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Colorado School of Mines awarded 2013 Marsh W. White Outreach Award

OCT 01, 2013
Colorado School of Mines awarded 2013 Marsh W. White Outreach Award

Colorado School of Mines awarded 2013 Marsh W. White Outreach Award

Zone and Chapter: Colorado School of Mines

Project

Project Name: Partnerships in Physics IV: An Exciting Catapult Outreach Project

Project Leaders: Linnea Jones & Michael Slater

Chapter Advisors: Chuck Stone

Project Description: Partners in Physics is a fun two-weekend outreach event, aimed at reaching students of all ages. For the first weekend, middle and high school students are taught about catapults and projectile motion. Then for the second weekend, SPS and our “Partners in Physics,” the middle and high schoolers, come back and teach elementary students the basics of catapults and how to build their own small catapults to take home.

Project Media:

Project Proposal (.pdf, 537 kb) Final Report (.pdf, 466 kb)