Hi All,
Welcome to
the Advanced STEM Research 2016-17 course. The moment you have signed up
for this course, you have also become a member of the most vibrant STEM
research group in the ElRo community. Advanced STEM Research is a
yearlong project-based course. The primary purpose of this course is to provide
students an opportunity for firsthand, supervised research in science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics fields.
In order to
facilitate the activities and assignments during the summer and in the new
academic year, students who have signed up for the course are required to
furnish the AdvancedSTEM Research Personal Profile 2016-2017 form. Please log into your
school email account before filling up the form, and don't forget to send
yourself a copy of your response at the end. The form is due midnight of
Wednesday (06/15/2016). Your timely and detailed feedback
will maximize your opportunity to land you in a project team of best match.
In addition,
we will have our MANDATORY Advanced STEM Research Meeting Thursday
(06/16/2016) at 11:45 am-12:15 pm in Room 201.
Here is the
agenda:
- Project teams/topics
- Summer research activities and
assignments
- Resource
Some of you
might need certain computer equipment to conduct your summer research. Please
use the attached Computer Loan Agreement Form for borrowing computers from school, and bring
back the signed form and the $200 check before the
last day of school.
Since the
meeting time will be very short (right between Physics Regents reviews ), we
won't have too much time for detailed discussion. If you have any questions,
issues, or suggestions, please email them to me ASAP. Thanks and see you
Thursday!
Mr. Lin
Thanks for your responses! At the beginning of the STEM projects, it is always extremely confusing, but exciting. Unlike most of the other subjects, we don't have any textbooks, fixed course contents or tests. Problems are what we really concern; grades are never at the center of the course. Currently, you are choosing the research areas that are interesting to you, identifying the problems that you are eager to wrestle with, finding partners who sharing the same vision, and participating in the process of defining your own projects for next year. Instead of viewing this as an ill-defined stage of the course, it is actually an important part of the STEM research process! Learning how to ask good questions or forming meaningful hypotheses is a major step in research. Your focus might change, your team might regroup, and your topic might become more specific as your understanding of the research field grows. It's a brand new learning experience! So, the following list is an evolving document. As you decide or change your topics or teams, just send me an email, and I will update the list accordingly. Hopefully this process will be settled down before the summer starts, and we can kick off our summer research!
