Re: [Phys-l] Snow tubing lab

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

"... he first time a school has went to a ski resort to learn physics  
in Ohio." and

"... to calculate physics problems and formulas."

Bravo, but not to the illiterate reporters.

bc, not expected to be literate.


On 2008, Feb 28, , at 15:00, Ken Fox wrote:

> Bravo!
>
> Ken Fox
>
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Dwight K. Souder <
> crvhs_dks@crestview-richland.k12.oh.us> wrote:
>
> > Greetings everyone.  I apologize not writing for a while, but I  
> > wanted
> > to thank everyone who helped me with the idea of the snow-tubing  
> > physics
> > lab.  It was a HUGE hit!  We had 2 newspapers and our local news  
> > station
> > came and reported the event.  Snow Trails, the local ski resort, was
> > very helpful and accommodating for us.  When I came to school the
> > following day, I was called to the office for my autograph.  I  
> > knew it
> > was a joke and figured the articles would be somewhere between the
> > articles of how someone found an image of Elvis' left thumb on a  
> > walnut
> > and the article of how to make pine-cones into back-scratchers.
> > Noooo...it made the entire front page of one of the newspapers.   
> > It even
> > beat out the articles of the presidential candidates.  That just  
> > proves
> > that Physics rules!  J (haha)
> >
> >
> >
> > For those interested, here are the links to see the news clip from  
> > our
> > local news station and 2 of our newspapers.  Enjoy!
> >
> > WMFD video:
> > http://www.wmfd.com/newsboard/singlesearchsingle.asp?Story=30815
> >
> > Ashland Times-Gazette front page article:
> > http://www.times-gazette.com/news/article/3336821
> >
> > Ashland Times-Gazette photos:
> > http://www.times-gazette.com/news/slideshow/3337002
> >
> > Mansfield News Journal article:
> > http://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article? 
> > AID=2008802220
> > 306
> >
> >
> > Have a great day!
> > Dwight

>