Teige Dougherty & Anthony Buchanico's "Electric" Guitar

We chose to use a guitar for many reasons. One reason is that we are both musically inclined and have been for most of our lives. For many musicians music actually lights up when they hear and play it. When we see the guitar and we play it, it is very similar to electricity. We are the power source that lights up the music coming out our own instrument. The light is a metaphor for the feeling we get from interacting with our instruments. It starts to become part of you and you can’t shake it no matter how hard you try. So we decided to turn metaphorical lighting into a literal expression with this guitar! With each fret pressed down with an inlay on it, a light shines to show that metaphorical light that we see as musicians. This Acoustic guitar is now a glimmering "electric" guitar.

Dejah Harley & Tamatha Lancaster "Create" Artist Statement

In physics class, we discussed what a circuit was and the different types of circuits that there were. We learned of the differences between parallel and series circuits, which one is better in certain situations, and the formulas to measure certain things within the circuit. These things are the resistance, current, voltage, voltage drop, and power. These formula was Ohms Law and the Power formula. After learning this, we were asked to make a circuit within a sculpture that represent us. We chosed to make a circuit while sculpting something artistic because it represents our passions. With that in mind, we spelled the word “create” with wire while having lightbulbs in between sticking out of the canvas. These light bulbs light up above the circuit, while the actual circuit lies on the back of the canvas. Our circuit represents the one thing that we both love to do, create.


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Amanda Cartagena- iPad

The reason why I chose this project is because since i'm always on my iPad I decided to make a replica of it made out of cardboard. I wanted the circuit to work when you pressed the button, just like a iPad will turn on when you pressed the home button. My replica was just a bigger model of a iPad, it has one series with three light bulbs running off of a 9voltage battery, and since we needed a on and off switch I chose the home button to be the on and off switch.
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Jordan Hairston and Laura De Jesus Artist Statement

When the circuit benchmark was first presented to us, we had a few ideas of what our main object could be because of what they mean to us. One of our ideas was to make a Nike check light up. The Nike check is the Nike Company's logo. The Nike check was an option because Nike is Laura's favorite sneaker brand. She wanted to run a circuit through a basketball sneaker and have the outlining of it shine. Another idea of Laura's was to run a circuit through the base of an iPhone case and light up the border of the Apple logo.
Even though these were good brainstorming ideas, we both found common ground with a music representation. As music lovers and musicians, our love for music inspired us to create our own eighth music note. The structure of the note could be sculpted out of clay and the way that it is neatly structured and decorated also shows our appreciation overall.We chose to create a eighth note instead of any other music note because it is a common design and representation of music overall. Other than a treble clef, the eighth note is a favorite of ours. The first sketch of our music note would have had original and addition designs to the border of it. We choose to decorate the eighth note in a way in which the note will sparkle and shine even when it is not lit up. From the color schemes of the box, to the amount of glitter sprinkled around the note, our sculpture is the best way to show our appreciation for music.

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"Box Of Dreams" Artist Statement

Artist Statement:

I had my idea really fast, but it's wasn't as easy as others might have thought. I call this my "Box Of Dreams". I had many reason to call it that but the major one is that it represents me a lot. It shows my artistic side, and a few things that I care a lot about in my life. This also has music that goes it. It was very fun to make it. I really liked doing it.

I first started with the idea I want for this project. I had a lot of ideas that came into my head, but I had to make something that would represent me. So I picked the idea of a music box because I love music and I can show my artistic ways better with this idea. So when the idea was set I had to think of a way that I can involve a circuit. We had learn a lot about parallel/series circuit. I was only going to have 4 bulbs in my circuit so a parallel wouldn't work for me. So I made it into a series circuit. I build my circuit and then started constructing it into my music box. I had a switch installed into the circuit.
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Nuri Bracey & De'Vante Taggart's "Magic Box".

 De'Vante and I have something in common, we both love fancy watches! Our watches have been complimented many times, and we enjoy fishing for new pieces to add to the collection.  We chose to have our project's base be a classy Charles Dumont watch box, and were deeply depressed when we had to drill holes in it. We gutted the box so that is completely bare inside, and poked 4 holes above and below the label. The yellowish/gold lights represent the watch colors we love, and the red/green are supposed to hint at the idea of getting watches for Christmas.

Our circuit is powered by one 9 volt battery. Each branch (the row of bulbs) is in a series circuit, and the entire project is in a parallel circuit. We did this so that the brightness would be equal amongst bulbs, and so that we could maximize the battery life, which stands at 30 minutes. A hole in the side (hidden in picture) allows for wires to be placed on the exterior that would press against the battery protruding from the side. As you can tell, the box shines brightly and brilliant, and so do the watches that came out of it.
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Circuits Experiment Artist statement Tyler Creighton

​Almost every year since I was 4 I have been dancing. From jazz, to tapp, to ballet , hip-hop,african,moden, lyrical contemporary, and even gymnastics.It began to become to difficult to fit dance in my agenda now that I I am in high school but some how I have found a way. I learned that not every genre is the same but with the techniques you will be able to master all of them very simply.Incorporating my everyday life into projects has always been fun and enjoyable simply because i am able to express myself through something so little.I chose to use a ballerina as my base(foundation). Ballet has slowly became my favorite genre. It works you the hardest and is the most strict genre out of the many I have done. When I saw my ballerina I knew it was so ! I thought about how when you think about a ballerina you think about her shoes and tutu. So I decided to make those glow. I thought about it as even when its dark a ballerina can still glow. 



I started my process by sketching my circuit diagram on paper and marking the ballerina where I wanted to add my circuits and my bulbs.My circuit diagram ended up being three bulbs in a series. After that I made tiny holes and connected all of my wires with each other. The hardest parts of this whole process were finding the right calculations and finding a switch that worked with my circuit. After building this circuit and a lot of hard work the viewers will be able to just hit the switch and Tadaaa there ya go tinker bell ;)


Here is the link to access my essay . And work.
https://docs.google.com/a/scienceleadership.org/document/d/1SkqyY9CuKN9wZ67Fea86CvUFre6qoufynLY8ampUxQ4/edit
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Childhood Obesity

Children in America are becoming fat. “Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.”  33 percent of children and teens are currently obese.  Obesity is among the easiest medical conditions to recognize but most difficult to treat.  Parents feed their children technically twice a day. They feed them breakfast and dinner, but even though they are not there during the school day, (they can control what their child is eating in between the time.) What they can't control are the snacks they eat while they're not in their parents supervision. Unhealthy weight gain due to poor diet and lack of exercise is responsible for over 300,000 deaths each year.The reason most children in America are becoming obese is either because they are following in their parents footsteps or they have no control of the food they are eating.Excess weight and obesity in childhood and adolescence has become a serious public health concern in the United States.  Most  of a child’s diet is controlled by the parents, parents should be held responsible for childhood obesity.




Obesity is one of the easiest thing to realize but the most difficult thing to change.Obesity is an excess proportion of total body fat. A person is considered obese when his or her weight is 20% or more above normal weight. The most common measure of obesity is the body mass index or BMI.Obesity occurs when a person consumes more calories than he or she burns.Obesity occurs when a person consumes more calories than he or she burns. What doesn’t help it is the inactivity.

As mentioned on OECD the percentage of child obesity has increased 15% over the last 2 years. Two type of diabetes has doubled over the years also. 25% of children ages 8-16 watch four or more hours  of television a day. Having  obese parents substantially raises a child's risk of becoming obese.Implications for the life expectancy of obese youth who are likely to experience higher rates of hypertension, elevated cholesterol, and Type 2 diabetes than their parents. Past studies have shown childhood obesity to be more strongly associated with mother’s weight than father’s weight.To find out the effects of maternal and paternal weight on obesity risk in children researchers reviewed 4,432 UK families and 7,078 children, aged between 2 and 15 years.In America children are allowed to go in fast food places without a parent,compared to the UK  who decided create a law that children are not allowed inside of Mc’Donalds without a parent.Parents are then able to decide what they would like there child to eat and moniter what there child is eating.Other laws were based off of this.For example Mc’Donalds now has to give you apples with every happy meal. This is a good way to help maintain childrens weight and diet because while eating a fatty unhealthy meal they are still receiving some type of nutrition.

Weight loss is not a good approach for most young children, since their bodies are growing and developing. A restrictive diet may not supply the energy and nutrients needed for a normal growth and development. Parents and caregivers can help prevent childhood obesity by providing healthy meals and snacks, daily physical activity, and nutrition education. Increased physical activity reduces health risks and helps weight management.This is an easy way of maintaining your childs diet because between the ages of 6-13 because around those ages whatever your parent does more than likely,your child will also.Parents play a role model in their childs life.By excersising and making it fun, cutting down snacks and junk food this will play a good role and great beginning in there childs life. There is a lack of ready access to healthy foods such as fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and lean protein.  Families in poorer communities often live in “food deserts” where supermarkets and grocery stores are scarce or charge higher prices for healthy foods than processed foods. Families with less income must often rely on convenience stores and small neighborhood stores that offer few, if any, healthy food choices. To make matters worse, many underserved communities, particularly in urban areas, have an overabundance of fast food establishments that are often located near schools and playgrounds.Parents also need to monitor amount of calories their child consumes.By the age of 13 an average child should be consuming 1,600 calories a day, and a more active child should consume about 2,000.  However, children began consuming more calories in 2007-2008, they began consuming 16 to 20% more calories a day. Surprisingly for an average child to become obese they need to consume 64 calories more than a normal child per day. By applying proper nutrition, better eating habits and physical activity, any child can live a healthy life.     


Obesity can be prevented in many ways. By parents making sure their child is receiving physical activity on a daily bases, and a healthy diet, there parental involvement will better their children's growth and maintaining a healthy diet.When thinking of obesity, the thought is scary. This is a very big issue mainly in America  but other places also. It can even be prevented in more simpler ways such as ,Paying more attention to your child, showing them love and affection.Don’t closely monitor the amounts your child eats or nag your child to eat at mealtime.   This can interfere with your child’s response to hunger and feeling full.  These two responses are an important basis for healthy eating behaviors. This is preventing children from living a healthy normal life. It is very dangerous for the young crowd especially. Because it is growing rapidly and can cause a lot of health issues , that has to be surgically fixed or a very slow, long, crucial process to get rid of. Over time America is working to decrease the statistics of childhood obesity and prevent more from happening. All this can not be accomplished without the help of parents. Their support and motivation and control of their children's diet can help change this problem.  



Saber Entertainment: Sean McAnich and Antonio Reveron


Artist Statement

This idea was Sean's. Sean started a business idea primarily about videogames. This company came to be known as Saber Entertainment. I happened to join Saber as my ILP, and it has been great. The business has potential. Now back to the matter at hand. Sean proposed that we would make the Saber Entertainment logo for the project. The Saber Entertainment logo is a shield with SE on the front and two sabers crossed behind it. Sabers are curved, bulky swords, just in case people needed to know what a saber is.

Now, it's time to go into detail of what Sean proposed. We would have three bulbs, two at the ends of each hilt (the end of a sword), and a bulb up top, in the middle. Thus, we made a parallel circuit. We would cut two holes, and have two wires at perfect distance to match up with the 9-volt battery. We would then make a key with a 9-volt battery in it. The key would have SE at the end of it. We put the battery in the key, the key will have wires, and when the wires touch the wires in the shield, they will light up. However, due to time, we had to make just the shield. We scratched the sabers and the SE at the end of the key. So I could say the hardest thing that happened to us was to build the thing before the one week we had to build was up. It still works. Saber!!! (The key was not finished just yet in the picture.)



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The Book - Sarah-Charlotte Brown and Vannary Kom

Artist Statement

We chose to light up a book because Vannary and I both like to read. Reading means a lot to us,  and writing is also very important to me because I want to write novels for a living in the future. We did not want do anything harmful to the book itself, so we decided to create the book out of cardboard and use only the cover. The specific book we used (L.A Candy) did not really have any meaning to us, as it is simply representing any books/novels we read in our lives. Based on the cover design of the book, we decided that we wanted to light up some of the hearts. The white hearts had white lights, and the pink heart had a pink light.

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The Gray House and a Flag Pole! by Aaron VanBuren

The reason why I chose to make The Gray House and a Flag Pole because I wasn't sure what I wanted to do. In class I saw a block of wood and a wooden stick and thought of a flag pole. From there I started to slowly create a flag pole, I collected the light bulbs and need somewhere to put all my components and I found a small box and that became the gray house. In the picture blow, shows the Gray House and the Flag Pole! 
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Victoria Odom - Music Lights Up My World

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For this project we were asked to create a sculptural piece of art that is an electric circuit running off a 9 volt battery. I made a sculpture where music notes light up. I chose to create this because music is major part of my life and has a great impact on who I am as a person today. Music is always there for me when I'm down or even in a great mood. It lights up my world. :)

Bright "S"

I chose to use an “S” shape for my sculpture for a couple of reasons, the first one was it looked kind of cool originally in the simulator that we were using to do tests.  The second reason was because coincidentally it happened to be able to look like the first letter of my name, my name being Sean.  Especially afterward I am glad that I made it like that because it really does, in my opinion, look pretty cool after it was done.

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Twinkle Toes

It was hard to make a physics project that related to me, but I ultimately went with light up shoes. I used to wear the gimmicky blinking shoes you could get at famous footwear, and probably still would if they came is my shoe size. I thought it would be fun to make a pair using circuitry and electrical lights. I am also pace when I need to think so it made sense to put light bulbs on my feet. (like the kind that pop up in cartoons when someone gets an idea.) Ultimately though, I just find the idea of something lighting up when I walk entertaining.
When I designed them, I wanted the toes to be a switch. I didn’t have any particular reason for this I just thought it would be cool. It was the first thing that came to mind when the project was mentioned. It did limit the design of my circuit to a point though, I originally wanted to do parallel circuits, but I had to change it to a series circuit so that it would fit.
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Karly and Rose's Project & Artist's Statement

For our project, Rose and I decided to do a camera. We first had the idea of putting lights inside the hula hoop, but we thought that we be too much and it couldn't be used afterwards. Both of us enjoy photography and Rose just happened to have an old camera in the house that we could take apart. So we figured, let's light up a camera. We had many different ideas of where we wanted everything to light, but we finally came up with an idea. The camera was emptied inside, except for the lens. For the final sculpture, we had a 4 lightbulbs in a series, 2 replacing the flash, and 2 showing in the screen. The switch is the button you press down to take a picture. After all the hard work and planning, we were very happy with the final result.
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Frisbee Artist Statement

Artist Statement:

        Last Spring, I played for my school’s ultimate Frisbee team and that was one of the best team sports I have ever played on. I am not really a big fan of team sports but my school’s Ultimate Frisbee team really changed that perspective. I learned that not all sports are the same. I always like incorporating my life in my projects so for the Physics Circuit Project; I chose to use a Frisbee as my foundation. When incorporating my partner’s interests, we chose use orange tape because my partner’s favorite color is orange. We both really like the sport that we play outside of school and we wanted to show to the viewers that it is important to stay active…whether it is in a school gym or outside of school. I knew that I wanted the rim of the Frisbee to light up so the players could play the Frisbee at night and not have any trouble finding it when it was lit up. The Frisbee would also look really cool in the air at night or in the dark. I also wanted to make the Frisbee as convenient and functional as possible.
        I started my process by drawing out the circuit diagram for the inside of my Frisbee.  In the end, my circuit diagram is in two different sets of series that are parallel to each other. After that, my partner and I drew out the schematics, drilled the holes, and connected the wires to the bulbs and battery. The hardest parts of this whole process were finding the right calculations and finding a switch that worked with our circuit when it was in motion. From this new and improved Frisbee, my partner and I want the viewers and users of the Frisbee to look at the circuit and see the difference in the bulb brightness because of the way they are placed. We also want the viewers and users of the Frisbee to try out our Frisbee and see if it works…but be careful because the bulbs can break!


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Physics Circuit Project by Taylor Veasley Water Stream

Artist Statement  


It was a beautiful day in April at the outdoor flea market outside of the Eastern State Penitentiary when I first saw it. In the 2 years I had been attending this flea market I had never seen anything like it. It was love at first sight, radiant as it sat on the old creaky side table while its owner argued about prices and worth. It had so much history, someone’s “suitcase”, the box that once held their belongings, held in their nervous, excited palms, sweating with anticipation. I love thinking of the stories behind the person that left me with this object; the solid clink of metal as the gold clasps are undone, the smell of adventures, dreams and people forgotten escaping through the cracks. I believe this is much more than just a box, it once carried someone on a journey.  Whether they were just taking a vacation or running from the CIA makes no difference to me. I now carry my life in it, (though I don’t actually carry it around in my room) it holds everything that I cherish in life. I am creating my own history with it.


This box represents me because it has a certain nomadic presence to it, like at any moment you could fill it up with a few things and just go. Thats how I feel I am, like I could pick up my things and go anywhere that the wind would take me. The lights represent my future. When I open the box and the lights come on it makes me think about my life in the future. I think about the places I want to travel to, the experiences I want to have, the job I want to have, and who I want to become. I also like that the lights will illuminate all of the things that I place in that box that I value. The objects have to do with my present and past which will consequently affect my future.


I love the quote by Lana del Rey, “I belonged to no one who belonged to everyone, who had nothing who wanted everything with a fire for every experience and an obsession for freedom that terrified me to the point that I couldn't even talk about and pushed me to a nomadic point of madness that both dazzled and dizzied me.”  I feel like this box represents the freedom to do anything and go anywhere.




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Seamus Kirby and Kristi Bezhani Circuits Project

As we built our model, we notice that art has an enigmatic manner of being incorporated into science. What we thought to be interesting about the art behind this project, is that in a standard piece of art, there are things that cannot be seen, such as possible hidden emotions or the tiniest of details. In science on the other hand, there are also things that cannot be seen, such as electrons, neutrons, protons, etc.. Put the two together and we have many hidden messages that cannot be resolved in the instant. Science, unlike art has theories of the unseeable messages that rationalize what happens in reality based off of logic. But art is much more than a simple theory. With art, there are no accuracies or facts as there are in science, the only thing that matters in art is self and perception. There is never a right or wrong within art, but within science, it is possible for errors to exist. In the scientific world, errors are a negative sign, while in the artistic world, errors are perceived as beautiful of flaw and natural imperfect humanity. We chose to create an earring holder out of forks and spoons, because it combined our interests of food, and jewelry. What makes our earring holder unique is that when the earrings are placed on the holder, all the lights turn on.
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In today's job market, education is what counts. Having a college degree will make or break a resume. As demand for higher education rises, so does the difficulty of getting it, everyday, colleges are flooded with thousands of applications, the majority of which they must sadly decline. The criteria for acceptance has varied over the years, today it is those with the most attractive background who get accepted. While this is very good for encouraging diversity in the classroom, it is actually a discriminatory act. By only accepting a certain number of students from each category, they are denying students from each category the chance at getting in. Colleges should look at the resume of a student before viewing the name or race, so that there is no bias based on the applicants background.

Discrimination has many different forms. It can manifest it as something open like bigotry, or as something subtle, like ignoring a resume based on a name. Names mean more than most would like to think., they are associated with a certain culture, so if whomever is viewing the name is biased towards that culture, than that applicant will have a difficult time getting into that college.“White names got about one callback per 10 resumes; black names got one per 15. Carries and Kristens had call-back rates of more than 13 percent, but Aisha, Keisha and Tamika got 2.2 percent, 3.8 percent and 5.4 percent, respectively. And having a higher quality resume, featuring more skills and experience, made a white-sounding name 30 percent more likely to elicit a callback, but only 9 percent more likely for black-sounding names.”(Pope) While most would not like to admit it, names that seem “normal” appeal more to the people who look over college resumes. It isn’t just those who have unique or culturally distinctive names that suffer though. Many people associate a name with somebody they know’s personality who shares that name. and any feeling towards them might come out in the review.

Accepting or declining students based on background does more to discriminate than it does to level the playing field. It strips individuals of their story, deciding instead to throw everyone in with their own “huddled mass”. It actually creates a tremendous inequality.

“One definition of racism is the idea that "individuals should be treated differently according to their racial designation." Every February, we do exactly that. I'm not saying that we shouldn't honor these individuals, but we should honor the individual, not because of what color he or she happens to have.”

Like Black History Month, intentionally taking from minorities does not put them on a level playing field when it comes to college applications. What it does do is make it easier for people from one minority to get in over people in another. This kind of prejudice is the greatest burden, especially for minorities who hold the “slacker” label. If  an applicant from one of these minorities makes a screw up, they are thrown back to the “masses”. Having the ability to overlook these differences and being able to look at the student purely based on their resume would mean that applicants who worked hard would have a better chance of getting into college, no matter what their background is. One could argue that by not acknowledging their background of the student, you are still discriminating based on who can afford the best education. This is true to a point, but any educational discrimination would still be reflected based on background.

It is important to understand that discrimination is not always bigotry, It comes in many forms. As a society, we can eliminate prejudice by giving everyone the “blank slate”. Being discriminatory is part of human nature, it is how we decide wether or not someone is a threat.


Citations:
Pope, Justin. "'Black' Names A Resume Burden?." ABC news. ABC news. Web. 19 Oct 2012. <http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-201_162-575685.html>.
Camaely, Clint. "Letter: Black history month is racist by definition." Collegiate Times. Collegiate Times. Web. 19 Oct 2012. <http://www.collegiatetimes.com/stories/8589/letter-black-history-month-is-racist-by-definition>.

The mask by micheal hall & joshua melendez

The reason why me and my partner decided to do the mask was because at the time when we got the project, halloween was approaching. We thought it would be hot if we made the mask look creepier and scarier. We choose to use green and white lights because the eyes and mouth were already dark. We also wanted the eyes and mouth to pop out and be like “BAM”!! Also, we thought it would be cool if the battery was portrayed as the candy in the trick or treat basket, and when you take out the candy, the lights connected to the eyes and mouth would shut off. This is why we chose to do the mask.

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Jessica Hinton, Symone Smith, and Imani Johnson 'Change the Game'

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