ROLLER COASTER

"“Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off”"

famous life saying.

Today, December 14 2009, the twelfth grade of the American School presented their “school-made-rollercoasters”. They had to create a rollercoaster that had at least two loops. It was an enormous challenge to put everything together. Some of them used ½ tubes others complete tubes or opened tubes. There were points taken off the more your tube was closed. This obviously made the “ride” more exiting and difficult to complete. The loops had to be calculated and the energy and the speed in which the marble rolled down the tube had to be exact. If something went wrong then they would lose points. They didn’t only used physics but art. They were also graded on their theme. They had to have an original idea to win over all the other. Some did: Alice in Wonderland. This one was full of color and had pictures of the actual movie this one was made by Ricardo Stein, Raffael Kollinger, Rodolpho de la Llanta. There was also FIFA soccer. At the end when the marble rolled to the last part it entered the goal. This was very creative from J. Rafael A., Paulina A. and Sandra Alvarez. Another very creative one was the Oriental Castle made by Eric S, Alicia and Heather. This was decorated with dragons, bamboo, and Light balloons. A very interesting theme was Victoria, Daniela and Andrea’s coaster. They used the theme of NY. It had pictures of time-square. The Jungle was made by the new students of 12^th garde. The sweetes was Mrifer, Melida and Lea’s Candy mountain. It was covered in candies and as a bonus they gave cotton candy. There was one made by Diego Tron, Ruslan Gomez ,Alex Riviere and Carlos Vital that suffered dmages when they were transporting it to school. In one of the bumps the coaster flew up and got destroyed.If they ever made them real I would ride all of them just to feel the different expreinces with everyone’s different theme.And creativity. They would attarct many visitors because they are so different from the "NORMAL" rollercoasters of amusment parks. All of them worked. The marbles rolled perfectly and they completed their ride. They did an amazing job. A lot of thinking and fixing but at the end they did it. Just like their project they had their us and their downs but they made it thorough the ride alive.