Clarksville’s Movies in the Park to show “Black Panther” this Saturday
July 8, 2019
Clarksville, TN – On Saturday, July 13th, 2019, the City of Clarksville’s free outdoor movie series Movies in the Park will continue its 14th season with the showing of “Black Panther” at the Heritage Park soccer fields.
Pre-show activities, coordinated by the Clarksville Parks and Recreation Department, will begin at 6:30pm and include a ping pong cannon firing demonstration by Austin Peay’s Bryan Gaither, lab manager for the Department of Physics, Engineering and Astronomy. Watch as plastic balls are fired more than 700 mph through cans, plywood and maybe even some fruit.
“Black Panther” playing this Saturday at Movies in the Park.
APSU coding camp Elementary Kids learn about Coding, Program Robots
June 16, 2019
Clarksville, TN – All week at the Austin Peay State University (APSU) coding camps kindergartners through fifth-graders have been learning how to program . On Thursday, June 13th, 2019, they got class time with robots.
Bridget Cloud teaches the young coders how to program their robots at Austin Peay State University. (APSU)
APSU Governor’s School kicks off with a boom
June 5, 2019
Clarksville, TN – Austin Peay State University Governor’s School for Computational Physics students stepped into the classroom on Monday for their classwork for the first time during their three-week stay at APSU.
Clarksville Mayor Joe Pitts visits with Austin Peay State University Governor’s School of Computational Physics on Tuesday, the second full day of the intensive three-week school. (APSU)
Sango Elementary students become scientists of the day at Austin Peay State University
May 11, 2019
Clarksville, TN – What is a scientist? That’s the question Dr. Karen Meisch, interim dean of the Austin Peay State University (APSu) College of STEM, and her team answered this week with 140 Sango Elementary School first-graders, who visited the APSU campus May 9th, 2019 for a morning of scientific demonstrations.
Dr. Karen Meisch, interim dean of Austin Peay State University’s College of STEM showed Sango Elementary School Students the wonder of science. (APSU)
APSU sends dolls to stratosphere to celebrate women in STEM
January 31, 2019
Austin Peay State University (APSU)
Clarksville, TN – Austin Peay State University and the APSU College of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) recently celebrated women in STEM by launching a high-altitude balloon carrying two dolls adorned in American Girl NASA space suits.
The dolls reached 93,914 feet at 11:13am January 24th, 2019.
Megan McCracken prepares the doll payload for the launch at Austin Peay State University
NASA praises APSU for solar eclipse outreach
August 24, 2018
Austin Peay State University
Clarksville, TN – NASA recently honored Austin Peay State University with its Marshall Space Flight Center Group Achievement Award for the University’s help during the 2017 Great American Eclipse.
Austin Peay State University representatives Dr. Donald Sudbrink, center, professor and chair of the APSU Department of Agriculture; Bill Persinger, right, executive director for Public Relations & Marketing; and Bryan Gaither, lab manager for the Department of Physics, Engineering and Astronomy, accepted the award with other members of the Marshall Space Flight Center Solar Eclipse Team on August 22nd in Huntsville, AL.
Homemade hovercraft captivates APSU’s junior campers
July 19, 2018
Austin Peay State University (APSU)
Clarksville, TN – On a slow Friday afternoon, Austin Peay State University’s Bryan Gaither built a hovercraft.
He captured a video of its maiden flight and sent it to some friends: “So I got bored and built a hovercraft.”
Austin Peay State University’s Bryan Gaither prepares to don an Iron Man mask and his across the gym floor on his homemade hovercraft. Attendees of the university’s Junior Govs Summer Camp are in the background. (APSU)
APSU Governor’s School wraps up with day of smashing fun
June 27, 2018
Austin Peay State University
Clarksville, TN – Before the Austin Peay State University (APSU) Governor’s School for Computational Physics finished its three weeks of summer fun on Friday, the school’s mentors and professors had a little bit more science to show off.
After Bryan Gaither and Jeremiah Simmons boiled water in this steel drum, they sealed it and put it in an ice bath. Within 90 seconds it imploded. (Austin Peay State University)
Campers walk on water at APSU
June 18, 2018
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Clarksville, TN – Last week, Bryan Gaither’s grocery list called for 150 pounds of cornstarch. When asked what he was doing, the Austin Peay State University (APSU) physics lab manager explained he wanted to get a group of campers to walk on water.
Austin Peay State University Department of Physics, Engineering and Astronomy graduate Jonathan Bunton, center, explains to Governor’s School students what’s happening with the corn starch-water mixture.
Austin Peay State University School for Physics demonstrates Ping Pong Cannon
June 12, 2018
APSU Governor’s School for Computational Physics
Clarksville, TN – High school students attending the APSU Governor’s School for Computational Physics this summer learned ping pong balls can pierce a piece of ¼-inch-thick plywood.
But only with the help of a specially built ping pong cannon.
APSU Department of Physics, Engineering and Astronomy constructed a ping pong cannon earlier this year.
