High school is so different since you attended. Technology in the classroom has changed. Even the standard woodshop class has evolved. This talk will be about demonstrating the robot technology of a local high school robotics club and how we start with our woodshop class to build prototypes and end up with a 100 lbs. metal robot that can complete the goals of an international competition. 

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Find out why and how these storms form. See how these cyclones help remove heat from the tropics while cooling the oceans. Find out why they spin in different directions in different hemispheres, and find out why they cause tornadoes -- which are typically weak and short-lived. 

During Sagan's famous 1980 COSMOS television series, he explored the universe using scientific evidence and established theories. Then by 1985, Sagan began introducing speculative theories such as the Runaway Greenhouse effect on Venus. Even though he provided Congressional testimony, the data clearly shows he misled many. 

The Thermohaline Circulation is one of Nature’s most important mechanisms for distributing heat from warm areas to cold ones.  We examine its relationship with the Beaufort Gyre, a region in the Arctic Ocean that traps water, and current projections that it will release that trapped water with disastrous effects on climate. 

This is lightning 101 to help make you an informed consumer living here in the “Lightning Capital of the US”.  It presents information based on research from the University of Florida and over 250 years of science and experience and clarifies many of the myths and misunderstandings about lightning. The knowledge gained in this one-hour presentation will help residents make an informed decision about the lightning risk for their family, pets, home, appliances, and electronics. 

The European Weather Model Reigns Supreme and the Russian Climate Model Reigns Supreme.  Find out why that is and why we are so far behind. 

The origin of petroleum is a truly scientific curiosity.  My presentation will include the necessity of a source rock for petroleum, migration of the oil to a reservoir rock, and how to find it.  The early prospecting for oil including finding surface seeps of oil and subsequent drilling on anticlines where it was much easier to find.  Today, much oil is found undersea where it is  much harder to find.  I will discuss the origin of liquid petroleum from the original Drake well in 1859  to prospecting today. 

Learn about important climate studies that you will not hear about from the major news sources.  These studies are published in scientific journals by both academic and government sources -- and yet the public hardly knows about them.  One very important study is the $9 million NEEM Project from Greenland, which produced amazing climate change information. 

What happens when galaxies collide?  How have collisions affected our own Milky Way in the past and future?