STUDENTS LEND A HAND TO TA FOREST PROJECT
Students in Josh Delcourt’ s Trees and the Maine Forest classes rolled up their sleeves to help beautify the Thornton campus, planting saplings to support our Community Forest Project.
The program was launched last year in response to the loss of several campus trees that fell victim to infestation. Through the Community Forest Project, we’ re incorporating a variety of indigenous trees that will become part of the campus landscape and provide beauty, cooling, and shade for generations to come.
Josh’ s three classes each planted a tree outside of the Fine Arts Building in June, joining others around campus that were added with the help of Dale Pierson’ 73 of Pierson’ s Nursery. The project is supported by grants and private donations.
Learn more about the Community Forest Project at thorntonacademy. org / trees
NEW GRAD ' S WORK PUBLISHED IN PRESTIGIOUS JOURNAL
Shortly before graduating in June, Mateo Patino learned that he would soon be a published author.
Mateo and Thornton teacher Clint Nash, Ph. D. coauthored a scientific paper that was accepted for publication in The Journal of Undergraduate Research in Physics and Astronomy( JURPA), a peer-reviewed publication of the Society of Physics Students.
In their paper,“ Jerk, Acceleration, and Speed on Inclined Surfaces,” they derive the mathematical formula that describes a curve which has the property that an object sliding on it will experience a constant jerk( jerk describes changes in an object’ s acceleration). In other words, while a ball rolling down a constant slope exhibits a constant rate of acceleration, a ball rolling down a variable slope will experience a change in the rate of acceleration.
Mateo, pictured with Dr. Nash at graduation, is enrolled at Columbia University.
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