Hey!
I finished my junior year a week ago, and I’m looking at majoring in physics when I go to college. I wanna beef up my list of extracurricular activities, while also doing something that I’m interested in (aka physics or chemistry).
At the moment I’m taking a calculus based Electricity and Magnetism course in two parts provided by Rice on the edX platform. Its very challenging but I find it very interesting. When I finish the course I’ll try to tackle two courses on Plasma Physics. I was wondering if this would technically count as an extracurricular, since it is academic but it isn’t related to what I’m doing in school.
Also I’m looking into doing some research at Queens University since its nearby, and also starting a club next year.
Any ideas on what else I could do? Perhaps related to volunteering too, because I could use more service hours!
Thanks!
It is tough for a HS student to find physics related ECs. My advice is to focused on STEM related ECs in general, and don’t worry too much about which area. My kid who did FIRST Robotics, programming club, a bluebird trail, and US Biology Olympiad was a physics major in college and had plenty of good schools to pick from.
You can list your courses on the common app.
I’m also interested in this. I’m a huge math nerd and taking math related classes on EdX/Coursera. (I’m an upcoming HS junior.) Do programming club or something! A lot of people don’t realize how much computer science physics has. (:
Science Olympiad! Also, do Science Bowl if it’s available in your area.
The answer for you is Baseball: https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/baseball-pitch-hits
If you can’t play it, maybe you can track it… New baseball stats like “Exit Velocity” are changing the way people play the game… Also: http://baseball.physics.illinois.edu/
And hey, hey - it’s fun to spend time at the old ball park. 
Go Cubs!
Baseball… that’s interesting and I’ll have to look into that. Equationlover, looks like we’re kind of the same haha.