Of course you can. It's all about harnessing the sun's energy for delicious goodness. It's pretty easy and can be done with some simple items from around the house to create a solar oven.

Scouts have tested it and found out it works in temperatures as low as 10 degrees, as long as you have direct sunlight.

Build a solar oven using cardboard boxes, lined with foil and black paper. This could be clean pizza boxes if you can get some from your local pizza store, otherwise any cardboard can be cut to size.

For the process to work, you need to cover as much of the inside of the box as possible (including the flap) with aluminium foil to direct as much heat as possible to the centre of the cooker.

Next step is to put the solar oven in a sunny location to warm up. Make the s'mores by stacking marshmallow on a biscuit with a piece of chocolate on top.

Place the s'mores in the solar oven and wait for everything to melt. Waiting is the hardest part! Cooking time can take up to half an hour depending on the weather conditions.

The oven works on the principle of collecting heat energy and retaining or directing it for cooking. The aluminium foil captures the sunlight; the heat builds up, warming up the air inside the box. This creates a nice hot box, or greenhouse effect, within the sealed solar oven. The actual cooking surface is the black paper because black retains heat well.

As heat is retained, the air inside the oven heats up. And in next to no time you're eating delicious, melted-by-the-sun s'mores!

Scouts is not just about knotting, camping, learning navigation and bush skills. Scouts and Guides from across the ACT and surrounding region have been getting their hands dirty during National Science Week by taking part in SciScouts 2017: Environment – Trees, Bees & Seeds.

More than 1200 young people aged six to 30 years are participating in more than 20 hands-on science activities that align with the themes of the World Scout Environment Badge: clean water, natural habitats, minimising harmful substances, sustainability and natural hazards.

For more information, visit scienceweek.net.au and scoutsact.com.au.

Response by: Kate and James Lehane, SciScouts Team, Scouts Australia (ACT Branch)

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