HSC Student Projects

  1. Graduate students – coming soon!
  2. Grade 12 = Senior Design Project (still being developed but here is a sneak peek!)
    1. Call for Projects – Students review and choose from a list of local science projects.
    2. Students spend 1-2 semesters engineering and performing science for their project
    3. Presentation on engineering principles
    4. Final presentation
  3. Grades 10-11 = SHAMN – High School
    1. Presentation on instrumentation
    2. Presentation on manufacturing/prototyping
    3. Creating sensor suite
    4. Placing sensor suite
    5. Taking data
    6. Graphing data
    7. Comparing to weather pattern
    8. Suggest hypotheses and test them
  4. Grade 8-9 = EOSS – Middle School
    1. Presentation on atmospheric layers
    2. Presentation on instrumentation
    3. Take data on balloon up to 100,000 ft
    4. Graph the changes and visualize layers
    5. Suggest hypotheses and test them
  5. Grades 5-7 = SHAMN – Elementary School
    1. Presentation on instrumentation and how it works
    2. Taking data at the school from own weather station
    3. Comparing it to data from across the borough
    4. Analyze current weather picture
    5. Suggest hypotheses and test them