Freshman Medals in Regional Science Fair

Freshman Jon D represented Tandem at the Piedmont Virginia Regional Science Fair held yesterday at PVCC. He earned a 2nd place medal in the Energy and Transportation category for his project testing rollercoaster design elements. Jon's project studied how energy transformation can be applied to things like a roller coaster and he built two representations. The Z coaster he built turned potential gravitational energy into kinetic energy. The U coaster turned potential energy into kinetic energy to propel a ball up the other side of the coaster, causing it to renew its potential gravitational energy. Congratulations and well done, Jon!