities that me and the therapist are working on, may it be muscle tone or sensory,” she said.
Whatever is being done in the therapies, Babi searches the weekly activity plans for connections. If it’s not there, she dives back into the Archives to pull up a different idea.
Then, she adds the new activities to her printed collection to grab-and-go in the future.
“On The Activity Room, I find plenty to help them,” she shared. “I normally just print and laminate all the activities and keep it in a file.”
Before joining The Activity Room, Babi was unsure about trying new activities.
“Sometimes, I would see an activity and be like, ‘Wow. That kid did it that way,'” shared Babi. “If I did that activity and my kid did it differently, I thought I did it wrong.”
Now, Babi is full confidence as she explores and learns alongside her children in The Activity Room.
“After The Activity Room, I love seeing how they do the same activity and the results are all different,” Babi explained. “They’re different kids. They don’t have to do it the same way!”
Let’s Meet Babi
How many kids do you have and how old are they?
2 kids, twins 3 years old
How long have you been in The Activity Room?
Almost 1 year and I want to stay!
What is your favorite activity you’ve done in The Activity Room?
Sensory walk
What’s your favorite thing to do with your kids when you get a few moments?
Paint
What’s your best tip for doing activities with your kids?
Just do it!
If you think its to hard DO IT. If you think its too easy DO IT.
No expectation, no pressure to perform. Just have fun.
If you were to tell a friend about The Activity Room, what would you say to them?
(The Activity Room is) easy and fun!
Before, I had Googled the entire internet for activity. Now, I search less and do more
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Creating fun memories and learning at the same time!
Two Simple Line Walking Activities:
Walking on a line is one of my go-to activities! This is a big, big favorite with my kids!
Simple line walking activities are great for building balance and coordination. Adding in some fun twists can pull in color matching, counting, or other skills, too!
I love because it helps them with OT and I can make this activity more or less challenging change it up. I can also make one activity into at least 10 different ones.
One thing we’ve done is use an egg on a spoon and have them walk the line. This works on balance and coordination.
You can substitute any round object, like a ball or plastic pretend-food orange, for the actual egg.
I also might give them a bowl of Legos that match with the colors of the tape.
Then, I have them pick a Lego piece and walk the same color line. When we walk all the Lego pieces to the end we just sit and build.
So much fun!!!
What are your favorite simple yet adaptable activities? Share them in the comments!
You might just end up a Member of the Month in the future!
Making popsicles from scratch is always on our summer bucket list and now that the kids are older one they handle on their own. These popsicles have it all over the ones at the store, with real-food ingredients like coconut water kefir, coconut milk, and diced mango. They’re a cool and creamy summertime treat that we...
Get preschoolers interested in learning how things work with 30 super easy and way cool science experiments! These easy science experiments for preschoolers are sure to be a hit at your house.
Science experiments are always a hit in our house! There are so many to try.
Some more difficult than others. Some are way beyond my kids.
So I put together this list of science experiments that are specifically for preschoolers.
30 Oh So Cool Science Experiments for Preschoolers
Preschoolers may not really understand the science behind the experiments. However, they can start to build these concepts just by doing these activities with you!
Learning about science begins by thinking its super cool and super fun.
And wanting to do it again and again. It’s about trying and testing and observing what happens.
One thing I love about science experiments is the opportunity for failure.
If you’ve ever done them, you’ll know that they don’t always work 100% of the time. Especially not the first time in some cases.
This can be a learning opportunity for the kids. Use that!
I scoured the internet to find cool science experiments that were easy enough for preschoolers!
There are lots of just plain cool science experiments for preschoolers, but also a section of ones using baking soda. Because baking soda experiments are always, always, always a hit. Plus a lot of water experiments that preschoolers always find fun!
Essential Science Experiments for Preschoolers
There are just some experiments that every child, and family, should try. These essential activities are perfect ways to dip your toes into science experiments for preschoolers!
Easy Baking Soda Experiments for Preschoolers
There’s something fun about fizzy baking soda experiments. Your preschooler will love the extra excitement of these activities!
Fun Water Experiments for Preschoolers
Add water to just about any preschool activity idea for a sure-fire hit. Try these water experiments for super simple fun!
Do you have a science experiment your preschooler just loves?? Share it in the comments!
Seven Dreamers started in 1957 as a company called Super Resin. As it developed industry-leading technologies in composite materials with industrial and aerospace applications, the company mantra of “creating things the world has never seen” led to some remarkable achievements. After becoming the global leader in molding carbon fiber reinforced plastics (CFRPs) in the 1970s, Super Resin produced parts for Japan’s Hayabusa satellite project in the 1990s.
The company vision of seven centers of excellence throughout the world, focuses on everything from advancements in aerospace engineering, to sleep devices and even a fully automated laundry folding machine which can separate according to fabric type and member of the family to which each article of clothing belongs. It’s the company that creates the ” I can’t believe a company can actually make that” category of products, and as of 2014, Seven Dreamers broached the uber-premium golf shaft market and quickly assumed the title of most expensive production golf shaft in the world.
In every consumer market there exists products which unapologetically price out the majority of would-be consumers – and it’s also nothing new to golf, though, until the advent of PXG, it was a dynamic more in play in Asia (Japan and Korea largely) where $75K can buy one a full bag of Honma Beres Five-Star series clubs and a whole bunch of 24K gold-plated street credit.
The eye-popping prices on such items serve to attract a clientele for whom several zeros one way or another determine how many pairs of Jimmy Choo shoes to purchase and whether or not it’s getting old to ski Vail every single winter break. First world problems indeed.
But there are also supporting technology and production processes which are more expensive – and theoretically lead to improved performance, though not necessarily by the same magnitude as the difference in price – even when compared to products which are generally thought of as premium. Regardless, it’s a best of the best portion of the market which sits somewhere beyond typical designations like premium and elite. The rules are different in these spaces because the customers operate under a different set of principles which can be contrary to how the majority of markets operate.
UBER-PREMIUM SHAFTS
Actual shaft manufacturing is more technical than the following description, however in the interest of brevity, the common process begins with sheets of prepreg (material of combined resin (glue) and carbon fiber) wrapped in various orientations around a steel mandrel. Depending on the desired weight, flex and internal/external dimensions of the shaft, each section (industry types call them flags) of prepreg is placed in a specific pattern along the mandrel.
Once complete, the layers of prepreg are wrapped with a thin, shrinkable tape and baked in an oven under approximately 1 atm of pressure. As the sheets are heated, resin is allowed to bond the layers together. Then, the tape and mandrel are removed, and surface inconsistencies are sanded away, leaving what is, in theory anyway, a perfectly round shaft. Finally, the shaft is painted. The net result is any mass-produced shaft, even those with premium price tags, built within a range of spec tolerances (weight, flex, and torque). There’s plenty of good-natured debate around the degree to which changes in said specs impact performance, but the reality is the tighter the tolerances, the more expensive it is to manufacture.
Seven Dreamers primary point of distinction is a unique and proprietary process which, it asserts, results in shafts with superior construction and performance and unparalleled consistency from shaft to shaft.
Seven Dreamers uses an autoclaverather than oven-baking each shaft. This allows Seven Dreamers to use shaft molds (rather than shrinkable tape) inside the autoclave which place each shaft under 6-10 atm of pressure, squeezing out any excess resin. The layers are cured, leaving a hardened, perfectly round shaft. Because the final product doesn’t require any grinding or coating, the aesthetic is entirely inconspicuous and void of any inconsistencies. Without any paint, the shaft is a naked carbon weave with a decidedly generic “Seven Dreamers” monogram and serial number. If it looks unfinished, it is only because we’re conditioned to see the final paint scheme as something OEMs often do to differentiate product and garner attention from TV/media audiences.
The real substantive difference is not that the process yields shafts manufactured to exceedingly tight tolerances but that it helps to mitigate the usual trade-off of weight and stability. Any company can make a shaft both heavy and stiff. It’s like asking the head chef at a fine French restaurant for a PB & J.
However, to achieve a low launch, low spin profile in a sub-70 gram package, which retains ample stability and a signature feel; well that comes at a cost – and a rather steep one.
THIS SHAFT:
I generally fit best in tip-stiff driver shafts in the 75-gram range (think Project X HZDRUS Black, Mitsubishi Diamana Whiteboard/’Ahina). Any lighter and dispersion suffers. Much heavier and swing speed (which maxes out around 112 mph) drops off drastically. This Seven Dreamers T-series shaft is 67 grams but plays with the stability of heavier premium shafts, particularly in the tip section. The butt section, if anything, felt a bit soft, comparable to the Graphite Design AD-DI 7x.
The decrease in weight should theoretically lead to increased peak swing speed, but based on numbers gathered from my Foresight GC2, I didn’t experience any statistically significant increase in swing speed, though my peak ball speed was 1-2 MPH higher than typical. Dispersion wasn’t appreciably better or worse. Some golfers are very sensitive to the total weight of a golf club and moving 8-10 grams either direction could be a major adjustment, though I suspect it’s easier to adjust to a lighter shaft than a heavier one. Depending on what bend profile a consumer requires, Seven Dreamers offers 33 different shafts (ranging from 40 grams to 80 grams) in the stock, T-series ($1200 MSRP) which is now available in North America through select, high-end fitters.
If the need is a one-off bespoke shaft custom built for only your swing, Seven Dreamers does that too, but it will require a visit to one of two studios in Tokyo and $2500.
RATIONAL OR RATIONALE?
Seven Dreamer’s story is one of both quantitative and qualitative appeal. From a materials and process standpoint, everything Seven Dreamers does is undeniably premium and given the plethora of available shafts; this isn’t a play to attract primarily high swing-speed players. That said, any number of shaft OEM’s (e.g., Mitsubishi Chemical and Fujikura) can make this same claim, though one can debate whether or not Seven Dreamers proprietary production process is empirically better than that of long-standing market leaders. That said, in my individual testing, the Seven Dreamers shaft performed commensurate with other premium shafts I’ve tested, which one would expect given the price tag. Pragmatically, it offered a titch more ball speed but at a lighter total weight.
That fact alone won’t satisfy the concrete sequential, value-based consumers but for potential buyers for whom cost is of no consequence, the criteria are different, and the rules are such that most of us can’t relate – hence the qualitative nature of uber-premium products. When the topic is $38,000 House of Testoni shoes, $500 M yachts or a Gulfstream G-650, it’s an entirely different beast where ironically, price really has very little to do with the purchasing decision.
It’s about buying a brand and investing in that identity as much as it is about the product. It’s a commitment to be able to state without reservation your product is by some measure, the absolute best in the world – and it’s not necessary that others agree.
Seven Dreamers isn’t well-known, even by the gearhead metric and one long-tenured industry insider had reservations around whether Seven Dreamers will become a mainstay in the evolving ultra-premium segment of the market. While it continues plans to reach deeper into the North American market, I wouldn’t expect Seven Dreamers to dilute the price point or do anything which marginalizes the exclusivity of the product or name. As a brand, it’s the consummate wild card. Tour players are dabbling more in the ultra-premium shaft space. If one of them win while bagging a Seven Dreamers shaft (Charl Schwartzel nearly did at The Players this year) it could create momentum similar to what we’ve seen with TPT, which was in Jason Day’s driver when he won the Wells Fargo earlier this year and in Justin Rose’s bag during several worldwide wins late in 2017.
Beyond the exclusive nature of Seven Dreamers shafts, it begs a fundamental yet divisive question – Is this the holy grail of shaft manufacturing or is it yet another attempt to create a distinction without any real difference?
