This was hilarious! It was the blind leading the blind on this one. Courtney was going to have Bryan help her with her science experiment, but we were home with nothing to do so she decided I could help. Honestly, there was just too much we did wrong that it would take forever to explain.
The gist of the experiment is: Courtney wanted to know which turf field made the ball go the fastest. Her hypothesis was that the older fields would be faster because the softness would have worn out and the ball would be going on, basically, concrete. She was testing the fields at Snow Canyon, PineView, and Desert Hills.
This is Courtney's contraption with the soccer ball in its place at the soccer field at Snow Canyon High.
No, the app didn't work right, but it was completely user-error. We got the weirdest measurements but didn't know what we were doing so I thought it was great that we had part of her project done.
The next day, Bryan took her out to PineView to do the experiment on their field. After a bit, he realized that things were not going as they should. They ended up having to re-do all the previous work so that it would be accurate.
The app we were using was a baseball speed app so you had to push a button when the ball leaves the pitcher's hand and then again when it hits the catcher's mitt. We were just pushing the button once and trying to figure out why it wasn't recording anything. Also, the measurements were in miles per hour. Haha! The ball is lucky to go feet so that measurement wasn't accurate. It was great.
In the end, Bryan and Courtney figured it out, got the data from PineView and Snow Canyon, and Courtney knows what to do in order to get accurate data from Desert Hills.
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