San Dimas High School

San Dimas High Saints won the CIF-SS Mid-Valley Division championship, outscoring Monrovia 12-7 in wild, wet, and windy epic. All 317 yards racked up came on running plays. "We worked very hard," said Coach Zernickow, "I'm so proud of our kids and how they executed the game plan." What better way to celebrate our first time in the CIF finals than bringing home the title!

Forty six SDHS physics students had a physics fun day at Knott’s last week along with several thousand other physics students from all around southern California. The students timed rides, measured height of rides using inclinometers and trigonometry techniques, and entered contests related to physics and engineering topics. And they rode a lot of rides. I did too. The event is a great hands-on physics activity.

Knott’s provides workbooks with questions that students complete throughout the day.  Students collect data to answer questions about each ride’s acceleration, average velocity, and other physics quantities.  The students complete a lab write-up the day after the event using their collected data.

Images of the day are at: http://www.bonita.k12.ca.us/sandimas/elliott/knotts2009/index.html