2016
Marsh W. White Outreach Award
The Pumpkin Drop reenacts Galileo Galilee's Tower of Pisa Experiment. On Halloween, SPS members dress as Einstein, Aristotle, Newton, and Galileo to explain the evolution of the Rule of Falling Bodies as other SPS members demonstrate the rule by dropping pumpkins from the fifth floor of CSU Chico’s Butte Hall.
Project leader(s):David Ramirez
Chapter advisor:Eric Ayars