In case you missed it, President Barack Obama got hands-on at Tuesday’s White House Science Fair. Check out this video of him firing a marshmallow cannon (“the Secret Service is going to be mad at me about this,” Obama joked before launching a marshmallow across the State Dining Room): 

Of course, DC808 was partial to a different project — the one that came out of Kohala Middle SchoolRead more about Hawaii students’ participation in the fair. 

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