Individual+Topic+Investigation

Individual Topic Investigation:

Carolyn Storch-beginning

** For our science project, I would like to create explosions. I would like to blow up things, such as fruit, because it sounds like a fun experiment or lab to participate in. In order too blow up objects, we would have to understand chemical reactions and air pressure. This topic could also relate to chemistry. **


 * MR.MLSNA SAYS THAT I CAN'T BLOW UP FRUIT, SO THE IDEA ABOVE IS NOT GOING TO BE MY FINAL PROJECT :( SOOOO SAD GUYS!!!!! I REALLY WANTED TOO BLOW UP FRUIT! LOL OH WELL...I DID A NEW ONE BELOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! **


 * Neonatalogist Career Investigation- **


 * For our science project, I would like to research neonatologists because that is what I want to be when I grow up. In our presentation, we might include the following things about neonatologists: **
 * ** The average yearly profit. **
 * ** What sort of things a neonatalogist may do in a day and who they might work with. **
 * ** What they might have to go to school for. **
 * ** The medical knowledge they might study. **
 * Where they might work.


 * A neonatalogist is someone who works with pre-mature babies. They usually have to work at a fairly big hospital or live in a big town. This job can be very stressful because of how many babies you might have to see die. I want too do this because I think it would be a neat topic to study because of what they do. Also, it would make us learn about a career that is a very important part of society. Lastly, I think it would be a fun topic to study because of how much technology they use and work with everyday. **

**Rachel Zorn Topic: Forensics!**

Forensics has many different things that can lead to an answer. Some of these steps include using lie detectors, taking someone’s fingerprint or taking someone’s D.N.A. I know quite a bit in this specific topic; so this is all that I know. Lie detectors can sometimes find if someone is telling the truth or not. Lie detectors will determine this by examining a person’s amount of perspiration, their heart rate, and their blood pressure. When a lie detector is used an investigator wills ask a person a series of questions and then look back at the results to determine if the are lying or not. Lie Detectors can be easily fooled though since people react differently to lying. The next thing someone can use is fingerprinting. Fingerprinting is recording someone’s fingerprint then comparing it to another to discover what he or she need to. Someone can discover a fingerprint using a powder that they dust over surfaces. A fingerprint can also be found by analyzing an object on a computer. Either using a powder or ink takes a fingerprint. D.N.A. can also be taken for the same uses as a fingerprint to compare to one thing to compare to another. D.N.A can be things like saliva. Someone’s D.N.A can be taken by something they had in the mouth like a water bottle or even taking just a swab from their mouth. I think we should do this project one because we can turn it into something fun like building a lie detector and investigating how these things are done. Another reason why I think that we should do this project is that we can learn a lot from it because beside from the few examples that I used there are many more other things that we could do in this category. The last reason why I think we should do this project is that this is something that would need a lot of research and something that could fill up our time very well in presentations because there is so much to talk about and I find it to be a very interesting topic.

**Emma Jore Topic: Mars Rovers and Landers** The most famous Landers are called the Viking 1 and the Viking 2. Both these Landers consider of two parts and orbiter and a Lander. These were important spacecraft because they gave humans a first glance at what mars is like. The Americans are the only people to have a Lander successfully land on mars. Currently there are 2 rovers on mars, Spirit and Opportunity. Sprit is currently out of commission because she got stuck in a sandpit and they could not get her out. Before she got stuck her two front wheels did not work. The reason though that she is decommissioned is that she had to face the frigid mars winter with no heat. Both of these rovers have out lasted there time by a lot because they were both supposed to last 90 days ,but instead Sprit lasted six years and Opportunity has lasted seven years so far and still going strong. NASA is going to deploy another rover, Curiosity, to space in august of 2012. The reason I think we should do this project is this is still an ongoing project. We also can all make paper models and maybe scale models. As I said before they are deploying curiosity soon so this would be a relevant topic because when we are finished it will almost be August.

The Superconducting Supercollider

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The Superconducting Supercollider (SSC) was a machine that would slam together particles with more than twenty times the energy than any other existing device to create Higgs Boson or “God Particle”. The “God Particle” was a particle that was presumably present a few seconds after the Big Bang. This was introduced in the 1980s. The site chose for this monumental experience was Waxahachie, Texas. Construction began in 1991; by 1993 the construction workers had dug about 30 KM of tunnels. ======

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When the construction was finished, the estimated cost was $8.25 billion. President Clinton and Congress cut off funding for the SSC because of the incredible budget. Therefore, the project could not continue because of no money. There are now vacant tunnels slowly filling with water and deserted facilities that once homed the Superconducting Supercollider. ======

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I think we should do this for our science project because it is historical and very important in the world of science. I think we would have more than enough information to make a fifteen-minute presentation. We would, of course, go into more detail about how the SSC worked and what Higgs Boson was. ======