How about we start talking about the more interesting things in this article. Last month Nasa and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) landed the heaviest, but most intelligent and technologically developed payload, ever to touch the Martian surface. I am of course referring to the 2020 Perseverance rover. It carries seven primary payload instruments, 19 cameras, and two microphones. The rover is also carrying the mini-helicopter Ingenuity, an experimental aircraft that will attempt the first ever powered flight on another planet.
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SpaceX did it again: SpaceX's latest Starship prototype went out in a blaze of glory.
The Starship SN10 spacecraft touched down successfully after a high-altitude test flight in March 3, a major milestone for the company and its crewed Mars ambitions. But the vehicle didn't manage to hold itself together, exploding about eight minutes after landing.
The big stainless-steel SN10 launched from SpaceX's South Texas site, rose 10 kilometers into the sky and came back safely to Earth for a smooth touchdown after 6 minutes and 20 seconds from liftoff.
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Space (What is space according to many scientific sources: Space is the boundless three-dimensional extent in which objects and events have relative position and direction.) facts that probably you didn’t know:
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Space is completely silent (due to the vacuum-no air).
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99% of our solar system's mass is the sun.
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More energy from the sun hits Earth every hour than the planet uses in a year.
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One day on Venus is longer than one year on Earth and 10 days longer than 1 year on Venus.
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The universe is constantly expanding.
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A competed NASA space suit costs $12,000,000.
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There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on earth.
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Thank you for reading this article. It means a lot for us. Comment down below your thoughts and ideas and tell me your favorite STEM activities that we can discuss in later articles.
Geitonas student newsletter
Welcome to the first STEM article, called space and beyond.
I am John, and I am an IB1 student here in Geitonas School. If you are reading this then I am sure you either love STEM or you just don’t know anything about it and you want to get informed. Here in STEM article, we will dive deep into the world of technology and engineering, while referring to interesting Math problems, that have concerned thousands of people, and many science-based activities.
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Before we start, our first priority is to understand the term STEM. WHAT IS STEM AND WHY DO WE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT IT ? STEM is an acronym from the words Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. It combines all these four major academic disciplines. Although, this term was adopted by Rita Colwell and other science administrators in the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2001, it was first brought up in the early 1990’s.
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STEM is a curriculum based on the idea of educating students in this four specific disciplines in an interdisciplinary and applied approach. Rather than teach the four disciplines as separate and discrete subjects, STEM integrates them into a cohesive learning paradigm based on real-world applications.
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The global economy is changing. Current jobs are disappearing due to automation and new jobs are emerging every day as a result of technological advances.
The continual advances in technology are changing the way students learn, connect and interact every day. Skills developed by students through STEM provide them with the foundation to succeed at school and beyond.
Science and math are particularly important in STEM because technology and engineering are dependant on them.
However, this doesn’t mean that STEM is beyond reach if you’ve struggled with these subjects in the past. It just means that STEM will likely be more difficult for you than others. Alternatively, you might find that understanding these two subjects is actually easier for you than it has been in the past, given the practical way these subjects are taught in a STEM program.
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Through STEM, students develop key skills including:
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problem solving
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creativity
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critical analysis
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teamwork
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independent thinking
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initiative
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communication
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digital literacy.
You’ll rarely be given the explicit solution to a problem. Instead, you’ll often be required to use what you already know to figure out the right answer for yourself. This requires a significant amount of creativity and flexible thinking, as well as technical knowledge and mastery of each individual discipline, values I strongly hope that by the end of each article you will have gained.
