POTSDAM -- Students from several St. Lawrence County school districts attended the yearly Clarkson Impetus Camp last week.

The students have spent a year learning about physics and the inner workings of research teams as they planned and then developed roller coasters.

Skills learned during the year were put to use at Clarkson last week during the week long camp, as the teams from each school attended and worked on various aspects of the design phase of several roller coasters. Students took on the rolls and responsibilities of developers, planners and safety engineers.

Parents and family attended a special presentation on Friday to see the results. Computer simulations and posters depicting the development aspects were on display.

Clarkson physics professor Michael Ramsdell, pictured above, presented the groups work to the students and their families after a dinner.

Students won prizes for their work and had the opportunity to function as test subjects while wearing measuring equipment when they attended Six Flags amusement park to ride and experience roller coasters first hand last week as part of the camp.