Two weeks have past and Sci/Art Summer Program has ended. A part of me is happy about this; no more lectures in the early morning and no blogs or projects to worry about. However, another part of me feels sad. I will definitely miss all of my new friends and our counselors and teachers we […]
The first part of today’s lecture was focused on the pro’s and con’s of the inventions and ideas of today. Examples used were bombs, guns and knives, T.V. and internet. All of these can be used to hurt or help depending on the situation and intention. Most people characterize bombs , guns, and knives to […]
Our lecture today focused on how science and art lead a symbitic life. This can be seem in new technological inventions and ideas and art. We saw a video about a car show in Japan, showing new cars that can turn with its wheels in place, cars with smaller cars within them, and cars with […]
Today’s lecture was about how shapes are everywhere. We talked about how shapes of atoms, crystals and opals deeply affect their behaviors and appearances. And then we related shapes to art and architecture, the way artists express themselves through their pieces. There was a slide where they compared the universe to an atom; the sun […]
I learned a couple of interesting facts from the lecture. These included the face that humans were mainly made up of just protons and electrons. If all the water and space was extracted from our bodies, we would be 1/100 of a single strand of hair. This shows us how much of our body is […]
Today, I enjoyed the lab visits more than the lectures. When thinking about the day without my notes to remind me, the only things that come to my mind are the instruments we saw in labs. There was when we looked through an SEM microscope.. Another was in the Yang lab where we saw how […]
The lectures today focused on how nanotechnology could be used in subjects other than scientific engineering. Two examples the different teachers gave were the stem cell research, and silver nanoparticles. When they were talking about how they can grow cell sheets to cover up holes in organs, I started thinking of the movie iRobot I […]
Today we learned about all the different kinds of microscopes. I don’t remember all of them but the one that made an impression the most was the one where the depth and texture of the sample was determined by a needle being rolled over the surface and a laser being pointed to the top of […]