Author Archives: John Meagher

https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/139/graphic-global-warming-from-1880-to-2018/

In this video, RESET volunteer Ben Rahimi has his third grade students use model cars on a track to demonstrate the conversion of potential to kinetic energy. In the spring 2019 semester, Ben is leading a program at Anacostia’s Excel Academy, the only all-girls public school in Washington DC. RESET once had programs in a number of schools in Anacostia, an ...READ MORE »

We are sad to share that Bob Hauptman, a longstanding volunteer with RESET, passed away on June 28, 2018 at the age of 93. Bob had a background in electrical engineering and taught electronics, electricity and physics to children at all grade levels. A veteran volunteer of more than 10 years, Bob continued volunteering into his 90s. His ...READ MORE »

Field Trip Report from RESET Program Specialist Shaheen Khurana With the school year drawing to a close, students from J.G Whittier school, along with their RESET volunteer Mike Goldstein, set out on a field trip to see “DREAM BIG: Engineering the World,” a giant-screen film about engineering showing at the Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum. ...READ MORE »

It’s Pay It Forward Time . . .  By Charles Cisneros   Charles helps students set up the “wheel and axle” experiment, using his granddaughter’s tricycle. A former aerospace engineer, I worked for 33 years as an Air Force officer and 13 years for SAIC as a system test planner for the National Missile defense program. I retired in 2009. I had done other kinds ...READ MORE »

RESET volunteer George Pick is ending his time as a RESET  volunteer after reaching hundreds of children in third and fourth grades at Key and Barrett Elementary Schools in Arlington, Virginia. George joined RESET in 2012 because he wanted to stimulate children’s interest and creativity, and to introduce them to science because of its importance to society ...READ MORE »

This article lost me at: “This is consistent with Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, which remains the best means of describing gravity’s behavior. According to this theory, gravity is not a force, but a consequence of the curvature of spacetime caused by the uneven distribution of mass/energy.”  If not a force, what is gravity?  Can anyone help? John https://bit.ly/2qCOQES

From LOLBOOK.com: https://twitter.com/LOLBOOKcom/status/809773043568562177/video/1

From RESET Volunteer Beverly Yett: This is a very cool catalog–great for those doing engineering and physics experiments, Most of the items are not too expensive either. take a look at the catalog and pass it along to all Beverly https://www.arborsci.com/