Mr. Salomon shared an example of a project for his Digital Electronics class. The students were required to design a logic circuit that would display their date of birth on a seven-segment display.
Ms. Gabler's Physics class experimented with charges of electricity by using the Van der Graaf generator. They were impressed by the results!
"When we do this demonstration, we are studying electrostatics (stationary electrons). The Van der Graaf generates electrons on the dome, which then conduct to the student touching it and the students connected to him. The electrons don't have anywhere else to go, because they are insulated from the floor. This is why a girl's hair may stand up, all the electrons on her are trying to repel each other. However, eventually there are too many electrons on them and their clothes (kind of like critical mass) and the electrons jump to the metal in the chair and down to the ground. When that happens, all the electrons in the entire chain travel through that one point and they all feel the "shock" of the electrons leaving their bodies."
~Andrea Gabler
