High school offers class on go kart racing
01-29-2013, 10:11 PM
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High school offers class on go kart racing
High school offers class on go kart racing
By Eric Pfeiffer, Yahoo! News | The Sideshow – 1 hr 8 mins ago
We’ve all heard stories about colleges offering questionable courses for class credit: Frisbee golf, a sociological study of Lady Gaga and even a lecture series on surviving the zombie apocalypse.
But the Manatee School of the Arts high school is giving them a run for their money, offering a course on “the Physics of Motorsports.”
More specifically, as local ABC affiliate WWSB reports, it’s a class that has students going out for a sessions of go kart riding. And it's reportedly the only class of its kind in the entire country.
"All our high achieving math students, 8, 9 and 10th grades have been rewarded for their achievement with a day at the track," Physics of Motorsports instructor Frederick Hillier tells the station.
The course includes weekly trips to the local Anderson Race Park, which Hillier says will help motivate the students to further their physics studies.
"The physics program launches you in a great way into science but also into the motorsports path to where if you want to be you know an auto engineer or even a go kart engineer, it gets you a great start," senior and MSA Racing Team Crew Chief Lauren Hall told the station.
But yes, crunching those numbers and successfully completing the go kart class fulfills a Florida state requirement for chemistry of physics.
“They'll collect the data, they'll go back to school in the next class, and they'll calculate what the g-force was of their deceleration," Hillier said.
By Eric Pfeiffer, Yahoo! News | The Sideshow – 1 hr 8 mins ago
We’ve all heard stories about colleges offering questionable courses for class credit: Frisbee golf, a sociological study of Lady Gaga and even a lecture series on surviving the zombie apocalypse.
But the Manatee School of the Arts high school is giving them a run for their money, offering a course on “the Physics of Motorsports.”
More specifically, as local ABC affiliate WWSB reports, it’s a class that has students going out for a sessions of go kart riding. And it's reportedly the only class of its kind in the entire country.
"All our high achieving math students, 8, 9 and 10th grades have been rewarded for their achievement with a day at the track," Physics of Motorsports instructor Frederick Hillier tells the station.
The course includes weekly trips to the local Anderson Race Park, which Hillier says will help motivate the students to further their physics studies.
"The physics program launches you in a great way into science but also into the motorsports path to where if you want to be you know an auto engineer or even a go kart engineer, it gets you a great start," senior and MSA Racing Team Crew Chief Lauren Hall told the station.
But yes, crunching those numbers and successfully completing the go kart class fulfills a Florida state requirement for chemistry of physics.
“They'll collect the data, they'll go back to school in the next class, and they'll calculate what the g-force was of their deceleration," Hillier said.
Tracking a car is one big Geometry lesson .
01-30-2013, 08:28 AM
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OP, could you provide a link to the story? I think someone needs to educate the writer on the physics involved to properly setup and drive a racecar. Exciting to see schools start to offer courses that make science fun to generate interest in the field.
01-30-2013, 08:47 AM
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01-30-2013, 12:41 PM
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I teach English, so I use that every day. But to a certain extent, the lesson we all learn from literature is to read and think. There is hardly a better lesson than that.
