Hey to Blind Brook High School, Hickory High School, and Terrill Middle School

It's Adopt-a-Physicist time again, and I've been "adopted" by three classes: Susan Kelly's class at Blind Brook High School in Rye, NY; Lisa Edwards's class at Hickory High School in Hickory, NC (insert your own Hoosiers joke); and Suprit Dharmi's class at Terrill Middle School in Scotch Plains, NJ. So here's a shout-out to all of them, and their students.

Amusingly, my fellow adoptees include at least one occasional commenter on this blog, and somebody I know from NIST. Small world.

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