DRIPBL (STEAM with a Purpose)

We at Hewitt Research Foundation are thrilled to announce the launch of the Future Scholars Journal! It is a pioneering platform dedicated to nurturing and showcasing the academic and creative talents of young scholars across various disciplines. This journal aims to provide students with a unique opportunity to publish their research, essays, and creative works, fostering a community of aspiring intellectuals and innovators. We are proud to partner with Rachna Nath from DRIPBL (STEAM with a Purpose) and Juli Shively from Innovation World and the Global Innovation Field Trip for this initiative. Their expertise and dedication to educational excellence and innovation have been instrumental in bringing this project to life. The Future Scholars Journal stands as a testament to our commitment to educational excellence and accessibility. Inspired by the work of previous students, our journal seeks to empower young minds by giving them a voice in the academic world. The peer reviewed journal will feature contributions from high school students, covering a wide array of topics from STEM to the humanities. Key features of the Future Scholars Journal include: ~ Peer-Reviewed Articles: Ensuring high standards and academic integrity. ~ Diverse Topics: Encouraging submissions in various fields to promote interdisciplinary learning. ~ Mentorship Opportunities: Connecting young authors with experienced researchers and educators. ~ Accessible Online Platform: Making the journal available to a global audience. We believe that early exposure to scholarly publishing can be a transformative experience for students, helping them to develop critical thinking and communication skills, gain confidence in their abilities, and prepare for future academic endeavors. High school programs like those run by Rachna and programs like those put on by Purdue University have shown that such initiatives can significantly enhance students' preparedness for college and their future careers. We invite students, educators, and researchers to support this initiative by contributing articles, offering mentorship, signing up to review, or simply spreading the word. The first edition of the Future Scholars Journal is now available on our website (see link in comment). Together, we can create a nurturing environment where future scholars can thrive and excel. Question for Our Community: What topics or areas of research would you like to see featured in future editions of the Future Scholars Journal? Your suggestions and feedback are invaluable as we continue to develop this platform. Let's embark on this exciting journey to inspire and elevate the next generation of scholars. #FutureScholarsJournal #EducationalExcellence #StudentEmpowerment #AcademicPublishing #HewittLearning

We at Hewitt Research Foundation are thrilled to announce the launch of the Future Scholars Journal! It is a pioneering platform dedicated to nurturing and showcasing the academic and creative talents of young scholars across various disciplines. This journal aims to provide students with a unique opportunity to publish their research, essays, and creative works, fostering a community of aspiring intellectuals and innovators. We are proud to partner with Rachna Nath from DRIPBL (STEAM with a Purpose) and Juli Shively from Innovation World and the Global Innovation Field Trip for this initiative. Their expertise and dedication to educational excellence and innovation have been instrumental in bringing this project to life. The Future Scholars Journal stands as a testament to our commitment to educational excellence and accessibility. Inspired by the work of previous students, our journal seeks to empower young minds by giving them a voice in the academic world. The peer reviewed journal will feature contributions from high school students, covering a wide array of topics from STEM to the humanities. Key features of the Future Scholars Journal include: ~ Peer-Reviewed Articles: Ensuring high standards and academic integrity. ~ Diverse Topics: Encouraging submissions in various fields to promote interdisciplinary learning. ~ Mentorship Opportunities: Connecting young authors with experienced researchers and educators. ~ Accessible Online Platform: Making the journal available to a global audience. We believe that early exposure to scholarly publishing can be a transformative experience for students, helping them to develop critical thinking and communication skills, gain confidence in their abilities, and prepare for future academic endeavors. High school programs like those run by Rachna and programs like those put on by Purdue University have shown that such initiatives can significantly enhance students' preparedness for college and their future careers. We invite students, educators, and researchers to support this initiative by contributing articles, offering mentorship, signing up to review, or simply spreading the word. The first edition of the Future Scholars Journal is now available on our website (see link in comment). Together, we can create a nurturing environment where future scholars can thrive and excel. Question for Our Community: What topics or areas of research would you like to see featured in future editions of the Future Scholars Journal? Your suggestions and feedback are invaluable as we continue to develop this platform. Let's embark on this exciting journey to inspire and elevate the next generation of scholars. #FutureScholarsJournal #EducationalExcellence #StudentEmpowerment #AcademicPublishing #HewittLearning

Join us on 02/13 at 4pm ET for our upcoming CTE panel discussion! The conversation will delve into the future of CTE and offer a fresh perspective from our expert panel on how we can equip our students for success in an ever-changing world. https://bit.ly/3SMIhxw #CTEMonth #webinar

Article on Radio Signal From 8 Billion Years Away by Hruthika Vemula a STEAM National Honors Society Founding Member!!! How long is 8 billion years exactly? Just a little less than twice the Earth’s age.? An FRB, a fast radio burst, that was picked up by a radio telescope in Australia initially baffled scientists when they found it was sent by something that happened in a distant galaxy almost 8 billion years ago. This FRB was picked up on June 10, 2022, and was recently revealed, almost a year later, that this particular FRB was more powerful and came from much further away than ever before recorded.? An FRB is a little-understood phenomenon initially discovered in 2007 and is one of astronomy’s greatest mysteries. While some theories have been thrown out about FRBs, such as them being signs of alien life, many scientists believe the main cause to be distant dead stars known as magnetars. This particular FRB is claimed to have been a miracle to catch as it happened for about one millisecond and many astrophysicists claim they are lucky to have caught such a unique FRB. It easily beat the previous record holder, which was about 5 billion years, and took its place as the furthest light years away. The pulse of it was so powerful that it mimicked as much energy the sun releases in 30 years in just one millisecond. To find the location of the radio burst, researchers turned to a telescope in Chile. The Very Large Telescope in Chile would help the researcher pinpoint the location of the radio burst to a particular clumpy galaxy that may have been merging with other galaxies creating a magnetar as the source. In conclusion, scientists deemed that their best hunch was that the radio signal originated from a merging of multiple galaxies sending an FRB reaching about 8 billion years.?? Although scientists aim to understand FRB’s such as this one better, they also hope that a better understanding would help shed light on some more of the galaxy’s mysteries. #proudmoment DRIPBL (STEAM with a Purpose) #convergence #transdiscliplinary #curiosity

How did my 2024 start? I get to teach DRIPBL (STEAM with a Purpose) to students at a Phoenix High School. Thank you #CEI (Center for Entrepreneurial Innovation) and #MCC (Maricopa Community College) for the opportunity!! Thank you to everyone for the support and trust and being a #changemaker Learn more about DRIPBL (STEAM with a Purpose) at https://www.dripbl.com Thanks to the advisors Raghu Santanam Siddhartha (Sid) Chowdhary Sameer Jain Michael Vezzosi, Ph.D. Cristi Sims Amit Jain Raj Rajagopalan David Coronado Juliet Gomez # I'm excited to start my new commitment! #newjob #Innovation #entrepreneurship #purposedrivenleadership #UNSDG4 #equityineducation #transdisciplinary concepts in high school #convergence #education #changetheworld #newheights

Interdisciplinary Nature of STEAM: Authored by my student Anshika Kedia STEAM encompasses the diverse fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics. These categories work together with interdisciplinary relationships in order to create the world around us, as every project we put in place merges principles of multiple sectors. The integration of each of these topics into real applications outside of the classroom in research and projects encourages innovation, creativity, and critical thinking in students, especially with the recent recognition to incorporate artistic elements into these logical fields. The commonly used acronym, STEM, includes the technical fields dominated by logical and objective thinking, but often lacks the abstract thinking found in the arts. Incorporating the arts along with the more logical elements in other categories allows for more creative thinking and humanistic ideas which can create a broader project or convey information in a more effective way. Colleges and universities, even ones focusing on STEM orientations, are starting to further encourage the studies of liberal arts for STEM majors in order to make more well rounded scientists and engineers. These tactics can be harnessed in the real world and workforce in order to create effective solutions to today’s problems. When people think of STEAM, they often think about the common fields of physics, robotics, or biology, but it actually extends into many other careers in which the combination of these aspects works to solve specific problems in specific ways. For example, consider the field of medical illustration. This field uses one’s knowledge of both science and the visual arts in order to record and disseminate information within the medical field, often used to teach this information in an easily understandable format for students in medical and healthcare fields. Engineers constantly use mathematics in their lines of work in order to carry out their goals of creating new products and programs with accurate calculations and statistics. Architects use engineering principles to effectively design their works and artistic principles to properly communicate their ideas in sketched format. Artists constantly use science in their processes to better understand their materials in a way that can help them predict how their media will behave under specific conditions. In this way, every element of the STEAM fields has a built-in web of interconnectedness to the other elements. By teaching students to incorporate these ideas and principles into their mindsets starting early in their careers, we can create a generation of blooming scientists, mathematicians, and artists who can broaden their initiatives into newer contexts and applications.

Today was a special day as I met my students now pursuing their undergrad at #riceuniversity #UniveristyofArizona #georgiatech #johnshopkinsuniversity #ASU What makes it more special is that each of them also hold their own #patent and their own #LLC LOVE YOU GUYS!! Alex Kroumov Sohani Sandhu Abraham Troop Kaitlyn L. Diya Nath Nealin Banerjee Jacob Kaufman-Warner Xieshi Zhang missed Omina Nematova and @Daneil wu DRIPBL (STEAM with a Purpose) #Innovation #highschoolinnovation #makeithappen. #changemakers #proudteacher #targettedmentoring #Convergencelearning

How Important is an #environment and the #classroomsetting for boosting #learning #collaboration #love #progress #freedomofexpression and #holidayspirit in #studentprogress and #studentsuccess? Love what I do!!! Let's bring people of every walk of life together irrespective of their differences. I believe in #multiculture environments where everyone gets to witness everyone else's beliefs and traditions to increase #tolerance and look through someone else's #lenses Would love your input on this and what are the ways we can improve???

What am I doing in my classroom today?? Working on creating a mindset of #Curiosity and #teambuilding with students as they brainstormed ways to #collaboratively assemble a puzzle. Promoting: -different strategies among various groups, -freedom to make mistakes, -working together to come up with strategies to accomplish a goal -learning each others #strengths and #weaknesses #innovating #problemsolving #STEAMwithapurpose #realworld application of skills #sustainableeducation -Developing #softskills -#Steam Austin Lund Isaac Mottern Arnav Singh Gauri Murkoth Aarna Patel Hruthika Vemula Cyrus Faisal Aayush Rastogi Garv Sharma Shaela Rothwell Alena Appiah Anshika Kedia