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Author Topic: Celebrate International Spinning Top Day- this Wed. Oct 9, 2024- Spin Your Tops!  (Read 478 times)

toplady

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Get out all of YOUR TOPS and SPIN them on Wed. Oct. 9, 2024...
This is the annual Top Spinning Day---- all around the world!

It is a Challenge and a Celebration:
-a challenge to get the LARGEST NUMBER OF SPINS worldwide!
-a celebration of the scientific fact that THE WORLD IS A TOP!
-and just plain, old, ageless FUN!

Email the Spinning Top Museum with your total number of spins, city/country, location (school, beach, university, senior center, your breakfast table, break room, city park, etc....) and photos, too, please. Email: thetopmuseum@hotmail.com by Sat. Oct 12, 2024.

Each time you start a top spinning, it counts as a spin!   
Spin solo and/or get your neighbors, friends, and co-workers to spin tops on this day.

(The spins & photos must be on this day, Oct. 9, 2024;  to count in this challenge.)

This Spinning Day was started about 20 years ago by the Top Lady (aka Judith) at the Spinning Top Museum in Burlington, Wisconsin. 
>  Since then the National Science Foundation has recommended it as a classroom activity, Family Fun Magazine wrote about it, it was mentioned on National Public Radio, and adults & kids have taken part all around the world.  From a professor in Poland, 200 students in Romania,  a High School art class in Hawaii, a library in Texas,  to a pastor in Ohio! And! State university students in Kansas made tops and the local TV station covered their spinning! 
See a few photos on: https://www.topmuseum.org/20.html


Spin wherever you are in the world that day....
and in case you are in Burlington Wisconsin USA  that day, free top spinning from 12 noon-6pm CST in front of the Spinning Top Museum.  Stop by.
Thanks!
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ta0

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Yeah! That time of the year!  8)

I think my photo might involve a sword  :-X
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the Earl of Whirl

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I am in.  Maybe some others also from Miamisburg?

https://nationaltoday.com/international-top-spinning-day/
« Last Edit: October 09, 2024, 08:40:48 AM by the Earl of Whirl »
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the Earl of Whirl

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Well, it looks like ISTD is here!!!
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jim in paris

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have a top day !

jim
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Jim: I count 16 finger tops on that photo but the note says that 15 tops were spun: which one failed to spin?  ;D

Have a great International Top Spinning Day everybody!

PS: I need to start spinning!
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the tiny origami spinner couldnt make it!🤨

MUCH FUN WITH THE REST

jim
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ortwin

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Ah, I was not prepared for this. I spend a few days in Leipzig with the family. I could only spin the 15 tops I brought with me anyway plus the one my wife bought for me here.



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Ah, I was not prepared for this. I spend a few days in Leipzig with the family. I could only spin the 15 tops I brought with me anyway plus the one my wife bought for me here.

You take 15 tops on a regular family vacation trip? I'm impressed! You are a true spinner!
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HAPPY INTERNATIONAL TOP SPINNING DAY 2024!!!



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DaneMartin049

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Here’s my stash. I only got the Duncan’s, the Spintastics, the YYJ and the YYF spinning today.

 https://imgur.com/a/8Uw0cin
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...

You take 15 tops on a regular family vacation trip? ...


I still try to draw my wife and the kids into spinning. So I need to be able to supply them with equipment when the moment is right.
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I had a pretty good ISTD.  I got a lot of people to spin.  I gave out a lot of tops.  I spun a lot of tops myself.  And to top it all off, in the evening, the people in the bar were making up spinning games with my  tops and were cheering and yelling like crazy over one of their activities.  I am already looking forward to next year!!!
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