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Hi my name is Amber Bustard and I am a student at Roland Park Country School! I started to participate in the STEM institute when I first came to Roland Park imy freshman year. I always had a passion for STEM, starting in fourth grade when I won my school’s science fair two years in a row where I further competed in the Baltimore County science fair. When I shadowed at Roland Park I instantly fell in love with the STEM institute. Starting in ninth grade, I conducted the seasonal change experiment where I tested amount of animal tracks in various weather of the RPCS backwoods. Next I conducted a memory experiment on the effect of the change in volume of white noise on one’s memory. I continued to learn about programming robots, hyperbolic and non Euclidean geometry and other engaging yet thoughtful concepts of STEM. I doubled in sciences sophomore year, taking chemistry and physics. I will continue my love for sciences by taking AP Chemistry my junior year, and then completing the AP Biology and AP computer science courses my senior year.

Below are links connecting to past works I have completed in my STEM and other science courses.

STEM 1A: The first class of the STEM institute at Roland Park. In this course we explored the process of scientific investigation. We used programming to display the data as we collected during our seasonal change investigation and the study on short-term memory.

STEM 1B: The second course of the STEM institute at Roland Park where we learned basic elements and demands of engineering and applied mathematics. We used a program called Scratch which assisted us to program a robot that would rover around Mars”. On “Mars” we used programs to operate the sensor-rich robots to rover around obstacles.

STEM 2A: In this course we explored non-traditional geometries and topological topics such as hyperbolic, spherical or non-Euclidean geometry. Other things we studied Mobius Strips and Klein Bottles as well as 3-Dimensional Projective Geometries. To demonstrate our knowledge we wrote a paper, designed programs using scratch, and created a 3-D objects with the 3-D printer found at school.

STEM 2B: In this course we worked on a sustainable design project through the exploration of materials science and environmental impact to develop a novel sunscreen formula and the package to contain it for retail purposes.

11th Grade Independent Study: During this study we researched ways water was wasted, for my group we designed piping within a toilet that would help sustain the amount of water wasted in the household. One of the major causes of household water waste is from the flushing of a toilet.