Invent Center Mission
To invent means to produce something for the first time through the use of the imagination and/or ingenious thinking and experimentation. This definition exemplifies the educational opportunities our AC students have through our Invent Center for STEM and Innovation. Whether in the student-designed research projects from our upper school Science, Writing and Research course or through the fierce competition of our lower school robotics team, we encourage our students to develop critical and innovative thinking. Students actively solve authentic problems and overcome challenges every day in our courses and programs. A fundamental part of the science and engineering process is also communicating and sharing what was learned. An integral part of our program at AC is that students share their work, making an impact on their peers and our community, locally and globally.
Students at @acsrochester have been participating in @canstruction - a design and build competition with cans of food that are donated to local food banks. Can you identify their designs?
The beautiful 29 mile long Allen Creek watershed flows through the @acsrochester campus. We're hoping to be able to offer more watershed education to the local community with the help of a NY Great Lakes Small Grant!
Congratulations to all our Science Writing and Research students, who presented their year long research projects last Friday. A rigorous scientific research course like SWR is unique to @acsrochester and a national rarity. #stemROCs #STEMeducation
Happy Saturday! @acsrochester students are spending this sunny Sat morning drinking coffee and hot cocoa and prepping for a coding challenge. About to hit the buzzer to start @lockheedmartin #codequest21! #cseducation #stemROCs
Happy Earth Day! We will be celebrating Earth Day and Arbor Day at @acsrochester next week with service learning on our campus - doing our part to steward our tiny corner of our delicate, complex and necessary planet.
Did you know that these @acsrochester #WomenInSTEM were scientists in product engineering, dolphin behavior, offshore oil, disease pathogenesis, astrophysics and mathematics before they were teachers? #WomensHistoryMonth
Dr. Donna Strickland is one of only three #WomenInSTEM to have won the Nobel Prize. She received her PhD from @urochester for developing "the shortest and most intense laser pulses known to man." PC: https://www.rochester.edu/2020-celebration/donna-theo-strickland/ #WomensHistoryMonth
Today's highlight for #WomensHistoryMonth and #WomenInSTEM is from just down the road @cornelluniversity. Dr Melissa B. Davis studies the disparity in COVID-19 and breast cancer outcomes for people of different heritages. PC: https://research.cornell.edu/news-features/heritage-and-health-discrepancies
Ah, chirality...the bane of every organic chemistry student's existence. Chien-Shiung Wu, today's #WomenInSTEM, discovered the concept, yet two male scientists received a Nobel prize for the work. #WomensHistoryMonth PC: https://hackaday.com/2017/09/28/there-is-no-parity-chien-shiung-wu/
Part of the BioNTech team that developed the mRNA basedCOVID-19 vaccine, Dr. Ozlem Tureci is our #womaninSTEM today. An interesting fact about Dr. Tureci is that although she is a billionaire, she and her husband bike to work and do not own a car.
Today's woman in science is @acsrochester junior Mary Cotter, who won the regional science fair along with her sister Liza Cotter to become an ISEF finalist with @society4science.
As a finalist, Mary competed at the International Science and Engineering Fair just like one of NY's representatives, who won a major ISEF prize in 2007.
Saturday, Mary will again compete at the regional science fair along with AC students Marlin Bassett and David Huang.
Best of luck to all of you!
PC: https://www.societyforscience.org/blog/intel-isef-alumna-headed-to-capitol-hill/
Today's woman in science is Kizzmekia Corbett, an immunologist working in viral pathogenesis at NIH who helped to develop the mRNA based COVID vaccine. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00338-y #WomenInSTEM #WomensHistoryMonth
Ran out of time yesterday so here's 2 awesome #WomenInSTEM and both are alumni of @ACSRochester! Dr. Katie Hammer graduated early from UR Med to fight COVID in April 2020 https://buff.ly/3lqqaeG and Alexandra Cok is a chemist creating new polymers. https://buff.ly/397gvoz
I used to tell the story of Beatrix Potter and her discovery of the symbiotic nature of lichens to hikers when I was a naturalist for the AMC. Apparently there is some controversy now on whether that credit is due, but one thing is true, "She should get credit for her openness to speculation, her careful and thoughtful observation of several species of lichens and algae and her courage as a female to speculate in a professional field.” https://buff.ly/2DappAS PC: Armitt Museum #gratuitousdogpicture #womeninSTEM #womenshistorymonth
Today's woman in science is Katelin Schutz @Katelinsaurus, who studies astronomy and cosmology, and is a graduate of @acsrochester! Her latest paper - The Galactic potential and dark matter density from angular stellar accelerations. https://buff.ly/3exevsV #WomensHistoryMonth
Henrietta Swan Leavitt, today's woman in science, was an astronomer whose research on Cepheid variables informed Hubble's Law. Leavitt lost her hearing early in her career, but continued her important work at the Harvard Observatory. HT to @acsrochester astronomy teacher Chrissy Colson! PC: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/07/henrietta-swan-leavitts-research-transformed-astronomy/
Florence Nightingale - well known as a nurse, but did you know she was the first female member of the Royal Statistical Society? A pioneer in data analysis, it was her chart that proved that hospitals killed more soldiers in the Crimean war than wounds. #WomensHistoryMonth #womeninscience
Today's woman in science is Sylvia Earle - first female chief scientist of #NOAA and holder of the women's record for solo deep dive in a submersible (1000m.) She's one of my heroes!
Second pic is the closest I ever got to being as cool as Her Deepness.
In March, I've taken on the challenge of posting a new woman in STEM daily.
Today is Ada Lovelace, one of the first to discover the science of computing and algorithms, and the namesake of Lady Ada and @adafruit - makers of fun hardware and tools for makers and engineers of all ages.
#choosetochallenge #womenshistorymonth