EXAMPLE SUBMISSIONS

Clubs:
  • 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
On your own:
  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
Class:
  • 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