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Article #2027Re: Swapping Ideas
From: Albert Liu
Date: Tue, 25 May 1993 17:32
Date: Tue, 25 May 1993 17:32
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Kathleen Smith is a teacher at Central High School in Champaign, Illinois who's been running the "Noon Project" for a number of years. In this project, students participate in a "re-enactment" of sorts of Eratosthenes' method of determining the circumference of the earth. At least yearly, she sends out messages over the network looking for classrooms that want to participate. I don't know too much more about the details. Her email address is: ksmith@uiuced2.uiuc.fred.org "T. Boyd Moore" <tbmoore@VDOE386.VAK12ED.EDU> writes: >According to Tony Hermanek: >> I am Tony Hermanek at Merrill Senior High In Merrill, WI. Merrill is about 10 >> miles from the 45/90 Lat/long "corner" of the world. I would be interested > in >> any thing that you might be doing to calc the circumference of the earth. >> Possibly a schedule via ham radio. Next fall would be the time frame. >> Thanks >> Tony Hermanek >> hermanek@nes.nersc.gov >> >I don't know what happened to my part of this reply. So here goes >again. Tony, I think that's a good idea. Our ham club station is in >our physics lab/room, so I would love some interaction between >teachers/students in the classes. >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >T. Boyd Moore - Physics & Math teacher, Caroline High School, >Milford, VA 22514. KO4WK. Galatians 2:20 e-mail:tbmoore@vdoe386.vak12ed.edu >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Albert Liu liu@cerl.uiuc.edu -- Albert Liu liu@cerl.uiuc.edu
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 16cfd8,3d339b05aff26648 X-Google-Attributes: gid16cfd8,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-05-25 12:17:14 PST Newsgroups: bit.listserv.physhare Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!mcsun!uknet!bnr.co.uk!corpgate!news.utdallas.edu!wupost!howland.reston.ans.net!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.cso.uiuc.edu!liu From: liu@cerl.uiuc.edu (Albert Liu) Subject: Re: Swapping Ideas Date: Tue, 25 May 1993 17:32:05 GMT Message-ID: <liu.738351125@cerl.uiuc.edu> References: <9305221307.AA04751@vdoe386.vak12ed.edu> Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 38