Bruce and the Arizona Mathematics Roadshow in the Arizona Daily Star

The article about him is on page 14!

http://arizonadailystar.az.newsmemory.com/special.php?date=20111211

2011 Tucson Pumpkin Toss Results

The results are in!

#	Team Name	Distance Shot 1 (m)	Distance Shot 2 (m)	Wall Distance (m)	Boxes Dislodged	Range final score	Accuracy final score	Combined score
1	Strebuchet	26.10	57.00	57.00	0	57.00	0.00	57.00
2	Kupbis Kill	120.00	120.00	106.00	0	100.00	0.00	100.00
3	Amphitheater High School Panthers	9.20	14.50	9.00	3	14.50	30.20	44.70
4	Pumpkin Poison	22.00	0.00	22.00	0	22.00	0.00	22.00
5	St Greory Hawks	36.70	27.40	41.00	0	36.70	0.00	36.70
6	Pueblo Magnet High Warriors	88.10	86.80	89.40	1	88.10	100.00	188.10
7	Chunkin Pucker	94.90	93.10	92.00	0	94.90	0.00	94.90
8	Jack O'Launcher	42.15	40.50	42.50	0	42.15	0.00	42.15

Pumpkin Toss Video

Thanks to all who participated in and attended the first annual Tucson Pumpkin Toss.  It was loads of fun, and we now have plenty of pumpkin pie filling just in time for Thanksgiving!  More to come soon on the results, but for now we have Leonard Vance, one of the Pumpkin Toss organizers, to thank for posting this video:

Fun with Physics at Casas Christian School

The Arizona Daily Star published this article about our recent visit to Casas Christian School.

Tucson Pumpkin Toss Event Schedule

Flying pumpkins!  The first annual Tucson Pumpkin Toss is this Sunday on the University of Arizona mall.  Registrants may still enter contest the event for a participation fee of $75.  Here's the schedule:

9:00 - 10:00	Check-in
10:00 - 12:00	Practice Throws
12:00 - 1:00	Trebuchet Viewing
1:00 - 4:00	Competition Throws
4:30	Awards

See you there!

Still Time to Enter the Tucson Pumpkin Toss

We know you have great ideas for building a contraption that can hurl a pumpkin 100 meters... Worry not!  Late registrants may still enter the inaugural Tucson Pumpkin Toss contest until the day of the event for a participation fee of $75.  Looking forward to your inventions!

The Weather Bus

Today's Arizona Daily Star has a short piece about Jimmy Stewart's "Weather Bus" initiative, launching in October. We at the Physics Factory feel as if we might be responsible for this, since we started doing outreach to schools with our Physics Bus back in 2003! Now we also have the "Arizona Mathematics Roadshow" (the Math Bus for short).

Jimmy "will visit schools in a bus that has been converted to a schoolroom, teaching the science of weather to children." You can check it out at www.weatherbus.org.