Along with a new science program comes a new tradition: graph matching.  This was the first year the Physics 9 course held a graph matching competition.

What is graph matching? Graph matching involves a sensor, a graph, and the program LoggerPro.  LoggerPro displays a graph and is connected to the sensor. Students walk back and forth and try to match their path with the graph. LoggerPro then calculates the area between the line you made by walking and the line of the original graph. The person with the smallest area wins.

Freshman Andrew Johnson was not intimidated going up on the big Huss stage in front of everyone.

“It wasn’t [intimidating] because I knew I wasn’t going to do well and I just thought it doesn’t hurt to try,” he said.

The final winner was Ethan Less who was also the winner in the qualifying rounds. It was a very intense competition because of the playlist US Science teacher Karissa Baker made with a number of classic pump up songs. There were a number of different strategies like using their body to measure how far away from the censor they should be.

Even though the competition was really intense, Johnson said “Back stage was pretty laid back and it was a friendly competition. I was able to have fun without too much pressure.”