California State University-Chico awarded 2016 Marsh W. White Outreach Award
OCT 01, 2016
California State University-Chico awarded 2016 Marsh W. White Outreach Award
Zone and Chapter: California State University-Chico
Project
Project Name: The Annual SPS Pumpkin Drop
Project Leaders: David Ramirez
Chapter Advisors: Eric Ayars
Project Description: The Pumpkin Drop reenacts Galileo Galilee’s Tower of Pisa Experiment. On Halloween, SPS members dress as Einstein, Aristotle, Newton, and Galileo to explain the evolution of the Rule of Falling Bodies as other SPS members demonstrate the rule by dropping pumpkins from the fifth floor of CSU Chico’s Butte Hall.
Project Media:
Project Proposal (.pdf, 537 kb) Final Report (.pdf, 466 kb)