Ci Activity: Physics Zipline Adventure
Unforgettable & mentally engaging
Unforgettable and mentally engaging - words that describe our Physics Zipline Adventure which is one of our many STEM activities designed to challenge the mind and engage the heart this summer at our Ci 2.0 7-day experience.
The Physics Zipline Adventure was one of the most favored STEM activities of Camp Infinity. Here is a summary of the STEM that students experienced in this event:
- build a clinometer
- used a straw, string, metal washer and protractor to make
- enables the user to measure an angle from horizontal

- measure the height of the towers
- measure the distance from where you stand to the base of the object of which you want to measure the height
- look through the straw portion of the clinometer at the position you of which you want to find the height
- the washer will hang from the string over the number on the protractor that corresponds to the angle
- using trigonometry you can calculate the height of the object if you know the angle and the distance you are standing from the object
- why? – it helps calculate the length of the cable the camper will ride which is used to calculate his speed
- determine how to calculate speed using a zipline simulator
- used to help campers figure out how to calculate speed
- gave opportunity to engineer and modify a carrier design

- ride the zipline and measure speed
- used a stopwatch to take the time measurements which were used with the distance of the cable to calculate the average speed


- collect & analyze the data
- afterward we did the math
- used trigonometry to solve for length of cable the campers rode and divided by time from stopwatch

To experience this and many other unforgettable STEM activities, apply for our
7-Day STEM & Worldview camp this summer!
Camp Infinity
Where Science & Technology Meet Truth