STEM 1A

In the first STEM semester, I studied the intersection of science and technology. 

Early in the semester, my partners and I studied the effects of sunlight on animal tracks in the woods and the amount of energy generated by the school's solar panels.  Through observations of many animal tracks and the recordings of the energy generated by the panels, we were able to determine that as the amount of sunlight decreased during the fall, the number of animal tracks in our woods and the amount of power produced by the solar cells decreased as well. 
To view the final poster, click here.  

For one of the projects, my partner and I researched the effects of pen clicking on short term memory.  Before beginning the project, we anticipated that pen clicking would negatively affect short term memory since people often find it distracting when trying to focus during class.  However, after performing the experiment on teenage girls, it was found that pen clicking actually had little effect on short term memory. 
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