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???
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.)
Mrs. Steensen's Magical Project Proposal Form
Team 1 - Water Rights, Treatment & Distribution
Cebrian, Marcos (CS, Physics)
Reisel, Maya (Chem)
Thompson, Sydney (Bio)
Andersen, Craig (Physics, DT)*
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)
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