World Spin Day is Wed. Oct. 8, 2025! Help get thousands of spins around the world!

[toplady]

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Please Print and share the little poster shown below...
send it to friends, family, local schools, physics professors, and....everyone you know. (Thank-you)

Get out your tops and spin all day, then email us total # of spins, your location, photos (too!)
Who in this forum will submit the greatest number of spins that day?
Each time you start a top, it counts as a spin!
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..............Here is all the info....
ANNUAL WORLDWIDE FREE
TOP SPINNING EVENT - Wed. OCT. 8, 2025

You can be part of the free, world-wide event
called International Top Spinning Day on Wednesday, October 8,
wherever you are in the world that day.

The unusual & free event was created more than 20 years ago by the non-profit, educational Spinning Top Museum in Burlington, Wisconsin. USA. Top Spinner & Collector Judith D. Schulz created the event as a way to have fun spinning tops and to celebrate the scientific fact that the earth is a big spinning top. The goal is to get at least 10,000 spins from around the world on that day.

It’s free to take part wherever you are: at home, at school, at work (on break, of course.) “The earth spins around a single axis, just as toy spinning tops do,” said Schulz, director of the Museum. She added “each time you start a top spinning it counts as one spin, so spin lots of tops, or one top over and over and then share your total with the museum by email.”

Students, adults, and groups around the world spin tops at schools, universities, libraires, churches, group meetings and more. In past years participation was in Montana, Iowa, Kansas, Texas, Florida, Wisconsin, New York, Minnesota, Hawaii, Illinois, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Africa, Spain, Israel, England, Poland, Paris France, Portugal, Corsica, and even 200 students in Romania; plus many other locations. A few photos are on the museum's website www.topmuseum.org.

The National Science Foundation[/u] wrote about it, recommending it as a classroom activity; and Family Fun Magazine has written about the event. National Public Radio made mention of it, too.

Top spinners & Top Collectors, Families, schools, nursing homes, libraries, businesses, co-workers, and scout troops are all encouraged to take[/u] part[/u]. Schulz also suggests putting out a non-breakable plate with a toy top or two on it or a set of trays with tops in them, and a place to record how many spins. Finger spinner tops work well because you can quicky start them over and over, getting a large total of spins. If you don’t have a top, make a top, or stop by the Top Museum’s gift shop to buy a variety of tops.

Science teachers use this Worldwide Celebration as an introduction to studies of the earth, planets, inertia, momentum, and gyroscopic stability. Reading teachers spin-off the event and challenge their students to see how many words they can find tin the dictionary related to this topic. Art teachers connect spinning tops with an introduction to optical illusions and radial symmetry. Foreign language teachers ask students to describe the activity of spinning so many tops. Math teachers ask students to record and chart the number of spins and use mathematical terms in summary, and describe the geometry of the top and spinning patterns.

Participants are asked to please send an email and small jpg. photos of their participation for documentation of this worldwide event to thetopmuseum@hotmail.com. Include your name, group name, ages, address, email, phone number, how many people participated, how many “Spins” total, and comments. Selected information and summaries may be used on the Top Museum website.
Spin a top, over and over, wherever you are for this worldwide happening.

If you are in downtown Burlington WI October 8, free top spinning is offered in front of the museum from noon-6. The non-profit, Top Museum is located at 533 Milwaukee AV, Burlington, Wisconsin with information at www.topmuseum.org and on the Facebook page: Spinning Top & Yo-Yo Museum. Call (262) 763-3946 for more information.

[ta0]

Wonderful!

I'll be in Mexico the 8th, so I'll make sure we honor World Spin Day among the players already there.
By just 4 days it's not going to coincide with the attempt to break the current record of most players throwing a top together, according to Guinness (891), Sunday 12th.

[toplady]

Wonderful!!!
Hope for Lots of spins in Mexico On Wed. Oct. 8!

[Chris Watts]

At least 6 spins in MN with 1 of those in Illinois from the Watts family tomorrow.
Looking forward to see how many spins around the world are documented.

Cw