Springfield Public Schools, Springfield, MO

What stops a wheel from spinning? Why does a toy car go faster on a flat surface than on a bumpy one? How does a hula hoop stay up?🛞🚘⭕️ These are all questions Discovery Center Springfield sought to help students understand at this week. A representative from Discovery Center Springfield visited 10 Explore summer learning sights to talk to fourth graders about the laws of motion.

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SPS offers many ways for students to get a jump start on their career dreams, but the swearing in of two students as junior police officers before they even started kindergarten was a new record.👮🌸🚓 After hearing the two students speak enthusiastically about their dreams of one day becoming police officers at a recent Board of Education meeting, Chief of School Police Jim Farrell made a special stop by Shady Dell Early Childhood Center to deputize the two new junior officers, Paislie and Nathalie.

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