Kennedy Manley's Stem Portfolio
My name is Kennedy Manley and I am a student at Roland Park Country School (RPCS). I have been apart of the STEM Institute at RPCS since ninth grade. At school, I completed the STEM 1A and 1B classes in ninth grade and the STEM 2A and 2B classes in tenth grade. Between my ninth and tenth grade school years, I completed an internship at Johns Hopkins Hospital where I was able to research cancer cells at the Tran Lab. Between my tenth and eleventh grade school years, I researched the correlation between temperature and water quality in Baltimore City. During my eleventh grade school year, I am completing an ongoing research project on the effect of scent and memory retention. Between my eleventh and twelfth grade school years, I will be completing an internship at the University of Maryland College Park where I will study and observe the many different fields within computer science.
STEM 1A:
Within this Short Tem Memory paper, I conducted research on the effect of a distraction and a students recollection of words. I used the program Scratch to develop a system that displayed words for the test subject as well as a bouncing ball across the screen to serve as a distractor.
For this project, my group and I went outside RPCS to examine how ablative cover, temperature, and pH affect dissolved oxygen amounts in the Stony Run Stream as the season changed.
STEM 1B:
The Mars Rover was a Lego Mindstorm Robot programmed to complete a series of complex tasks. I programmed the robot to be able to make left and right turns, go forward, traverse rough terrains, and go up and down steep inclines.
This paper was written to describe the similarities and differences of spherical, hyperbolic, and Euclidean. These are three different types of complex geometries.
This presentation was developed to show the uses of mobius strips in everyday life. This presentation describes how mobius strips are created and also gives background information on how German mathematicians, August Ferdinand Mobius and Johann Benedict Listing created the mobius strip.
This is a 2D representation of the crab that I printed from a 3D printer.
STEM 2B:
This was the final stage gate presentation of a project I completed to help the dead zones within the Chesapeake Bay. The dead zones have a lack of oxygen so the oyster residing there have a challenging time surviving. Thus, I decided to design a biodegradable plastic tube convered in wax paper with the goal to release oxygen.
Sunscreen Product and Packaging
Throughout this project, I was tasked with designing a safe sunscreen product and an efficient packaging for the sunscreen. I had many product constraints to consider such as MSDS safety standards, cost, and effectivity.
11th Grade Internship Proposal
During my 11th grade school year, I proposed to complete an internship where I studied the effect of lemon scent on short term memory. The proposal states my project's supervisor, rationale, description, and timeline.
Biology and Physics:
Protozoa and Beverages Soil Ecology
This paper was written for biology in ninth grade. The paper demonstrates the effect of sugary bevarages (Pepsi and Gatorade) on the number of Protozoa in the soil.
This paper was written for physics in tenth grade. During this project, my partner and I accomplished the task of designing a rocket from scratch that would fly the maximum distance in the air.
