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ST. GEORGE — Pine View High School students recently had the opportunity to put their physics knowledge to the test at the Sand Hollow Aquatic Center in St. George.
This annual class project requires students to try to build boats that can balance the forces of gravity and buoyancy to float across the length of a pool.
Physics science teacher Tiffany Lloyd said this year's event, which took place Nov. 6, marks her third year doing this experiment with her students. She said she has seen students from previous years take notice when the next class begins assembling materials to build boats in the classroom since their own experience left an impact on them.
The students are separated into teams in order to race against one another and see who can build boats that would make it across the water and who will sink. Their supplies for this project were trash bags, cardboard boxes and duct tape. Lloyd said that this year she had roughly 100 students from five different class periods participating, building "just over 20 boats."
