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!
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!
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