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The winning card tower Ñ Branden Burke, Aaron Montis, Jacob Fultz and Chris Stokes.
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First annual SMASH competition at DJHS
This week, the Danbury Junior High School students participated in the first annual SMASH (Science, Math, Academic, Scholastic Hour) competition. The students completed the first three events on Tuesday, May 27, and, weather permitting, will complete the last three events on Friday, May 30. The junior high students signed up to be part of one of 20 different four-person teams for this competition. Science and math concepts were stressed as well as teamwork and problem solving skills.Tuesday’s events were:• Turn Up the Volume — an opportunity to solve problems dealing with volume, surface area, geometric shapes and other math concepts using objects around the high school stadium;• Two Decks High — a competition to build the highest card tower within a 45-minute time frame using two standard decks of cards; and• Splat — where the students built a device that would propel a raw egg a maximum horizontal distance and not crack or break the egg.The initial winners for Tuesday’s events were the team of Branden Burke, Jacob Fultz, Aaron Montis, and Chris Stokes for the card tower with a height of 45 inches; the team of George Klaehn, Sean McGraw, Damon Monier, and Brett Reyes winning the Splat competition with a distance of 120 feet, two inches, and the team of Mollie Knighton, Alex Beverick, Paige Dine, Shelby Whitaker as the winner of the Turn Up the Volume event. In the exhibition match after the events were over, the team of Mariah Frantz, Jessica Hruby, Carol Mazurik, and Allison Hohman modified their egg launcher to launch an egg, unbroken, 200 feet, three inches.Friday, the competition will continue with Popcorn Done Naturally, popping popcorn with a solar corn popper, Capsule Egg Drop, where students design a capsule out of 50 drinking straws to protect an egg from a drop off the stadium bleachers, and the Water Balloon launch, where students have to launch balloons and land them in hula hoop targets scattered around the practice field.With the success of this year’s event, science teacher Adam Steinbrick, and math teacher Jacki Brown, as well as the rest of the junior high team, are already beginning to plan the second annual event.
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