Nanoscience Honors
What is NANO?
Welcome to the Nanoworld! A community where students think for themselves, ask questions, question answers, and develop an understanding and respect for the world around them.
It is a billionth of a meter where materials exhibit surprising properties that modern scientists and engineers are using to solve problems- new energy sources, flexible phones, cancer cures, you name it!
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Learning Modules
UNIT 1 : Nanoscience- Tools/ Design
UNIT 2 : Size and Scale
UNIT 3 : Forces and Interactions
UNIT 4 : Self Assembly/ Nano-materials
UNIT 5 : Design/Carbon Nano-materials
UNIT 6 : Science Technology Society
Competitions / Presentations 2019-20
These competitions provide unique opportunities for students to apply their imagination, scientific knowledge, communication skills, design thinking, and business principles in a high stakes real world context. Despite distance learning caused by COVID-19 some of this year's Nanoscience students choose to compete in several different competitions to showcase their projects!
Project Invent- 2021
Demo day is Project Invent's annual pitch event where student teams showcase their inventions to top investors and tech executives for a chance at funding. Hundreds of students, teachers, and audience members from around the world gathered on a single Zoom call to hear 9 high school teams pitch their inventions developed over the past year for social good. (see their pitch at hour 1:58 minute)
Three teams were selected as finalists and participated in a kick off event at UCLA to meet their graduate student mentors and get a crash course in Design Thinking. The chance to pitch an idea to a venture capitalist is an opportunity most of us adults never get, which makes it so exciting!
High School Entrepreneurs’ Program that combines business fundamentals and executive coaches to help innovate for our research project, culminating in a competition judged by professionals.
***LUMI WON THIRD PLACE $250**
International competition where students design bio-inspired ideas that can provide solutions to the climate crisis using biomimicry as an engineering design strategy.
2018 -19 Activities
Competitions / Presentations
Nanovation Competition at UCLA
Competition Video (min 30) 5/22/19
In January written submissions were taken from any school in the southern CA area and 10 finalist teams were selected by the panel at UCLA to pitch their idea. The submissions consisted of a 450 word abstract summarizing the need that was being filled, current state of the art for the need, and their new nanotechnology based solution idea. Those selected participated in a kick off event the following month at UCLA to meet their graduate student mentors and get a crash course in Design Thinking.
Two teams were selected as finalists. We Won Second Place- see UCLA website!
This competition provides a unique opportunity for my Nanoscience students to apply their imagination, scientific knowledge, communication skills, and business principles in a high stakes real world context. To prepare we partnered with Mr. Mifflin's entrepreneurship class to get feedback on the business aspects before the final pitch which helped students see the value in cross curricular collaboration. The chance to pitch an idea to a venture capitalist is an opportunity most of us adults never get, which makes it so exciting!
Research Project Poster Presentations
4/26/19
Thank you to our sponsors-
Lockheed Martin,
CNSI UCLA Nanoscience Program
Santa Clarita Environmental Education Consortium (SCEEC)
Nanoscience History / Alumni
Nanovation Competition at UCLA
5/25/18
We Won Third Place!
UCLA California NanoSystems Institute Trip
2017 NanoDays
Field Trips / Lab Activities
UCLA California NanoSystems Institute Field Trip 2016
Dye Sensitized Solar Cell Lab
UCSB Cleanroom
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