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Optics

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Due to Culture Day landing on a Monday there was no optics video. Everything landed on Wednesday. This term I say at the end of the table and pointed the laser to the east. This actually worked well. The terrarium was an excellent demonstrator of total internal refection and led naturally to fiber optics. I need a fiber optic toy. This approach worked better because there was no blocking mirror desk. I moved through rainbows and convex lenses  wrapping at 12:51 The Thursday laboratory replicated the equipment of the prior term, with an additional graduated cylinder to provide more data above the 1000 ml beakers value. The board layout took 30 minutes from 8:00 to 8:30. With 8:00 attendance at three the slow start allowed more to arrive ahead of demonstrating the measurements. In a break from past practice, the full lab through to the lab report was on the board from 8:30. Melsihna and Va...

Founding Day 2025

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09:10 Muster was scheduled for 08:00 along the road next to Spanish Wall ball field. The evening before, floats had already parked next to the Kolonia town gym. Two strong wind bursts along with torrential rain at sunset decimated the bananas on the ChuuChok float. The ChuuChok team moved the float to Nahnpohnmal to rebuild in an all night effort.  The theme for the 32nd founding day was "Rooted in tradition, growing through innovation, thriving with resilience."  09:22 Parade launch was scheduled for 09:00 with actual departure at twenty minutes after the hour. There is a low handing category five internet cable across the driveway at the gym. A stick was used to flip the cable over the taller floats.  09:32 The parade reached the capitol at 09:32.  09:34 Keeping the state flags four abreast put one state across the centerline, which was not problematic as traffic was essentially at a standstill with motorists videoing...