USU Physics Day at Lagoon. M. Muffoletto.
LOGAN – Friday, May 12 there will be about 15,000 on hand at Lagoon, Utah’s popular amusement park in Davis County. It is the park’s largest “school day” of the year.
About 10,000 teens will be there for Utah State University’s “USU Physics Day at Lagoon.”
Physics professor J.R. Dennison is a founder and the longtime coordinator of the event which somehow combines thrills and chills with STEM learning.
“Anything that you can imagine you would learn in physics or any of the engineering technology classes or with mathematical applications is resplendent in all the rides and activities that are there at Lagoon,” Dennison explains. “It’s a whole heckuva lot more fun to talk about being upside down on a roller coaster than it is a block riding down an incline plane.”
This is the 32nd year USU has sponsored the day of rides, STEM exhibits and demonstrations and one of the featured events is the Physics Bowl contest, pitting about 30 three-person teams in an academic competition.
“These are the students that are often heading off to MIT or Cal Tech,” says Dennison. “But occasionally we are able to talk them into coming up to Utah State. It’s really an impressive batch of students with an incredible physics knowledge.”
USU Physics Day at Lagoon is coordinated by the Idaho National Laboratory and USU’s Department of Physics.
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