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Project Overview PDF

Station 1: 10 Nanometers | ^ Top

Technology:

Build a Single Slit Photon Interference Array
Goal:
Explore the interference pattern that emerges from light’s wave and particle duality

Science:

Topography
Nano Structures
Crystals

Art:

Micro structures and color
Buckminster Fuller
Explore symmetry

Literature:

"The Diamond Age" by Neal Stephenson
"Nanotechnology for Grades 1-6+: Introducing Nan and Bucky dog" by Andrea Harmer
"The Elegant Universe" by Brian Greene

Math:

Differential equations & partial differential equations
Trigonometry
Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle (/\X * /\P = h / (4 * pi))

History:

Newtonian Physics vs Quantum Physics
The effects of molecular research on medicine
The Singularity

Biography:

Richard Feynman

Station 2: 10 Micrometers | ^ Top

Technology:

Build a Simple Scanning Tunneling Microscope
Goal:
Image a carbon and a sodium atomic array

Science:

X-Ray Crystalography
Electrons and Photons
Chemistry

Art:

Pigments and color
Butterfly Wings & Peacock Feathers
Patterns in nature

Literature:

"Adventures With Atoms and Molecules: Chemistry Experiments for Young People - Book I" by Robert Mebane
"Fantastic Journey" by Isaac Asimov
"MicroAliens: Dazzling Journeys with an Electron Microscope" by Howard Tomb

Math:

Linear Equations
Logarithms
Significant Numbers

History:

The Periodic Table of Elements
The impact of plastic on society
The impact of steel on society

Biography:

Wilhelm Röntgen

Station 3: 100 Micrometers | ^ Top

Technology:

Build a Simple Microscope
Goal:
View an amoeba

Science:

Refraction
Microbiology
Pathology

Art:

Pointillism
Hieronymus Bosch
Macro photography

Literature:

"Guns,Germs and Steel" by Jarrod Diamond
"Medieval Medicine And the Plague" by Lynne Elliott
"Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift

Math:

Statistics
Division and multiplication
Exponents

History:

The Germ Theory of Disease
The rise of the modern city
Penicillin and antibiotics

Biography:

Antony van Leeuwenhoek

Station 4: 1 millimeter | ^ Top

Technology:

Build a Newtonian light splitting prism
Goal:
View the visible light spectrum

Science:

Spectral Differentiation
Visible vs Invisible Light
Matter/Energy conservation

Art:

Stained glass
Batik
Impressionism

Literature:

"The Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum
Norse Mythology
"Newton's Principia" by Sir Isaac Newton

Math:

Calculus
Quadratic Equations
Sine and Cosine

History:

The development of the telegraph
The Industrial Revolution
The advent of Photography and Cinema

Biography:

Isaac Newton

Station 5: 1 meter | ^ Top

Technology:

Build a simple Camera Obscura
Goal:
Capture an image on paper using heat, light, and a chemical reaction

Science:

Optical Illusions
Quantum Electrodynamics
Enzymatic and chemical reactions

Art:

The Caves of Lascaux
Renaissance
Edgar Degas

Literature:

"The Republic" by Plato
"The Portrait of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
"Criticizing Photographs: An Introduction to Understanding Images" by Terry Barrett

Math:

Matrices
Geometry
Graphing numbers

History:

The Renaissance
The Civil War
The age of mass communication

Biography:

Leonardo Da Vinci

Station 6: 100 meters | ^ Top

Technology:

Build an Arduino processor with an LED
Goal:
Build a simple LED array on a microcircuit breadboard

Science:

Electromagnetism
Analog versus Digital
Energy

Art:

Digital Art
Video Games
Desktop Publishing

Literature:

"Snowcrash" by Neal Stephenson
"2001: a Space Oddysey" by Arthur C. Clarke
"The Bromeliad Trilogy" by Terry Pratchett

Math:

Number Set Theory
Algorithms
Computational Arrays

History:

The information revolution
Moore's Law
The Development of the Factory Assembly Line

Biography:

Charles Babbage

Station 7: 1 kilometer | ^ Top

Technology:

Build a simple led driven light sensor
Goal:
Capture an image digitally

Science:

Electrons
Wave Theory
Signal processing

Art:

Cinema
Photography
Hyper-realism in modern art

Literature:

"Hamlet" by William Shakespeare
"Rear Window" by Alfred Hitchcock
"Leaves of Grass" by Walt Whitman

Math:

Angles and radians
Square Roots and Fractions
Proportional Relationships

History:

The digital revolution
The Development of Robotics
Television

Biography:

Eric Fossum

Station 8: 1,000 kilometers | ^ Top

Technology:

Build a simple radio receiver
Goal:
Capture a radio signal and adjust for other signals

Science:

Maxwell’s (Gauss, Ampere & Maxwell’s) Equations
Topographics
Electrical Resistance

Art:

Foley Recording
Music Videos
Album Art

Literature:

"War of the Worlds" broadcast by Orson Wells
"The Great Gatsby" by F Scott Fitzgerald
"Thunderstruck" by Erik Larson

Math:

Sine and Cosine
Square Roots
Topology

History:

The telecommunications revolution
The rise of advertising and media
Global Markets

Biography:

Nikolas Tesla

Station 9: 100,000 kilometers | ^ Top

Technology:

Build a simple reflective telescope
Goal:
Explore the craters of the earth’s moon

Science:

Refraction
Spectroscopy
Luminescence

Art:

Perspective
Landscape painting
Light and Shade

Literature:

"Journey to the Moon" by Jules Verne
"Galileo's Daughter" by Dava Sobel
"Contact" by Carl Sagan

Math:

Measurements
spherical trigonometry
Pi and Phi

History:

Copernican revolution
Advances in optics
Satellite communications

Biography:

Galileo Galilei

Station 10: 1,00,000 kilometers | ^ Top

Technology:

em>Build a simple reflective telescope
Goal:
View the moons of Jupiter

Science:

Optics
Chromatic aberration
Spectrum of light

Art:

Chromatics
Proportions
Space art

Literature:

"War of the Worlds" by HG Wells
"A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle
Greek Mythology

Math:

LaGrange Points
General Relativity
Elipses

History:

The technological revolution
The modern worldview
Globalization

Biography:

Johannes Kepler

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