Category: Activities

Posted on: November 10, 2025 Posted by: Your Officers Comments: 0

Field Day

It was decided that for at least one of these meetings we needed to get everyone out of the depressing Howey Building and actually touch grass. Some played kickball while others playing badminton, then all of us pitched in to learn some cricket.

Posted on: November 10, 2025 Posted by: Your Officers Comments: 0

2025 Pumpkin Drop

Our 10th annual Pumpkin Drop was a spooky success! This year’s event actually landed on Halloween, so we saw a lot of cool and amazing costumes. This year’s fillings included fake blood, green oobleck, and colorful powder. We finished with a pumpkin piñata provided by Professor Fenton where many rummaged …

Posted on: September 11, 2025 Posted by: Your Officers Comments: 0

2025 Ice Cream Social

Using liquid nitrogen provided by Dr. Mourigal, SPS continues our Ice Cream Social tradition in the Howey Courtyard for the School of Physics. Faculty and students had the choice of vanilla or almond milk, and toppings like strawberries, pineapple, chocolate chip, and syrup. Thanks to everyone who came to enjoy …

Posted on: August 26, 2025 Posted by: Your Officers Comments: 0

2025 Formal – A Pixel Perfect Evening

This year, SPS’s formal revolved around video games we all love: Minecraft, Stardew Valley, and more. Our Formal Committee Chairs aimed for a cozy night of fun and celebrations, and our DJ made sure to amplify the vibes as our photographer captured moments in time.

Posted on: June 19, 2025 Posted by: Your Officers Comments: 0

2025 End-of-Year Celebration Cookout

Thanks to the Cookout Committee and School of Physics staff, we had an awesome end-of-year celebration, complete with a distinguished guest speaker, faculty superlatives, and delicious barbecue. We are going to miss all the graduated seniors greatly, and we wish them the best of luck in this next leg of …

Posted on: March 18, 2025 Posted by: Your Officers Comments: 0

2025 Pi a Physicist

Did you hear that? Yup, it’s time for the annual SPS Pi Day celebration, Pi a Physicist! Our lineup this year were SPS volunteers and officers (voluntold), and our victims eager physicists patiently staked out a post outside Howey, waiting for their inevitable creamy (and one eggy…) fates. Friends,  physics …

Posted on: March 18, 2025 Posted by: Your Officers Comments: 0

Pajama Study Party & Rocky’s Night

Prepare for the most ambitious (and unplanned) SPS crossover yet: Excellent Adventures and Physics Field Day (PFD)! Excellent Adventures kicked off the evening with a productive study session in our pajamas, complete with pizza and energy drinks. After members finished their work for the night, they headed over to Rocky’s …

Posted on: January 30, 2025 Posted by: Your Officers Comments: 0

Waffle Party

SPS hosted its annual waffle party open to the School of Physics (and those unaffiliated with it). Due to popular demand last year, our officers upped the supply this year to feed more people and include toppings like blueberries, whipped cream, and chocolate chips! We even crashed a lecture (with …

Posted on: January 9, 2025 Posted by: Your Officers Comments: 0

Smash Tourney with Emory SPS!

GT SPS partnered with Emory SPS to host a Super Smash Bros tournament, which was a smashing success! Teams of two paired up and entered the championship bracket, and only one emerged each round. The semifinals happened to feature a team of GT students and a team of Emory students, …

Posted on: November 12, 2024 Posted by: Your Officers Comments: 0

Pumpkin Drop 2024

Our annual pumpkin drop was a splattering success! This year’s fillings included fake blood, lavender oobleck, and even Real Analysis homework (it’s getting real). We finished with an awesome physics demo by Professor Fenton and Professor Greco: prepared with huge springs stretched by gravity, they dropped them without any applied …