Science-Environmental Chemistry Students investigate chemical aspects relating to the environment including acid rain, air pollution and water pollution. Technical English Students explore and develop skills in the areas of journaling, technical reading, technical writing and presenting scientific papers. In addition, a variety of enrichment math topics are also presented. Activities include a Chem. Field Day, a Physics Field Day, several design competitions, and a Science Olympiad.
Students compete in groups during the expo activities, with winning groups being presented awards.
Six two-hour time blocks are scheduled in the Instructional Technology Macintosh Lab. Students are presented lessons in word processing, spreadsheets, graphing and HyperCard. Students work in teams of 2-4 on research projects. This consists of developing a research question, forming a hypothesis, conducting a literature search, designing and conducting an experiment, drawing conclusions and communicating results through the writing of a scientific paper and presenting poster boards. Students present their research projects to judges using formal project display boards.