STEM Summer Programs for High School Students
STEM is a term that stands for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Here is a list of some of the best STEM summer camps for high school students.
Future Matters Program
It is an 8-week paid summer research experience for high school students. This is a hands-on program for students interested in going after a career in medical research.
Students will attend seminars led by faculty and participate in discussions with peers.
Simons Summer Research It is a seven-week program located at Stony Brook University. Students will have the opportunity to participate in special workshops, tours and events free of charge.
They will conclude the program by producing a written research abstract and research poster.
Research Science Institute
It is the first cost-free summer program of its kind. During this six-week program, students will dive deeper into the world of science and engineering by experiencing the entire research cycle. In this program, students attend classes conducted by famous professors and prepare written and oral presentations to present their research.
Program in Math for Young Scientists
This program is a six-week intensive mathematics program designed for students across the globe. Unlike common programs, it offers a great deal of independence for students to choose their own schedules and decide what they want to study. Besides learning, there is also "mandatory (强制的 ) fun time" built into the weekly schedule so that students are able to have non-math related activities.
Severe plantar fasciitis (足底筋膜炎) meant I'd been a full-time wheelchair user since I was 12. By the time I was 16, I just wanted my leg off. It took six years for the doctors to start the operation as they insisted on waiting until I was older and mentally prepared. I held off until I finished my degree. Afterward, with an artificial leg fitted, the world felt like a different place. I'd not walked in years. Suddenly I was a lot taller and no longer in any pain.
When I was in a wheelchair, I discovered a real love for sports. I started to compete in wheelchair racing, and soon found I was good at discus (铁饼) throwing. I started competing in Tough Mudder (an endurance event series), progressing from walking with crutches to blade (小腿假肢) running. I now compete in sports internationally and have won the silver medal for adaptive judo at the World Judo Games.
At the time of the surgery, I worked as an accountant, but I soon realized I didn't want to be sitting in an office all day as I'd been in a wheelchair for so long. Therefore, as soon as the revision surgery was complete, I handed in my notice.
My career took a different path after I was asked to be a guest presenter for the
Duke of Edinburgh's Awards. Now I speak to schools, colleges and organizations about a wide range of subjects such as disability, discrimination, disability in sport, and perseverance. I share my own personal stories, which was about how I lost my leg, what I learned from it, and how I followed my dream.
Now most of my income comes from working as a motivational speaker, which I've been doing full time for a year. I love what I do, and if I continue to inspire others to do what they want to in life, then I'm happy.
The Blue Planet II's latest episode focuses on how plastic is having a disastrous effect on the ocean and slowly poisoning our sea creatures. Researchers recently also found that sea creatures living in the deepest place on Earth, the Mariana Trench, have plastic in their stomachs. Indeed, the oceans are drowned in plastic.
Though it seems now that the world couldn't possibly function without plastics, consumer plastics are a remarkably recent invention. The first plastic bags were introduced in the 1950s, the same decade when plastic packaging was increasingly welcomed in the United States. This growth has happened so fast that science is still catching up with the change. Plastics pollution research, for instance, is still a very early science.
We put all these plastics into the environment and we still don't really know what the outcomes are going to be. What we do know, though, is disturbing. Ocean plastic is estimated to kill millions of marine animals every year. Nearly 700 species, including endangered ones, are known to have been affected by it. One in three leatherback turtles, which often mistake plastic bags for jellyfish, have been found with plastics in their bellies. Ninety percent of seabirds are now eating plastics on a regular basis. By 2050, that figure is expected to rise to 100 percent.
And it's not just wildlife that is threatened by the plastics in our seas. Humans are consuming plastics through the seafood we eat. I could understand why some people see ocean plastic as a disaster, worth mentioning to the same degree as climate change. But ocean plastic is not as complicated as climate change. There are no ocean trash deniers, at least so far. To do something about it, we don't have to remake our planet energy system.
This is not a problem where we don't know what the solution is. We know how to pick up garbage. Anyone can do it. We know how to dispose of it. We know how to recycle. We can all start by thinking twice before we use single-use plastic products.
Things may seem ordinary, like using a reusable bottle or a reusable bag, but when taken collectively, these choices really do make a difference.
Pupils (瞳孔) respond to more than just light. They can indicate one's interest or mental exhaustion. Pupil dilation (扩大) is even used by the police to detect lies. Now work conducted in our laboratory suggests that the pupil size is closely related to individual differences in intelligence. The larger the pupils are, the higher the intelligence is, as measured by the tests of reasoning, attention and memory.
We first uncovered this surprising relationship while studying differences in the amount of mental effort people used to complete memory tasks. We used pupil dilation as an indicator of effort, a technique psychologist Dani Kahneman popularized in the 1960s and 1970s. When we discovered a relationship between the pupil size and intelligence, we weren't sure if it was real or what it meant.
Curiously, we conducted several large-scale studies in which we recruited more than 500 people aged 18 to 55 from the Atlanta community. We measured the participants' pupils at rest while they stared at a blank computer screen for up to four minutes with an eye tracker. All the while, the eye tracker was recording. Using the tracker, we then calculated each participant's pupil size.
To be clear, the pupil size refers to the diameter (直径) of the black circular aperture in the center of the eye. The pupil is surrounded by the colorful area known as the iris (虹膜), which is responsible for controlling the size of the pupil. Pupils become tighter and smaller in response to bright light, so we kept the laboratory dim (昏暗的) for all participants. In the next part of the experiment, the participants completed a series of tests designed to measure "fluid intelligence", the capacity to reason through new problems, "working memory capacity", the ability to remember information over a period of time, and "attention control", the ability to focus attention amid distractions and interference.
We found that a larger pupil size was correlated with greater fluid intelligence, attention control and, to a lesser degree, working memory capacity— indicating a fascinating relationship between the brain and the eyes. Interestingly, the pupil size was negatively correlated with age: older participants tended to have smaller pupils.
Once standardized for age, however, the relationship between the pupil size and intelligence remained.
Have you ever popped the small air-filled bubbles that make up a sheet of bubble wrap (气泡膜包装) ? Then, have you ever wondered why popping them is so satisfying? It turns out that there is some science behind the human connection to bubble wrap. Some experts believe it's similar to the need to fidget (动来动去).
These small actions are all types of fidgeting.
While some people think fidgeting is distracting, it's actually been shown to increase attention span. Similarly, a study revealed that people report feeling more alert after popping bubble wrap. The results also showed that people who popped bubble wrap were calmer afterward than those who did not. So, popping bubble wrap may increase people's ability to pay attention and remember what they learn.
In other words, your brain is wired to enjoy it! Early humans had to be on their toes all the time. They needed to be ready to run from wild animals at a moment's notice. Today, people spend a lot of time sitting, especially at school and at work. As a result, the body may build a lot of muscle tension from lack of movement.
Popping bubble wrap helps relax that muscle tension. It reduces stress and anxiety.
In fact, studies have shown that, sometimes, the human brain receives feel-good chemicals like dopamine(多巴胺) after popping bubble wrap.
A. So that may be why it feels so satisfying!
B. It also helps with the memory of information.
C. You will benefit a lot from the air-filled bubbles.
D. If so, you know there's something highly satisfying about it.
E. Have you ever seen someone else blowing the small bubbles?
F. Do you click a pen or bounce your leg while you're listening?
G. Experts also say the enjoyment may be tied to human evolution.
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In our living room, we have a bookshelf. We call it the "1treasury" because any of our guests can take any book from it and 2 any book to it. Our home often hosts events with hundreds of different people passing through it. But no one 3 where the books come or go; it's all based on trust.
These books are typically of the 4 types--from Jack Canfield's Chicken Soup For the Soul, self-help books like Power of Now, to Romain Rolland's The Biography of Celebrity. You can' really be 5 what you'll find on a particular day.
The other day, I 6 a red book. It stood out because it had special little white hearts on it and no title. I checked out Page one. It 7 a hand-written inscription (题词) in black ink:
To: DJ Burrowes
From: Grandma and Grandpa Burrowes I quickly opened up a 8 page in the book. I spotted a quote, with a crossed out word written in the seemingly 9 handwriting of elderly Grandma or Grandpa Burrowes. Then I couldn't wait to explore the inside. 10, every page had a hand-written quote by DJ's grandparents. It was a(n) 11 of Grandparents' quotes going back over many years! They had given it to their grandson and now, DJ had given it to us. It was this gift that 12all of us!
A couple of weeks back, DJ decided to leave America to go on an open-ended trip to China. Before leaving, he came for an13 at our place, putting this book on the shelf without letting us know. He offered his silent14 in this way for what he benefited from our sharing. We stood in 15 of the Burrowes for what they left us.
Qixi, (fall) on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, is widely regarded as China's Valentine's Day. But do you know the origin of the festival?
Legend has it the Weaver Girl met and fell in love with a cowherd. The Jade Emperor strongly objected the couple's union and forcibly separated them by the Milky Way, leaving them (tear) apart by the galaxy and only allowing them to meet once a year. the distance could not stop their love for one another and they looked forward to meeting once a year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month.
However, with the development of high speed railways, the tragedy of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl could not happen in modern China. A ride between Beijing and Shanghai on the high-speed rail only (take) four hours. The convenience and (efficient) of modern travel have shortened the "galactic distance" between couples.
On Qixi, more and more young people are going on dates and exchanging gifts to express their affection. Long queues are also often formed at the gate of the Civil Affairs Bureau (局，科) couples rush to register for marriage when love is in the air. This is because Qixi carries (it) a symbolic meaning: choose your own love and remain (faith) to life.
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One of the first places Julia always ran to when they arrived at their vacation house in Galway was the tunnel. It was a dark, moist tunnel made of smooth branches.
She always enjoyed running through the darkness of the tunnel towards the light at the end of it. This year she had the extra joy of showing it to her small brother, Stephen, and of terrifying him as well as herself.
One day they found a hole on one side of the tunnel. Inside there was water, in which they perceived a panting trout (喘息的鳟鱼 ). They were both so excited that they were no longer afraid of the darkness as they hunched down and peered at the fish panting in his tiny prison, his silver stomach going up and down like an engine; otherwise he was motionless. Julia wondered what he ate and thought of his hunger. She found him a worm. He ignored the food, and just went on panting. Bending over him, she thought how he had been in there. All the winter, in the dark tunnel, all day, all night floating around alone.
Nobody know how the fish got there. Her mother suggested that a bird had carried the egg. Her father thought that in the winter a small stream might have carried it down there as a baby, and it had been safe until summer came and the water began to dry up.
Before they went to bed, Stephen asked his mummy the whole story of the trout, not really interested in the actual trout, but in the story which his mum began to make up for him, and Julia in her bed, presented her back to them and read her book. But she kept one ear cocked. "And so, in the end, the naughty fish got bigger and bigger, and the water got smaller and smaller." Passionately, she turned around and cried, "Mummy, don't make it a horrible old moral story". Her mom even brought in a fairy (仙子 ), who had made it rain and filled the hole, so that the trout could float away down the river below. Staring at the moon Julia knew there was no such thing as a fairy and that the trout, down in the tunnel, was panting for his life.
注意：
1.续写词数应为150左右；
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
Para 1: She sat up in the silent night and Stephen was sound asleep.
Para 2: Julia poured the trout out of the pot into the river
