Soft Hand Frame | English
Channel: Arvind Gupta
Date: 2016-12-21

Hi! My name is Rick Hall. I am the founder of a company called IGNITE, based in Nottingham, England. We try to get more creativity in science lessons in schools. I have been doing some experiment at the IUCAA Science Center in Pune, India. Some of these experiments are about our senses. Today I will show you an amazing experiment about our sense of TOUCH. This experiment is about how to make your hands soft or the SOFT HAND EXPERIMENT. I first found this science experiment in a museum in New Mexico, America. It is a very simple device. I just took a picture frame and fixed some chicken mesh to cover the frame. For this experiment to really work well I really need someone else to help me. Pradnya please come over and help me with this experiment. We will do this experiment together. I hate to ask you but do you wish that your hands were soft and smooth all the time. I want you to put both your hands across the chicken mesh while I hold the frame. Now keeping your hands together and make slow circles with your hands. Then we’ll see what happens. Your hands will go soft and smooth. Now Pradnya’s hands are the softest she has ever felt. Actually, they are soft as pillows;  soft as marsh mellows. The other children can try this experiment too and feel their hands have become really, really soft.

This work is supported by IUCAA (www.iucaa.in) and TATA Trust (http://www.tatatrusts.org/) and (www.tata.com/aboutus/sub_index/Tata-trusts)

TATA Trust: Education is one of the key focus areas for Tata Trusts, aiming towards enabling access of quality education to the underprivileged population in India. To facilitate quality in teaching and learning of Science education through workshops, capacity building and resource creation, Tata Trusts have been supporting Muktangan Vigyan Shodhika (MVS), IUCAA's Children’s Science Centre, since inception. To know more about other initiatives of Tata Trusts, please visit www.tatatrusts.org

Credits:,Ashok Rupner, Manish Jain, Pradnya Pujari, Shivaji Mane, Jyoti Hiremath, Arvind Gupta, Rick Hall