Simulate Before You Desecrate
Students always want to see the results of their work immediately, and they move on to the next challenge as soon as they solve the problem once.
Stanford Biomimicry Challenge: Bioneer Tower
The goal of this ETP is to expose students to the Biomimicry process of using innovation from nature to solve problems. We will be using AskNature.org to identify a design principal (function in AskNature.org), which will be applied in the construction of a tower.
Debate on Cost of Electricity Vs Gas Cars
Marathon Petroleum is a leading, integrated, downstream energy company.They operate the nation's largest refining system, are one of the largest midstream operators in North America, and have a nationwide retail and marketing business.
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Equations and Profit
This is a two-day math lesson where students will play the role of Cisco’s CFO and decide whether building a new campus makes financial sense for the company.
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Making Sense of your Data
At Lockheed Martin, I worked in the FBM Avionics department to understand the current systems and processes related to QNOTE closures. I was able to meet a myriad of engineers, technicians and other LM members who allowed me to see a glimpse of their work experience.
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The Statistics of Geostationary Lightning Mapper
The normal curve model (density curve) is a topic in statistics that is very vital to understand, to be able to succeed in grasping the concepts of probability models, which is a heavy focus in the AP statistics course.
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What Makes A Good Algebra Student
This two to three day lesson allow a students to create a hypothesis on what makes a good Algebra student, then analyze data in order to see if their hypothesis holds.
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An Activity You Can't Resist
When thinned to two-dimensions, materials demonstrate unique optical and electrical characteristics that fall under the purview of condensed matter physics. The process of thinning bulk materials is called exfoliation with graphene being the most documented.
AR Coating and Thin Film Interference
In this lesson students will apply knowledge of wave interference, light, refraction, reflection, transmission and conservation of energy in order to understand principles of thin film interference as they are applied in the development of anti-reflective coating for optical devices.