Gardening Robot- finale

  (Left to right: Lauren, Wendy, Linda, Haize) Core Competency: Social Responsibility  My self advocacy skills are still developing. Not just in a social setting, but in an academic setting as well. My perseverance could use a bit of work. A teacher once told me that I have a habit of “psyching myself out.” I think that my anxiousness impedes my perseverance sometimes, because I worry too much in general, over…

Thyroid Cancer

Part 1: The Story of Thyroid Cancer 1)  What effects does the cancer have on your host’s body? “Symptoms of advanced thyroid cancer include trouble breathing, a hoarse voice, difficulty swallowing, and even bone pain if the cancer has moved to the bones, said Dr. Michael Yeh of UCLA. When cells function normally, old ones die and new ones take their place. But sometimes, that process goes wrong. New cells…

Observing plant & animal cells

What do animal cells look like under the microscope? What cell structures are visible? Image A shows a round cell with “softer looking” cell structures. The difference between plant and animal cells are the number of contents within the cells, the structure of the cell as a whole, and the arrangement/shape of the contents. There are several possible cell structures visible in the photos; ribosome, endoplastic reticulum, or the edge of…

Solution Fluency- Gardening Robot

Define  As new plants are being discovered, so are different ways to maintain them. How can electricity be repurposed for benefiting the environment, while using as little time and physical energy as possible? The Gardening Robot relieves it’s user of many ailments that can come with being in a “hunched over” position for extended periods of time. Discover Landcare has become somewhat of an unspoken topic among young adults. More…

Static Electricity

Learning about the history of electricity was rather fun. It was interesting to watch how much of a mark it made on science. However, I am still curious as to why static electricity was one of the only fields of electricity explored at the time. The story behind the creation of Frankenstein is a good example. Conduction, friction, and induction were interesting to learn about because they occur sometimes in…