Lowellvile students get sweeter taste of Newton's law

LOWELLVILLE

Physics and marshmallows may not seem like an obvious pairing, but Lowellville second-grader Laila Stevens learned otherwise Tuesday night.

At a STEM night (science, technology, engineering and math), students such as Stevens got a taste of the sweeter side of Newton’s Second Law of Motion – force equals mass times acceleration.

The students measured the mass of marshmallows and then applied force by blowing air on the marshmallows through a straw.

The event, open to students in kindergarten through sixth grade and their parents, sought to expose students to “21st century skills” needed for careers in fields such as carpentry, engineering or medicine, K-12 Principal Kristin Sawicki said.

Read more about the event in Wednesday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com .