Students look at the entries in the roller-coaster design competition at the annual Utah State University Physics Day at Lagoon in Farmington on Friday, May 13, 2016.
Physics Day at Lagoon attracts an average of 8,000 middle and high school students from more than 200 schools in five states each year. Students and teachers are able to enjoy the park’s attractions while thinking about the physics behind the fun.
FARMINGTON — Katherine Russell peeked inside a plastic-wrapped wooden box filled with packing peanuts, trying to look at the raw egg inside.
The sixth-grader at John Hancock charter school in Pleasant Grove crafted the box with her dad as a physics project for school.