Ice rink

It’s a snow day!! You gaze into the bright sky, and see the tiny little snowflakes falling. You try to catch them in your mouth. Wait, how do snowflakes form, why do they look the way they do, and how are they all different? Lets learn about snowflakes! To start off, snowflakes are fascinating and all, but how do they form? According to the article, Snow Day!, it can begin snowing at 32 degrees Fahrenheit. It being 32 degrees Fahrenheit the wonderful snowflakes will be enormous and stick to…

The top 1/3 of a particular mountain in Yellowstone contains a large population of white bark pine trees and about twenty grizzly bears. Over about twenty years, average temperatures get significantly warmer due to pollution and climate change. As modeled by the diagram, warmer temperatures lead to an increase in the population of white bark pine infesting beetles. An increase in the beetles overwhelms the defense systems of the white bark pine trees, and they are completely wiped out from the…

An iPhone was placed in the hands of Rylee for the first time. An app (Pokemon Go) was uploaded that every person in her school talks about. The location services were turned on, on Rylee’s phone and she saunters around outside by herself for hours. Rylee accumulated her fiftieth Pokemon as she looks up and notices the pitch black viewpoint, she wondered where she was. Nothing but a whistle of the nippy wind was flying by her ear. Rylee continues to walk a little further and she trusts herself…

Was the Effect of the Type of Dairy Product Used on the Height of the Ice Cream Formation? Purpose: The purpose of the experiment conducted was to find out how different dairy products used to make ice cream affect how tall of a formation can be shaped out of the ice cream. Background Information: Most people experience the joy of making their own ice cream when they are kids, but what is the science behind it? Homemade ice cream is made by combining a mixture of a chosen dairy product,…

Hockey in the desert Ice hockey is a sport almost unheard of in the city of Tucson, Arizona. There is the local college team, the Wildcats, but aside from that you have to drive through the middle of a scorching desert to get to the nearest city with an ice rink. And then of course there is me. Hockey is a big hobby of mine, and sadly I was unfortunate enough to grow up in the middle of a desert where hockey is not a big part of the culture. But that wasn’t going to stop me. My goal was to get…

According to them, the number of field players decreased from nine to seven, on the ice were the goalkeeper, the front and back defenders, the central and two attackers, and in front of the entire width of the field was a rover - the strongest hockey player, . The whole match was held by the team in one team, and by the end of the game the athletes literally crawled on the ice from fatigue, because only a player who was injured was allowed to be replaced (even in the last period…

The car came to a sudden stop. I looked up and we were at the rink in East Boston where I could see the airport. Overhead the airplanes roared like lions. I dashed out the car and grabbed my hockey bag. I ran into the rink thinking about the game. I was determined that I was going to score a goal because it was my first game I would be playing in. I was so nervous I was drenched in sweat scared like watching a horror movie at night. I was think about the game, and did not know what to expect.…

Introduction For a variety of reasons, ice hockey has reached a point where its growth has stagnated in its most popular countries. In these countries, participation rates are in decline and the popularity of ice hockey compared to other sports is also in decline. Fortunately for the International Ice Hockey Federation, also known as the IIHF, the sport of ice hockey has many countries that are waiting to be tapped into. These countries currently have low interest in hockey but, at the same…

Shot Stopping: Soccer vs. Ice Hockey Goalies Have you ever realized the differences between soccer and hockey goalies? They are different in their equipment, positioning, rebounds, penalties, and how they save different shots. I will describe how soccer and hockey goalies have differing shot-stopping abilities, but also tell you why these two goalies have a few important similarities. Soccer is a physical sport that is played with eleven players on a grass or turf field. The eleven players are…

the boards. The sound of skates on ice. The ringing of posts. The sound of goal horns and high fives. This is what I live for. This is hockey. Hockey has been in my life since I was four, and although I don't remember it, my parents remind me of the look and pure happiness upon my face when the puck would trickle across the line, causing me to then celebrate and fall down for the thousandth time. During harsh Minnesota winter nights, you could find me at the rink. Bundled up wearing layers of…