It’s X-Period on Nov. 21, and 9th graders file into the Huss Center for a class meeting that follows a structure different than any other yet this year. This is the final round of the annual graph-matching contest, an event where a representative from each block’s physics class will compete for bragging rights and their face in the display outside the physics classroom in a rigorous test of graph-matching skill.

Contestants are shown a graph on the expansive projection screen and then asked to replicate that graph using a motion sensor attached to their body.

Physics teacher and Science Department Head Karissa Baker explained that “The point of it is to link it back to the velocity unit. We [as a class] just finished interpreting graphs last week, and so this is just kind of a chance to have fun with what we learned.”

Charlie Keillor was crowned victor.