Nine-Year-Old Cymatics Student Wins First Place For Vibration Experiments

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Nine year old Lily Peirce of the United States won a blue ribbon at a science fair on February 27th, with her cymatics project documenting her vibration experiments, and her booth titled, “Cymatics.”

Lily has this to say about how she got started doing vibration experiments and her winning cymatics entry in the science fair:

“I saw a video on Youtube of people doing Cymatic experiments with sand on a plate. I also saw a video of Cymatics with corn starch.
I got interested from seeing the clouds formed from our Cymatic experiments.

“My project included: On my iBook I used ToneGen to produce the signal to the amplifier and then to the speakers. On one speaker I had a piece of matt board attached and on the other speaker I had a bowl of water attached. My video camera and brother’s iMac was used as a monitor so the people could see my Cymascope.”

The Journal of Cymatics congratulates Lily on her successful cymatics vibration experiments, and encourages all parents, teachers and students interested in learning about cymatics with sound waves lesson plans to be inspired by Lily’s work.

Here is a photo from Lily’s “cymascope” of a cymatics pattern created during the playing of “Dear Prudence” by the Beatles.

Great work and excellent cymatics documentation, Lily!

You can get your own sound waves lesson plans here, and you can download a free video instructions for making a simple cymatics sounder that kids can build to conduct their own DIY cymatics vibration experiments here.

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