Students jump for science in Fleet Science Center's 50th anniversary event

By M.G. Perez, Education Reporter | Contributor: Carolyne Corelis, Video Journalist | KPBS

Did you feel it?

The ground moved, Tuesday morning, across San Diego county. But it didn’t quite make it to the Richter scale.

"This is about jumping for where we've been, jumping up for where we are, and jumping into the future," said Steve Snyder, CEO and President of the Fleet Science Center in Balboa Park.

The Center wrapped up its 50th-anniversary celebration with a collective jumping experiment. For a couple of minutes, at exactly 10:15 a.m. Tuesday, hundreds of people jumped, shook and moved to a Taylor Swift song blaring in the Fleet's main hall. Most of them were students from schools across the county on a field trip.

The idea was to get so much motion going that it could be picked up by handmade seismographs on the floor.

All of it was in the name of science, which is a subject most of the visiting students enjoy.

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