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Chris English
 |  cenglish@couriertimes.com

A tornado, hurricane and tsunami swept through New Hope-Solebury’s Upper Elementary School on Thursday.

But don’t call the Red Cross or National Guard. Instead of a swath of destruction, these natural disasters left looks of wonder and amazement on the faces of the 325 students on the grades 3-5 New Hope school.

Filing into the library in groups of 40-50 throughout the day, the scholars enjoyed trying out the brand new Google Pioneer augmented reality application.

With Asus ZenFones attached to selfie sticks, the scholars were capable of view three-dimensional moving images of the events that appeared as in the event that they were happening in the identical room. By moving around and twisting the sticks, the scholars could view the natural disasters from all angles, including from the within.

The application is just not available yet but is being tested out at various venues — including select schools across the country — said Jason Mero, a representative for Google contractor Vaco, which provided the phones and selfie sticks for Thursday’s event. His visit was arranged by New Hope-Solebury Technology Supervisor Amanda Benolken.

Fifth-grader MacKenzie Perez was overjoyed her school got picked for a tryout.

“Super cool,” she said of Google Pioneer. “To have the opportunity to view all these forces of nature from all different views was great. Going inside a tornado is not something you might physically do without dying.”

Learning about natural disasters, planets and other elements of science was more exciting this fashion than through a textbook or normal video, added fifth-grader Skylar High.

“Instead of just hearing about it, you might kind of see it happening,” she said. “You could walk around and watch it prefer it was actually happening. With the tsunami, you might see it construct up and return down.”

Fifth-grade teacher Yona Rose said he liked the pause feature within the demonstration that allowed him to stop whatever event his students were watching so he could add a couple of words of explanation.

“If you are looking at the underside, you are looking at 300 miles per hour winds,” Rose told his students while pausing the tornado.

“That’s probably the most destructive a part of a tornado, the part closest to the bottom,” he added.

Benolken said Google Pioneer is one other example of “meeting kids where they’re” in technology.

“It’s a unique way for them to interact with content,” she said. “It’s a perspective you definitely cannot get from a textbook or video.”

While Google applications are sometimes free, Mero said he didn’t know if that might be the case with Pioneer when it becomes widely available.

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