You will not want to pass on a great opportunity to double up STEM with Basketball in our STEM & Basketball session. This hands-on method of learning the STEM fundamentals behind the game of basketball will drive students towards their goals of not only becoming better players, but also becoming better students as they will get the answers to the “why” questions that surround the game. Students will: *Understand the contents of a basketball on the molecular level and how temperature affects play *Evaluate the changes that basketball shoes have made over time and why Engineering their own shooting apparatus to explain some of Sir Issac Newton’s Laws. By the way, he was only five feet, six inches! *Learn how to calculate their own field goal percentage, just like the greatest players in the NBA
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