Bobcat Stories

On a recent Tuesday afternoon, Mr. Middleton’s physics class set up force tables in the lab, testing mathematical calculations to confirm the concept of vector addition. They wanted to see what it looks like to add forces—magnitude and direction—and to see how those forces demonstrate the mathematical relationships they’d established.

After calibrating the tables, the students arranged three strings over  pulleys, from which various weights were hung, to create vector quantities of force along various angles. In search of better precision, they took preliminary notes on the process, concentrating on the possible constraints of the particular vector problem they were considering, constraints that would induce or create errors.   

And did the numbers add up? Mostly. As with many experiments in a lab, what mattered most was the process of getting closer and closer, chasing that elusive precision, with a little bit of string and a pile of brass rings.

Mr. Middleton was proud to point out that half the students in the class are young women, the most balanced gender ratio in recent years. Women in STEAM is not only a club here at Bosque School—it’s a reality.