Rolling through science lobby

 

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Sarah Kate Durkee, left, and Elizabeth Sellers get ready to roll a marble down the paper coaster. (Photo by KAREN JARRARD, Gazebo Staff)

Middle school science teacher Melissa Smith’s eighth-grade classes demonstrated their paper roller coasters in the lobby of the Science Center Monday morning. The students designed, built, tested and modified the gravity-based paper roller coasters. The project was part of a unit on Newton’s Laws of Motion, potential/kinetic energy and friction.

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Sean Malhotra, left, and Josie Lamb look over the exhibits. (Photo by MARY LYNES SUTTON, Gazebo Staff)