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Grades 9-10: New Day

January 10, 2019

On January 9th, during CAS, the 9th and 10th graders participated in “New Day” to celebrate Newton’s birthday and physics!

There was a myriad of activities, ranging from the classic games of Jenga and dominoes, to high-tech GT racing and “Air-Drop Egg”, just to name a few. You could tell that everyone was having fun as people puzzled over the Luban locks or stole a jumbo marshmallow from the marshmallow spaghetti stronghold. In this activity room, participants had to build a three-story structure with jumbo marshmallows and spaghetti noodles. Some of the structures were actually quite large and grand, taking up a whole table! Across from the marshmallow room was the Jenga room. If you don’t know, Jenga is a game created during the 1980s. In this game, identical rectangular blocks are piled up 3 by 3 in alternating directions. Hordes of students lined up to play. Another classic game was held next door: dominos. Even though most people may know dominoes from Domino’s Pizza, it’s unlikely that everyone has had the time to create elaborate domino structures and feel the satisfying sensation of them falling down one after another; all from a single touch! Beyond these two games, there were also many other more modern games, such as “Rescue the Penguin”, “Hoodle Launch”, and the “STEM Doggie Charades” (which had nothing to do with dogs). Out of these three, the “STEM Doggie Charades” may have been the most challenging, as acting out physics terms is quite difficult. Words included “work” and “reflection”. However, the hardest activity of them all may have been “Luban Lock”. There were dozens of different types of these intricate wooden puzzles that had many scratching their heads as they left, defeated by the small toy. There were also a few highly talented students who were able to put together the locks without even glancing at the cheat sheet! On the third floor, there were two activities–one of which included the “Air-Drop Egg” activity, where students had to protect their egg from cracking after being dropped from the third floor.

Overall, this was quite an interactive and entertaining event that made physics a bit more fun.

(Written by 9(5) Hannah Zhou Pictures by Xie Junyu Supervised by Xie Junyu)