The Monsoon and a Mouse Trap

As some of you know I teach physics part time at a community college.  In the class I am teaching this semester the students have to build a mouse trap car.  It is a competition between the students.  This is the only thing in class where they can earn extra credit.  Some of my students seem very excited about this, in fact, a few are going to try and get their cars to go over 100m.  This is nearly impossible, but if they want to try, I am more than willing to see it happen.  The farthest I have even seen one go in a past class is 39m.  I am very glad that they are getting into it (I will have to wait and see if that enthusiasm stays there until the project).

At school today it rained and hailed quite a bit.  The monsoon seems to be back.  Now I really hope it goes away before the weekend.  I am in charge of an astronomy night at Family Camp, and I really hope it isn’t cloudy.  So any prayer for no clouds Saturday and Sunday night would be great.