Lower Campus Mathematicians Visit the Rippowam Applied Physics Laboratory

On Monday, November 30 and Wednesday, December 2, the fourth grade math teams took their velocity calculating skills and visited the Upper Campus to collect data for analysis. 
The teams built and tested helium-filled launch vehicles, trying to achieve the slowest, continuously-rising design. Making a slow rising vehicle is a real challenge, especially when the only variables are the ballast, and the helium leaking from the balloons. These fourth graders formed teams that were resourceful, motivated, and resilient. In spite of the technical hurdles, all teams came to the final test site to demonstrate a working launch vehicle with recorded test data to calculate velocity.

Each year the fourth graders make a few trips to the Upper Campus to visit the Rippowam Applied Physics Laboratory. The activity is part of a joint campus program to combine math, science, and engineering while giving our Lower Campus children a glimpse of Upper Campus science curriculum.
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