This six-day program for hundreds of students in three schools was an exciting expansion of our four-day program last year.  A huge thank-you to teacher and caver Deitra Biely for putting this together with us, and also to the Grove Public School foundation (GEFFE) for funding the program.  Our staff for the program did a phenomenal job, and included Mary Hicks, Jesse Yazetti, and Brent Biely.

Here are some pictures by Mary Hicks of the high school portion of our program:

 

Above, learning about bat biology outside the CaveSim trailer.  Below, investigating real live cave biota in the lab.

Below, just finished with a fun trip through CaveSim, and having fun learning about pulleys, mechanical advantage, and other physics concepts on the CaveSim 12′ A-frame.

  

Below, getting first-hand experience with friction via our rope-cutting demo.

 

Below, learning some basic electronics concepts while having fun with cave rescue phones.

 

Grove, OK: Students have fun with cave rescue phones while learning about electromagnetics

6th grade teacher Kim Hampton also took some photos of our program with her students:

  

All smiles while emerging from CaveSim, and while having fun with the squeezebox (and learning some math).