Each year in the Senior School's Physics 2 Calculus and Advanced Topics in Physics and Engineering courses, Dr. Scott Peterson challenges students to independently design and build projects that interest them.

The students are not directed to create something specific; rather, they are given the freedom to design and build anything that interests them that has some relationship to physics, allowing them to get excited and stretch their creativity. Students use the cutting-edge makerspace equipment in the "Fab Lab" of the Senior School's Glimcher Tech & Design Hub to bring their designs to life.

This year's projects included a go-cart, an RC car, a pneumatic toothpick shooter, a facial recognition lock, a seismograph, a soda fountain, trebuchets, a bubble tea machine, a ballista and more! Earlier this year, rising senior Steven D. Liu created a Wimshurst machine in the Advanced Topics in Physics and Engineering course and has since gained regional and national recognition for his project.

Congratulations to all of our student inventors!

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