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__**STEM FAIR PROJECT:**__

How Much Weight Can A Boat Float?

__**PROCEDURE:**__ First, use the aluminum foil and tape to construct at least five boat hulls with different sizes and shapes and build some different boats using the same amount of aluminum foil for each boat.

__**HYPOTHESIS:**__ I believe that the bigger the boat, the more it can hold

__**MATERIALS:**__
 * Aluminum foil
 * Tape
 * Permanent marker (Optional)
 * Metric ruler
 * A sink, tub or a bucket
 * Water
 * Pennies (at least 200)

__**RESEARCH:**__ When a boat or a light object is in the water it can float, but when you put pressure on to that object, it starts to sink and when you put to much weight on the boat, then it sinks. But it is about what is in the boat and what the boat is made out of. If the boat is made out of paper than it will sink really easily, but if the boat is made out of metal, like regular boats than it would be a hard time to sink it, not it is what you put in the boat. If the object is heavy, depending on what the boat is made out of it will probably stay floating. Now if you put a 5-10 pound object on a foil boat then it is most likely going to sink, now if you put something heavy, but not as heavy to sink it, we will find out the point where it sinks or dose not sink.

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