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Promoting Healthy Eating–The Great Cannection
By Enrico Shippole, VI Form
Imagine that I’m standing in front of you with a large grocery bag and that I’m going to offer to make you a dessert. From my bag, I would extract sugar, salt, three dyes (red 40, yellow 5, blue 1), and petroleum oil. Yes, petroleum oil is in many of our baked goods. I could keep going but I’ll lose your interest somewhere in the litany of the other 30 additives and preservatives.
I love food; I grew up in an Italian family, where gatherings happened around the kitchen table with real, fresh food. Today, it seems that too many family gatherings happen at a fast food counter. (more…)
Robotics and Collaboration: A Symbiotic Relationship
By Seung Jae (Ryan) Lee, V Form
At our Gray Colloquium Day on March 27th, we were fortunate to have Don Bossi, president of FIRST Robotics, as our morning keynote speaker. FIRST, For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, seeks to inspire young students to take an interest in robotics and encourages collaboration and cooperation. St. Mark’s has developed an intricate and intimate relationship with FIRST over the last four years. Thanks to the generous support from the school, the St. Mark’s Robotics Team with the team name Gone Fishin’ and a team number 3566 has finished its fourth season. Every year, the robotics team competes in the FIRST Robotics Competition (more…)
Presenting and Communicating STEM: St. Markers at Regional Science Fair
Article Organized and Collated by Julie Geng, V Form & STEM Fellowship ’13-’14
On the Friday before spring break, eleven St. Mark’s students in the STEM Research Fellowship class participated in the annual Worcester Regional Science Fair held at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. All eight projects were able to go on to the Massachusetts State Science Fair in May at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (more…)
Living My Life for Myself, Not Grades or My Parents
By Jazzy Randle, V Form
This past semester, I spent my time at the Mountain School in Vershire, Vermont. The Mountain School is a semester school on an organic farm that enrolls forty-five students in the both the fall and spring terms. When they presented at St. Mark’s my freshman year, I knew that this would be a place for me to be challenged and to learn more about myself. The mission statement of the Mountain School is “To cultivate a diverse and interdependent community (more…)
3D Printing at St. Mark’s: The Desktop Factory
By Varun Shankar, VI Form
3D printing—it sounds like something out of a futuristic sci-fi movie, where anyone is able to instantaneously create whatever object he or she desires, but in fact the technology is becoming more accessible today. No, we’re not able to instantly materialize anything we want yet, but 3D printing has grown from an obscure technology confined to expensive labs to a relatively cheap product for the layman. 3D printing starts with a 3D computer model of an object, made with any of the various available Computer Assisted Design (CAD) programs. The CAD file is then sent to the printer, which (more…)
An Extension of the Arithmetic Derivative
By Seung Jae Lee V Form, Alex Padron VI Form, and Luya Wang VI Form
Instructor: Mr. Rick Umiker, Mathematics Faculty
Abstract: In this paper, we examine the product rule and the arithmetic derivative. We first find a closed-form formula for the arithmetic derivative over positive integers. We then extend the argument to negative numbers, rational numbers, power roots, and complex numbers. Throughout our research, we also use Mathematica graphics to help visualize the behavior of the arithmetic derivative over different domains and explore boundary conditions and intermediate lines. Finally, we discuss the continuity of arithmetic derivative and give a continuous form that satisfies the product rule. (more…)
Crystallographic Restriction Theorem and Molecular Symmetry
By Julie Geng, V Form
Author’s Note:
As many of my peers and teachers know, I am a big chemistry “nerd”. While I am engrossed in organic synthesis, I aim to broaden my perspective by making the connections between chemistry and other STEM subjects. Interdisciplinary studies are indispensable nowadays, as many scientific breakthroughs are results of the collective efforts of specialists in various interrelated fields.
Introduction
As exemplified by the copious examples in “Linear Algebra: A Modern Introduction” by David Poole, linear (more…)
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