Melissa Parma

Parma's innovative project, "Real-Time Data Rocks!," is a project that will jointly serve the Advance Placement Physics students at Judson High School and students in third through fifth grades at Coronado Village Elementary School. Teams of eight (two students per laptop) from the high school will travel with Parma to the elementary school at six-week intervals to lead small groups of students through the following experiments: matching motion graphs, bouncing balls, magnetic fields of bar magnets/electromagnets, insulating properties of layers of clothing or fabric types, temperature and boiling/freezing of water, and transmission and reflection of light. Nearly 30 Advance Placement Physics students will benefit from the project. They will be able to conduct a wider range of experiments and make their physics lab mobile. Participating younger students will benefit from exposure to real-time data presented graphically and the interaction with positive role models from the high school. Parma lives in New Braunfels.