I don't know if Tom emailed this to you guys or not, but it's pretty darn cool so I thought I'd share. His physics kids were supposed to make towers out of 25 little sticks and glue. Then he tested them by putting weights on top of them to see how strong they were. One girl (the ditzy blond -- go figure) came up with this design that held up 280 pounds before they simply ran out of weights. Pretty cool. Things are still going well, and he even said the other day that he thinks he'd like to teach for a career. Thanks to all the schools downsizing, he probably won't get a teaching job for quite a while, but you never know. I'm just glad his student teaching has been such a positive experience for him.