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Mountain Pointe wins prestigious A+ honor

Physics teacher Phil Moon (left) watches Jordan Ranous demonstrate the effects of liquid nitrogen on small objects like pencils, flowers and apples. Within seconds, the objects were frozen to such a degree that when dropped they would shatter.

Mountain Pointe wins prestigious A+ honor

Physics teacher Phil Moon (left) uses a used plastic television screen to demonstrate to MPHS science students Wednesday the properties of a lens. If the right kind of lens is focused on an exact spot with continuous sunlight, Moon and students were able to set ablaze everything from a board (above) to old shoes to soda cans to even a penny.

Mountain Pointe wins prestigious A+ honor

MPHS physics students Destiny Ackerman (left) and Chelsea Huddleston look through a used plastic television screen that was used in a science experiment to demonstrate the properties of a lens.

Mountain Pointe wins prestigious A+ honor

Physics teacher Phil Moon looks through a used plastic television screen Wednesday while a student provides the MPHS teacher with a set of rabbit ears. Moon was teaching MPHS science students how a lens can set ablaze everything from a old shoes to soda cans to even a penny.

Mountain Pointe wins prestigious A+ honor

Physics students Chelsea Huddleston, Thomas Gibson and Alex Santos use a plastic television screen to refract the sun's light and burn a soda can Wednesday.