Phaser to Stun? No, make that Vanilla!
OK, so the Chemistry students did not really have phasers in class today. What they did have were phase-changers. After studying the change in phases with the accompanying caloric/joule energy requirements, the dual-enrolled Capitol School students put their new found understanding to practical (and did we hear delicious in there?) use by phase changing crystalline dihydrogen oxide to its liquid phase without the addition of thermal energy. In lay terms: They made ice cream!!!! The student would have really like to have invited their families, but knowing that it would have been a burden for them to come to the school during their busy work day — students ate all the extra ice cream for them 
Upper High School Students deconstruct light to investigate the structure of matter this week in Physical Science. No photons will be harmed during this activity and a representative of PETA (Photon Emission, Transition and Absorption) will be on-site.
The speed and comprehension challenge in mathematics came to a conclusion this week. In The Capitol School’s own version of March Madness, students were paired off for sets of ten problems each in addition, subtraction, division and multiplication. Runners-up Rachael Shirley, Mary Hanna McDonald, and finally River Copeland, gave Nick Ultee a tremendous challenge. Nick did a superb job during the contest. His prize was a ten dollar award to the movies. Congratulations to everyone involved.
Dual enrolled students at The Capitol School share the MIT Genetics course today with Professor Lander via internet streaming.
Students studied the historical work leading to Mendelian genetics of peas. This session is the first of three — all of which are available for students to load onto their computer or iPod.
