{"id":4381,"date":"2017-04-28T20:47:42","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T00:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/?p=4381"},"modified":"2018-05-13T18:44:15","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T22:44:15","slug":"high-school-students-compete-in-physics-battle-of-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/high-school-students-compete-in-physics-battle-of-brains\/","title":{"rendered":"High school students compete in physics battle of brains"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nina Ruiz
\nIn Motion Staff Writer<\/p>\n

AP Physics students from Spruce Creek, Seabreeze, and Mainland High schools gathered in a battle of wits to compete in the Physics Olympics at Daytona State College\u2019s Lemerand Fitness Center last month. <\/p>\n

The event was hosted by DSC\u2019s Physics and Meteorology Professor, Dr. Michael Olson, who gathered his students to judge the high schoolers\u2019 models and experiments, including paper plane challenges, strong arm machines, egg drops, bridge building, laser zaps and a Rube Goldberg contraption, more commonly known as a \u201cchaos machine.\u201d <\/p>\n

Dr. Olson emphasizes the importance of physics in everyday life to the students. \u201cIt\u2019s one thing to learn about physics in the classroom, but it\u2019s one thing to put it into action,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The 200 participating high school teens had a few months to plan, as well as the choice to participate in as many activities as they wanted. Mainland students in charge of the chaos machine, however, limited their preparation time to just four days. They collected items within their classroom from scratch to ultimately see how they would all fit together to serve a function. <\/p>\n

One of the Mainland Advanced Placement students said these types of hands-on activities are a custom in the classroom. \u201cOur teacher Mr. Hilburn brings these kinds of supplies all the time and it really helps us get a grasp on the lessons,\u201d senior Miraj Patel said.<\/p>\n

Not only did Drew Hilburn, AP physics teacher at Mainland, aim for his class to practice the learned material from the event, but he also hoped the students would take away something greater. <\/p>\n

\u201cAP students may feel isolated and alone when they walk in to take their final exam. So, when things like this brings the class together, I hope that feel like they can take that final as a team, too,\u201d said Hilburn.<\/p>\n

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At the end of the day and all the awards have been handed out, students pose together for a group picture.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The DSC Physics II students helping to judge the high schoolers\u2019 experiments volunteered simply because of their love for the subject. Sydney Dumas, a student in Dr. Olson\u2019s class, was most excited for the Airplane Challenge.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love anything to do with airplanes and how they work. The designs that the kids come up with are always really cool,\u201d Dumas said. She recently got accepted to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University to further her studies and plans to start in July. <\/p>\n

An awards ceremony was held at the end of the Physics Olympics where the AP students received certificates and were applauded for their challenging work. Jackson Strickland and Tommy Walburg from Mainland were tied for first place in the Airplane Challenge, both of their planes reached 55 feet in altitude. Hunter Klein from Spruce Creek reached first place in the Strong Arm Challenge and also tied for first with Scott Buck in the Laser Challenge. <\/p>\n

The Mainland High School students worked collectively on their Rube Goldberg Machine and earned their score based on the volume of applause they received, which led them to first place. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nina Ruiz In Motion Staff Writer AP Physics students from Spruce Creek, Seabreeze, and Mainland High schools gathered in a battle of wits to compete in the Physics Olympics at Daytona State College\u2019s Lemerand Fitness Center last month. The event was hosted by DSC\u2019s Physics and Meteorology Professor, Dr. Michael Continue reading High school students compete in physics battle of brains<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4354,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4382,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4381\/revisions\/4382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}