I will say when you get put in the Gifted and Talented Program in middle school in the US all sorts of amazing opportunities abound for the teenager with little sense and way too much book knowledge.
Let's see... Aluminum powder grenades set off near the seismograph sensors, writing basic code on early Apple IIe's with 5.25 floppies for storage instead of tape recorders and cassettes, learning that magnets were a great way to mess with your rivals programs when put near their floppies, and use of a Gammtor to do radiation experiments (yes, I studied the effects of gamma rays on tropical fish as a kid).
Friends doing g-force experiments using model rockets and lab rats, it never ended well. RTFM kids when building your rocket. I don't even want to talk about trying to use a centrifuge as g-force simulator. That was just sick and wrong even for my underdeveloped sense of right and wrong at that age.
That is before you start hammering off the tips of CO2 cartridges to see who could get them deepest into the basement wall or roman candle fights at a remote coastal estuary station at night.
Thank you Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) research lab, it is a miracle I survived my childhood.
