NEWTON'S ATTIC
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Mission Statement
Newton's Attic, a nonprofit founded in 1998 by Bill Cloyd, is dedicated to providing students with highly unusual educational experiences and providing STEM (Science Technology, Engineering Mathematics) educational resources to parents, students and teachers. Our mission is to stimulate interest in science and engineering through exciting hands-on projects, classes and summer camps.
About This Cause
Bill Cloyd, engineer and former high school physics teacher, is founder and president of Newton’s Attic, a highly unusual physics and engineering educational non-profit. From his youth, Cloyd was a natural engineer with a passion for designing and fabricating huge and complicated constructs that could be used to demonstrate both daredevil human feats and the principles of physics all in one. The 80 foot tower utilizing a circus net and tennis ball cannon to shoot falling human targets and the 40 foot trajectory human ‘lake launcher,’ still used by Lexington physics teachers, were early indications of Cloyd’s imagination and ambition. Frustrated by the confines of the classroom and exposed to the need of science and math teachers for resources to make their classes more appealing, Cloyd was inspired to create Newton’s Attic where he developed a highly engaging approach to educating students about the excitement, fun, and career opportunities available to them through physics and engineering. Using the concept of play as the ultimate learning tool, Cloyd now has a library of programs, including his foray into robotics competitions, that allow students to engage in hands-on design, fabrication and field-testing of their own mechanical devices in highly energized and competitive environments. These programs are now utilized by school districts, home-schoolers and in summer camps throughout Central Kentucky and even schools as far away as Colorado. Since the inception of Newton’s Attic, Cloyd has worked with numerous schools in Central Kentucky, including Jessamine, Scott and Woodford counties, numerous schools within Fayette County and with eastern Kentucky children through the Christian Appalachian Project as well as the University of Kentucky and Berea College. Newton’s Attic is now piloting a program where robots can be controlled over the Internet, which will allow for nation-wide and even world-wide competition. The addition of a large facility in May of 2012 has allowed Newton’s Attic to expand our programs to include after school programs, home school services, field trips, Scout camp-outs and birthday parties in addition to the ever-expanding summer camp programs. In the summer of 2015, Newton's Attic offered 34 unique camps for students ages 5 to 17 and served over 730 unique students who accounted for 1,140 registrations over the 12 week summer camp period. Cloyd is a professional engineer with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and is also owner of an engineering consulting company, Mark IV, Incorporated.