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<h2>Weather and Science Day</h2>
<i>Brian Jones and Little Shop of Physics</i><p></p>

On April 23, Coors Field, home of the Colorado Rockies baseball club,  became a
gigantic open-air classroom as more than 13,000 kids got a lesson in physics
from Colorado State University's Little Shop of Physics, 9News & the Colorado
Rockies, breaking the world record for largest physics lesson. <p></p>

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Weather & Science Day is a partnership between Colorado State University, the
Colorado Rockies, and Channel 9 News. The Rockies provided funding, as did
Channel 9 and&#8210;of course&#8210;Colorado State University, most especially
the College of Natural Sciences. Additional funding from CMMAP and the
Halliburton Foundation helped make the day an overwhelming success.<p></p>
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The Little Shop of Physics crew spent several weekends preparing. They hitched a
billowing parachute to a giant Big Wheel for the 'Drag Race', they tested and
re-tested equipment for the wish lanterns and fog balloons, cut hundreds of
yards of fabric to make 75 spandex bands to demonstrate waves in the stands. On
the day, they put on an amazing show.<p></p>

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An event like this doesn't just happen. It took more than 400 CSU student,
staff, and community volunteers and hundreds of man hours to put it all
together. As part of CSUnity on April 5, 150 volunteers from Kappa Kappa Gamma
and Gamma Phi Beta sororities helped us stuff 15,000 bags with talking strips,
3D glasses, and UV bracelets ... It was a full day, but at the end of it they
had 300 totes of 50 bags each, two for each of the volunteers who would be
working in the stands.<p></p>

The 150 CSU student and community volunteers were supervised by 15 CSU staff and
community volunteers who gave up a day to help us put on this program.<p></p>

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