Author Archives: Ben Esner

Bioengineering PriyaPriya Chacko is a rising senior in the Chemical and Biomolecular Enigneering program at NYU-Poly.  She is a participant in the Chem-Bio Technology Lab with Professor Jin Montclare. Working with the Center for K12 STEM Education, Montclare Lab personnel developed a high school course on Bioengineering Research and Practice.

As a high school student, I always wanted to learn more: more history, more English, more science. And while it was easy enough for me to pick up a history textbook or any number of literary classics, there was never enough science. Unfortunately, I was never exposed to the world of research either; all the learning I did was on my own or through my parents. It was a frustrating existence. Continue reading →

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DSC_8149-1Priyam Nidhi is a rising sophomore in the Computer Science Department at NYU-Poly. She’s an instructor in the K12 STEM Lab/BotCamp program, a partnership program with Makerbot.org.

 

 

My passion to share my love for science has brought me to the K12 STEM Lab. Being responsible for the problem-solving, circuits and coding aspects of the lab, I like working in a team where we help a rising generation of STEM students. Continue reading →

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Cindy Rom is a rising senior in Mechanical Engineering at NYU-Poly.  She and a team of five other students are instructors in Science of Smart Cities, one of our programs for middle school students. Watch this experiment that shows how hydroelectric power might be put to work in cities and hear about the week’s work on energy topics.

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DSC_8071-ARecent NYU-Poly Masters Degree graduates in Mechanical Engineering, Hussein Saab (right) and Hisham Touma (left). Here they describe the Science of Swing: a Robotics Activities for Math and Physics (RAMP) lesson. RAMP is integrated into a series of preparatory workshops and short courses for high school students in NYU-Poly’s research program Applied Research Innovations in Science and Engineering (ARISE). IMG_0187In the Science of Swing lesson, ARISE students were introduced to the history and the characteristics of pendulums. Students learned of the period’s dependence on the pendulum’s length and the period’s independence of the initial displacement and bob mass. Complementing this lecture was a hands-on experiment: groups of students built pendulums using the NXT Mindstorms kits and acquired experimental data by varying the bob mass, the initial position, and the length of the rod. The data collected by each group were analyzed to verify the principles taught in the previous lecture. Continue reading →

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Via David, a Brooklyn middle school student in NYU-Poly’s Science of Smart Cities program. …Towards the end of the day, I learned about power storage. I learned that I should save as much energy as possible and ways to improve our energy grid by incorporating network communication. At the end of the day we learned about new renewable resources like a hydrogen fuel cell. I did an activity in which I demonstrated the workings of a hydrogen fuel cell. I used nickel plates placed in water connected to a battery. This created a reaction that seperated the H2O into H2 and O. The H2 is used to generate energy. This produces

no harmful waste and is a efficient way to generate cleaner electricity. Continue reading →

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HellersteinNYU-Poly Professor Lisa Hellerstein, Computer Science and Engineering.  Prof. Hellerstein is a member of the Cybersecurity for Young Women project, a two-week course in coding and computer science, part of Professor Nasir Memon‘s broader CSAW program and competition.

Here, Prof. Hellerstein describes an innovative, hands-on lesson that kicked off the program. Continue reading →

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DSC_7997NYU-Poly Professor Vikram Kapila, Mechanical Engineering.  Prof. Kapila is the Principal Investigator for SMARTER, an NSF Research Experience for Teachers project.

The SMARTER project provides professional development to middle and high school teachers in STEM areas and in entrepreneurship.  This summer, 12 teachers are receiving mentoring and conducting inquiry-based, hands-on, engineering research in the exciting field of mechatronics through six-week long summer workshops. Continue reading →

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