Thank you once again Huntington Middle School and Ms. Sowards for inviting Dr. McBride, advisor of the Society of Physics Students and Associate Professor in the Mathematics and Physics Department, along with his previous College Physics students Madison Corey and Haylea Castle, to help with this year’s pumpkin drop! Fun was had by all! Dr. McBride gave a brief lecture to HMS students at the start of the event to explain the relationships between force, change momentum, and duration of collisions so students could incorporate these concepts in their enclosure designs to save their pumpkins from the 4-story fall. Haylea and Madison helped out during the week for some of the build days. The students learned many lessons and were all winners on the day of drop day!
