Our senior project is going to be about the practical uses of math and science for pre-college students. The reason why we had decided on this topic is because our majors are math and engineering and we would like to become teachers/professors someday, so we thought teaching kids with simple experiments would be a good start for our future career path. Another reason why we picked this project is because we want to increase the interest of students toward academic subjects like math and science. We want to provide them with interesting background and hands-on experiments before they enter advanced level of math and science classes.
For our contacts, we have Jeff Gottesman, the District Coordinator, and Dr. Joe Ledbetter. They are going to be our advisor, and they will be helping us along the way and evaluating us at the end.
To me (Natalie), the motivation of this project is to expose to kids the beauty of science and math when they are still young. I think that learning strange things and doing hands-on experiments are going to help students with their academic classes and open their minds to an unpredictable world. As for me (Vincent), I'm more realistic. Science will be the major career in the future since a lot of things will become digitalized and high-tech, and the society will need critical thinkers like scientists and mathematicians. So, by preparing kids for math and science, they can achieve higher academic goals, which will ultimately benefit the development of our society and themselves in the future.
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