EXAMPLE SUBMISSIONS
Clubs:
You are interested in …
- Your club does a cool project or experiment, so you submit an article/description/picture. Example — math club does a project building hexaflexagons, so it writes article about what a hexaflexagon is, includes pictures, and a video of the transformations
You are interested in …
- architecture, so you explain the workings/science/math behind your architectural creation
- comics, so you write your own math/science comic a la XKCD
- computers, so you create a program and show a picture of it with some accompanying code and a description
- discoveries, so you read an article about math/science, do some additional research, and write a short article. Example — you read about the Large Hadron Collider in the NY Times, so you research it and write a short article about it
- history, so you investigate the historical origins of some math/science topic or person
- jokes, so you come up with a funny math/science joke. Record a video of you telling it.
- math and science, so you write about why you like math and science
- music, so you explain the physics/math behind music
- new technology, so you write a review about new computers or gadgets coming out
- photography, so you take a photograph of something mathematical/scientific. Example — the cables in the Brooklyn Bridge
- pursuing a math/science career (example — astrophysics), so you approach a mathematician/ scientist/astrophysicist to see if you can interview him/her. Do the interview and either video it, audio record it, or type it up.
- puzzles, so you create your own/investigate a puzzle or problem. Example — sudoku or Ken Ken or the ones Mr. Shah posts on his mini-bulletin board
- sciematicians, so you read a biography of mathematician/scientist (example — physicist Richard Feynman) and write a book review
- 9th grader who visits the power plant in the Navy Yard writes about the experience and what kinds of questions it raises for them
- 10th grade chemistry student who made a “Periodic Tables of What?!” poster submits a picture of it with a description of the modern periodic table and how their table is designed to show similar kinds of trends in “properties” of “elements”
- Biology students who wrote a journal entry about energy and renewable resources in the presidential debates could:
- submit the journal entry as is
- write an opinion piece based on research about energy policy and where the administration should go with this
- interview a scientist in the area involved in alternative energy research
- Curious George hears about something weird and interesting in class – like Godel’s Incompleteness Theorem or Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle – and investigates it. They write up a couple of paragraphs explaining what they learned
- Geometry student takes pictures for the photo project, selects four or five of their best ones, and describes what they represent
- Organic chemistry student researches molecule, includes pictures and a short summary of its description and uses
- Science student conducts a [physics/chemistry/biology] lab, comes up with some cool pictures, and sends them in
- Statistics student conducts study at packer attempting to find statistical significance between two variables. Includes data, graphs, and summary of results. Example — distance of home from school and number of lates
- Science research student
- Submit data, graphs, charts
- Visual representation of data with summary
- Summaries of journal articles
- Research paper or poster