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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://www.universal-sci.com/headlines/2016/12/7/how-strong-is-the-force-of-gravity-on-earth
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 http://slowmophysics.hscampaigns.com/?utm_source=Coolstuff+Newsletter&utm_campaign=3e4f644961-Coolstuff_litshpphy_heat&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c5b08a4766-3e4f644961-238908785&mc_cid=3e4f644961&mc_eid=51d5da1afb
November 28, 2016 Dear Potential Donors, On behalf of the students and staff of Camelot Elementary School, I want to thank our RESET scientists for volunteering generously during the past school year in the classroom of our 4th and 5th grade scientists and engineers. The contributions the program has made have helped create and foster a love of science and ...READ MORE »
EXPERIMENT 1 OBJECTIVE: Build a structure that can support the most possible weight. MATERIALS: Wooden Clothespins Binder Clips –3/4 inch wide Colored Jumbo Craft Sticks – 6 inches long Books PROCEDURE: Have children break out into teams of 3-4 and challenge them to build structures that support weight. They will use the binder clips to ...READ MORE »