Astronomy Research Projects for High School Students

wProjects: Dynamic Web Development Projects for Female High School Students

We report new developments for wConnect, an action research project aimed at recruiting more women into computer and information science. A key outreach activity for wConnect has been high school workshops, where we deliver hands-on web programming experiences. Over the past three years we have fielded and evaluated 11 workshops; nine used a Bridgetools enduser platform and two used wProjects, ...

Cyber Astronomy: a cyber university course for school students

Teaching university physics through the internet is not new, but a new course providing the same service for secondary school students is the first of its kind in Hong Kong. Taking advantage of the fast and affordable broadband internet in the region, some university courses have been converted to a cyber curriculum suitable for secondary school students. In the spring semester of 2002 an astro...

Creative Research Science Experiences for High School Students

A French research institute raises the bar for public outreach with an educational laboratory that engages 1,000 high school students per year in mini research projects.

Research Opportunities for College Undergraduates and High School Students

Swarm Robotics: Research Experience for High School Students

The paper reports an exploratory project to provide research experiences on swarm robotics to high school students. A group of three simple mobile robots (Lego NXT) was used to study ‘search and rescue’ operation. A bio-inspired global optimization technique called particle swarm optimization (PSO) was used as the main algorithm. Each robot was placed in pre-defined positions with a target posi...