Dublin middle school and ninth-grade students spent Saturday morning discussing sports, food, architecture and the science behind them at a districtwide science fair...
Abby Haab, a seventh-grader at Grizzell, focused on the magnus force in her experiment to test if the rotation of a softball pitch affected the ball's trajectory.
Abby Haab, a seventh-grader at Grizzell, focused on the magnus force in her experiment to test if the rotation of a softball pitch affected the ball's trajectory.
She's learning to throw a curveball.
She built a pendulum with a softball and string in her garage, she said.
Correction: her Dad's garage (I'm paying for it dammit).
Haab released the ball from a wooden box with varying amounts of spin and found that when there was more spin, the trajectory was affected more.
Shocking.
With no spin, "it was all over the place," she said, but that was a question for further study.
We will be studying this over the summer as she learns to throw a knuckleball.
"The kids are very excited because once they get an interest in any particular subject, they want to be scientists and engineers," said Uma Venkatamaran. She organized the science fair as a member of PROUD, an academic booster group...
In the seventh grade, Arjun Venkatamaran won first, Haab was second and Mark Beshara and Elijah Foreman were third.
In the seventh grade, Arjun Venkatamaran won first, Haab was second and Mark Beshara and Elijah Foreman were third.
In completed unrelated news, some overzealous parent who frequently blogs has filed a protest of the seventh grade results on the grounds of nepotism (WHAT? The winner and the organizer have the same last name. Gotta be rigged. Right?)
