Students from any physics classes are welcome to go as long as they pay the $100 fee and register for the trip. Physics, Honors Physics, AP Physics, and Astro Physics are all the classes attending. The physics classes usually go to an amusement part for their field trip each year.
Physics teachers Ryan Tucek and Eric Reger are in charge of the trip to Cedar Point. This year Tucek and Reger decided to take the students to Cedar Point because last year they attended Hershey Park.
“I try to alternate each year so that if students take a physics class as a junior and then a senior they’ll go to two different places,” Tucek stated.
About half of the students in all of the physics classes are going on the trip. The classes are composed of junior and senior students.
Junior Emma Chamberlin is going on the trip this year. She and the other students will apply the topics they covered in class at Cedar Point.
“I think it will be a great chance for us to use our knowledge outside of the classroom. I also hope to learn about how we apply the equations we learned to real life,” Chamberlin stated.
Students will be able to take sensors on some of the rides to help with their calculations. If they cannot take the sensors on the ride, they take videos and use the videos to make their calculations.
Each student will pay $100 to be able to go on the field trip. This takes into account the bus, ticket for the park and other things. The students on the trip will leave the school at 6:30 a.m. and return at about 10:30 p.m. on May 15.
Chamberlin stated,“I think that physics is a great class and everyone should take at least one in either high school or college.”
By: Mackenzie Cameron