Holmes Students Build Circuits In Edison's Workshop

DARIEN, Conn. -- Fourth graders at Holmes Elementary School recently got to explore circuitry in their classrooms.

Holmes School fourth graders Ronan Mirsky and Rex Kelley test batteries for electrical energy by touching metal clips to their battery ports to produce a buzzing sound.
Photo Credit: *Christina Galligan*

Holmes School fourth graders Maggie Curran, June Qin, Apara Chandavarkar and Chloe Leimgruber discover a series circuit, a type of circuit with one path for the electrical current to flow, by combing two batteries and two lightbulbs.
Photo Credit: *Christina Galligan*

04/05/2016 4:30 a.m.

The students built both parallel and series circuits, as part of High Touch High Tech's program Edison's Workshop.

High Touch High Tech -- with its logo of "Science Made Fun!" -- provides interactive events at schools, camps and parties. Elementary programs offered by the Connecticut incarnation include "Biome Sweet Home," "Get Buggy" and "Weather or Not."

Holmes Elementary has students from kindergarten through fifth grade. It's one of Darien's five elementary school.

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