Hiphop physics education program comes to R.I.

A traveling hiphop physics education program – FMA Live! Forces in Motion – will visit middle schools in Portsmouth, Tiverton and Middletown this week to teach students about math and science.
The 11-year-old program, described as an interactive, traveling hip-hop concert that teaches Newton’s Universal Law of Gravity and Three Laws of Motion, is put on by Honeywell and NASA.
Portsmouth Middle School was visited on Monday; the program will be featured at Tiverton Middle School on Wednesday and at Joseph H. Gaudet Middle School in Middletown on Friday.
“As a technology-based company, it’s our goal to prepare the next generation of engineers, scientists and innovators, but to do that, you have to capture a student’s interest,” Mike Bennett, president, Honeywell Hometown Solutions, the company’s global corporate citizenship initiative, said in a statement. “With FMA Live! Forces in Motion, students are experiencing science and technology firsthand, rather than reading about it in a textbook. This show helps students understand how science and technology apply to their everyday lives.”
Named after Newton’s Second Law of Motion [Force equals Mass times Acceleration], FMA Live! uses music videos and interactive scientific demonstrations to teach and inspire students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
The program features live actors, hip-hop songs, music videos, interactive scientific demonstrations and video interviews with scientists and engineers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Honeywell Hometown Solutions is New Jersey-based Honeywell’s corporate citizenship initiative. Honeywell’s locations in Rhode Island include Smithfield, Warwick, Woonsocket and Cranston, although the latter is expected to close in 2016.