Outcomes of Student Inquiry and Research
Sample Student Investigations
A collection of past abstracts of Student Inquiry and Research investigations exemplifies a seemingly unlimited range of project possibilities. Descriptions for a sampling of past investigations are included below, with specimens that are readily accessible to all readers, to convey a sense for the diversity of the program.
- Controlled Large-scale Synthesis and Magnetic Properties of Single Crystal Cobalt Nanorods (Engineering/Materials Sciences investigation during the 2004-2005 school year)
- The Coyote Project (History investigation during the 1994-1995 school year)
- Designing an Interactive Math Program Using Macromedia Flash MX (Math/Computer Science investigation during the 2004-2005 school year)
- Dynamics of the Morris Great Blue Heron Rookery (Biology investigations during the 2001-2002, and 2002-2003 school years)
- The Gossman Farm (multiple Biology/History investigations starting in the 1999-2000 school years)
- Music Composition: What goes into the Making of a Song? (Fine Arts investigation during the 2002-2003 school year)
- Scalability of the AMD X86_64 Architecture in a High Performance Clustering Environment using commonly available consumer computer components (Computer Science investigation during the 2004-2005 school year)
- Using Textiles to Date Sites in the Norte Chico, Peru (Earth Sciences investigation during the 2003-2004, and 2004-2005 school years)