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Published May 23, 2012, 12:00 AM

PHOTO GALLERY: Cardboard dinghies on the Kinni


A big group of seniors from Prescott High School visited River Falls Friday, May 18, to do a fun-but-educational Physics exercise in the Kinnickinnic River, near the Swinging Bridge and South Fork of the river. Teacher Michael Kosmalski said he got the lesson idea at a teacher’s conference and that the seniors not only come to do their experiment in the Kinni, but also to hold their senior picnic in Glen Park after the ‘races.’ He said it was the 7th year for the kids to come and splash around for the year-end experiment; the Physics class floated a total of 10 cardboard boats.


Debbie Griffin photos

  • A big group of seniors from Prescott High School visited River Falls Friday, May 18, to do a fun-but-educational Physics exercise in the Kinnickinnic River, near the Swinging Bridge and South Fork of the river. Teacher Michael Kosmalski said he got the lesson idea at a teacher’s conference and that the seniors not only come to do their experiment in the Kinni, but also to hold their senior picnic in Glen Park after the ‘races.’ He said it was the 7th year for the kids to come and splash around for the year-end experiment; the Physics class floated a total of 10 cardboard boats.<br /><br /><br />Debbie Griffin photos<br />
  • Tressa Koukal (front) and Jaime Nitz paddle their cardboard Yellow Submarine through the course in the Kinnickinnic River, making it down and back.
  • Left to right, Aric Sandvig and Louis Kaufman row their boat, named Blood Rush.
  • Pictured right to left are Camille Swan, Anne Weinfurtner and Michael Kosmalski.
  • Kosmalski and the students said the Pine Cone was the first to overturn during the 2012 cardboard-boat races; it was carrying Katie Mutschler (pink hat, left) and Kellie Schaefer.
  • One student times each of the boat runs, after seven of 10 runs, this is the boat that had the fastest time, carried to the recycle trailer by Riley Johnson (left) and A.J. Moe.