Study Physics Team Travels to University of Vermont Physics Department

In order to get to where we are, the five of us have not only worked hard during and after school for the past 6 months, we were also fortunate enough to have been given the opportunity to travel to Vermont. We caught a bus down to the University of Vermont in the early morning, and spent the day under the wing of a couple of UVM teachers. We arrived in Vermont with nothing but an idea and a sketch, and after the first day, we returned to Montreal with the outer shell of our box created, our glass tube fitted and made, and some of the other components finished! Between our first and second visit to the UVM, we had our box more or less completed. Dave Hammond and Mike Hamblin, the two that helped us throughout our stay, offered us a chance to visit the University a second time, this time, rather then using all the amazing equipment and machines that we didn't have access to in Montreal, we benefited from this day by learning all about the physics concepts our safe didn't cover. We wanted to not only have an uncrackable safe, we also wanted to have a good shot at understanding other team's safes. Dave set up a whole bunch of interesting experiments and demonstrations and this gained us a better understanding of what might come up on the day of the competition.