Science teacher Alyssa Meyer’s physics students started working on their circuit projects on Friday, Feb. 27 and will continue working until Thursday, March 12. The project utilizes a hands-on approach of the unit by allowing for the students to create a friendship detector in the form of a circuit.

“The students come up with first a diagram of how they want [the circuit] to be created and come up with questions that other students would have to answer that would tell whether or not they would be their friend,” Meyer said. “Afterwards they take little odds and ends and pieces of anything that conducts electricity and connect them to make a circuit.”

The project wasn’t easy to make, according to senior Katie Heffernon.

“The most difficult part of the project was actually making [the circuit] work. It involves a lot of trial and error,” Heffernon said.

According to Meyer, using a project to teach the unit has benefits.

“It makes you much more engaged than just solving equations,” Meyer said. “We can do the same thing that we would have to spend a lot of time working on equations with by just physically doing and it’s a little more fun that way.”

Heffernon said she enjoyed the project.

“My favorite part about it was testing my abilities and using my newly-learned knowledge to build something,” Heffernon said. “It feels good to say that I know what I’m doing.”