2023-2024 Group 4 Project

• Science & Engineering in Hot Topics!!!

  • Senior IB Students

    • Design Tech, Computer Science,  Biology, Physics, Chem & TOK

      • Meeting Times - (10 hours total)

        • 12/7/23 - 1:00-2:30 (1.5 hr.) - In Engineering (8th) (Nick, Ann, Eddie, Jo)

        • 12/14/23 - 11:00-12:30 (1.5  hr.) - In Library - Library Resource Guide (4th) (Cacia, Kim, Eddie, Jo, Ann)

        • 12/18/23 - 12:30-2:30 (2 hrs.) - Group Work Time (8th)

        • 12/21/23 - 9:00-11:00 (2 hrs.) - Group Work Time (4th)

        • 12/21/23 - 12:00-3:00 (3 hrs.) Presentations (5th)

          • 11:45 - Pizza, drinks, cookies???

        • Group 4 Rubric

      • Potential Topics

        • Building a US/Mexico border wall

        • Ukraine, World Conflicts

        • Drought and Wildfire

        • Healthcare for all in US

        • COP27 - Egypt (Paris Climate Accord)

        • CO2 emissions and attempts to regulate

        • 2nd Amendment or Gun Control?

        • DNA Sequencing Algorithms

        • Electric Vehicles (EV)

        • Autonomous Vehicles

        • Machine Learning

        • Cyber Security

        • Vaping

        • Affordable Housing/Open Space???

        • Minimum Wage

        • Vaccines

        • Clean Energies

        • 100% Renewable Energies by 2030???

        • Fracking in Colorado & the US

        • Dealing with Raising Sea Levels

        • Carbon Sequestration

        • BioFuels

        • Recycling (Good or Bad???)

        • Water Rights, Storage & Distribution

        • Artificial Intelligence (AI) - (Ethics, Bias, Influence...)

        • Meta-verse

        • Augmented Reality(AR) and Virtual Reality (VR)

        • Plastics (The good, the bad, the ugly.)

Group 4 Reflection

Mrs. Steensen's Magical Project Proposal Form

Group Presentations 

• Team 1 - Water Rights, Treatment & Distribution

  • • Cebrian, Marcos (CS, Physics)

    • Reisel, Maya (Chem)

    • Thompson, Sydney (Bio)

    • Andersen, Craig (Physics, DT)*

• Team 2 - Public Transit

  • • Eisenstein, Dawson (CS, Chem)

    • Sbrocca, Octavia (Bio)

    • Villareal, Devon (Physics)

    • Schwartz, Sadie (Physics, DT)*

• Team 3 - Fracking (Oil & Gas Production) 

  • • Hartmeyer, Carl (CS)

    • Cutforth, Elyse (Bio)*

    • Hultgren, Joseph (Physics, DT)

    • Greco, Dylan (Physics, DT)

• Team 4 - AI Drones/Weaponry 

  • • Manning, Jack (CS)

    • Choi, Tatum (Bio, DT)

    • Larsen, Peyton (Bio)

    • Hollender, Lucas (Physics, DT)

    • Rini, Mario (Physics)

• Team 5 - Clean Energy (Biofuels)

  • • Follmar, Jojo  (Chem, DT)

    • Wirth, Benjamin (Bio)

    • Olbrich, Levi (Physics, DT)

    • Trask, Sasha (Physics, DT)

• Team 6 - Managing Urbanization

  • • Harvey, Skylar (Chem)

    • Kemp, Sebastian (Bio, DT)

    • Peterson, Kate (Bio)

    • Hicks, Logan (Physics, DT)*

• Team 7 - Carbon Sinks & Sequestration

  • • Mitchell, William (Chem, DT)

    • Kahn, Stella (Bio)

    • Ogilvie, Rowan (Bio, DT)

    • Medeiros, Adam (Physics)

    • Schuler, Alden (Physics, DT)*

• Team 8 - 100% Renewables by 2030

  • • Khan, Zoya (Bio, DT)

    • Lee, Hudson (Bio, DT)

    • Herrmann, Gavin (Physics, DT)*

    • Braydn Andres (Physics)

• Team 9 - (Special Schedule)

  • • • * Have to leave early on 12/7 meeting for Band