Rocket+tree=rocketrySeminole Ridge physics students showcase their STEM skills on Tuesday, November 24, 2009.
Erich Landstrom’s physics student will test their “Fizzix Funday” research projects to either “Drop It,” “Build It,” or “Launch It” – by creating the ideal container to protect an egg from a 3-story drop, building the best roller coaster model, or blasting off the ultimate water bottle rocket.
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education is increasingly being appreciated as the key to assuring that America cultivates a new generation of experts as well, with the skills to create the new green technologies we need to strengthen our economy in the 21st Century. Science and technology are responsible for a very large portion of this nation’s economic growth over the past 50 years. And scientists and engineers today are in the best position to solve many of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and the world.
8 AM - drop it: design the lightest package to protect a raw egg from cracking after a five-story free fall; (schedule subject to change)
10 AM - launch it: put together a projectile around an ordinary 2 liter plastic bottle with the greatest air aloft “hang time” launched by compressed air and water.
12 Noon - build it: create a coaster with the longest ride time to go from the Start position to the Finish (with bonus points for loops and attraction)
Watch the Fizzix Funday 2008 video
