Students at Carmel Middle School in Colorado Springs, Colo., are getting an intensive dose of physics before most young people ever study the subject in depth. In fact, they're going to get three years of it, reports the Gazette newspaper of Colorado Springs.
The public school is a test bed for an effort launched by a new nonprofit, See the Change USA, to make physics a mainstay of middle school science. The goal is to have 25,000 middle schoolers in Colorado Springs take physics within the next four years, and 180,000 statewide over a decade, the story says.
