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Navy and Marine Corps Force Health Protection Command (NMCFHPC) participated in the Joint Base Langley-Eustis (JBLE) and Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association International (AFCEA) Tidewater Chapter, Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) day at the Tidewater Integrated Combat Symposium (TWICS) May 8, 2024. The event, held at the Hampton Roads Convention Center, in Hampton, Virginia, was aimed at providing students with hands-on interactions and expose them to potential career pathways. NMCFHPC staff established a booth to educate the students about gravity and buoyancy, as well as robotics, computer programming, and cybersecurity. NMCFHPC staff established a booth to educate the students about gravity and buoyancy, as well as robotics, computer programming, and cybersecurity. During the event, Lt. j. g. Kerry Day, an environmental health officer at the Navy and Marine Corps Force Health Protection Command, performs a demonstration at the Flinkers station for the students. The Flinkers experiment measures the buoyancy of the objects that the students construct and place into the water. According to the Archimedes Principle, an object partially or fully emerged in a fluid will experience a resultant force pushing up on it equal to the weight of the volume of fluid displaced by the object. This vertical force is called the force of buoyancy. The buoyant force on an object is equal to the weight of the volume of water displaced by the object. When the weight of the object submerged is equal to the upward buoyant force exerted by the water, the object is neutrally buoyant, so it doesn’t sink or float, it flinks. (Navy photo by Desmond Martin)