Take a Guess: How Many Water Drops Fit on a Penny?

Thursday, September 30th, 2021—Syracuse Academy of Science and Citizenship 6^th grade students conducted a science experiment that leaves us all wondering, how does that make any cents? Late September, these future scientists were learning about the scientific method and tested out the hypothesis, ‘How Many Water Drops Fit on a Penny?’ For their experiment, students used a pipette, water and of course a penny and counted each of the water droplets that formed on each side of the penny. The results are shocking!

On average, the total number of water droplets that can fit on the head side of a penny is 27. On the flip side, tails, a total number of water droplets that can fit is 18.