Yale hosts Physics Olympics
What do tie-dye togas, retro headbands and bathrobes have to do with physics? Most Yale students would probably say not much — at least not in their lab classes.
But on Saturday, 200 high school students in wacky costumes gathered on the Science Hill quadrangle for the 10th annual Physics Olympics at Yale — an all-day competition between representatives from 40 high schools from around Connecticut, Rhode Island and New York.
During the competition, which was sponsored by the Yale Physics Department and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the 50 participating teams came up...
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