During my experiences working at NC State this summer with the ASSIST team, I discovered many engaging activities and videos that were shared with everyone to help connect students to understanding what nanotechnology is and how much of an impact nano-tech is to their everyday lives. Without this really small scale chips and electronic boards, they would not have a super fast and powerful smart phone.

Also, during this summer experience Dr. Jones and Dr. Jurr invited Carolina Biological out to do a short workshop.  There were two main activities that I  would love to come back and do in my classroom with students. The first being the Write It, Do It challenge. Students build a sculpture and then write detailed directions of how they built the design. After about 20 minutes, everyone was to switch their directions and then try to build the design of someone else based on their directions. This would enable me to stress the importance of being very detailed oriented, in ordered to have a good repeatable experiment. Next, I can tie this into the research scientists I meet at the externship site, and discuss some of the cutting edge research that is happening at NC State.

Also, from this experience I would hope to eventually have my mentors come out and talk to the students about what they do for a living, and how they got to where they are today. I would hope that possibly , this could help encourage some of my students to go into an engineering or STEM career field.