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Rhodes College awarded 2019 Blake Lilly Prize

OCT 01, 2019
Rhodes College awarded 2019 Blake Lilly Prize

Rhodes College awarded 2019 Blake Lilly Prize

Zone and Chapter: Rhodes College

Project

Project Name: Hovercraft Intiative

Project Description: Rhodes College created an outreach initiative focused on engaging underprivileged elementary students in the Memphis area. In an effort to inspire future physicists that may not had previously considered pursuing physics, they built hovercrafts with students and let them ride around on a large hovercraft to demonstrate a fun application of physics.