President Barack Obama proves once again that he is quite the engaging fellow as he hosted the annual White House Science Fair this week and took a shot – literally – at sampling some of the creative works of our nation’s youth.
Obama became somewhat infatuated with an odd-looking mechanism that was an air cannon used to shoot marshmallows.
Obama commented to the mechanism’s young creator, Joe Hudy:
Let’s try it. This is great!
As the air cannon’s creator, a 14-year-old eighth-grade student, loaded up the marshmallows, Obama instructed everyone in the room to move off to the side to avoid any injuries. The student then began pumping the air pump but had difficulty getting the proper pressure in the air cannon for a marshmallow to fly.
That’s when Obama offered to help out - first with one hand, and then with two. Eventually, the president got the pressure up to the required pressure of 30. With the pressure up to standard, Hudy released the marshmallow – which he said could fly as much as 176 feet - and it flew across the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House.
Obama joked that the Secret Service weren’t going to be happy about what they were doing. Obama took the young scientist’s ‘business card’ and quipped, 'I may need it.'
It was apparently a great, memorable experience for the young visitors of the White House, and, no doubt, a good time for President Obama as well.
Source: YouTube, Chicago Tribune
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