Project Title: Educating Students on Environmental Science and Climate Change to foster STEM and Environmental Career Interests at the Boys and Girls Club of New Rochelle: A Study
BASIS Advisor: Mr. Levitsky
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Week 12: Post-Survey Results and Senior Project Presentation
Jun 22, 2022
Welcome back to my blog! This week I unfortunately was very sick. But, I was able to finish the senior project presentation slides and my final deliverable research paper. However, I was not able to conduct my senior project presentation this Friday due to my health and administration issues. I will be doing the senior […]
Week 11: Wrapping Up On-Site Work and Starting the Senior Project Presentation
Jun 22, 2022
Welcome back to my blog! I did a snow fluff and rubber slime experiment with my students. I worked with around 20-25 elementary and middle school students. They all had lots of fun! The snow fluff experiments involved shaving cream, cornstarch, and food coloring. It was fun to combine the properties of shaving cream and […]
Week 10: Fun Experiments and Starting the Post-Survey
Jun 08, 2022
Welcome back to my blog! This week I did a milk experiment and an oobleck experiment. I worked with around 30 elementary and middle school students. They all had lots of fun! The milk experiment consisted of whole milk, dishwashing liquid, food coloring, and cotton swabs. Students added food coloring to the top of some […]
Week 9: A Little Program Delay
May 31, 2022
Welcome back to my blog! This week I was unfortunately not able to do the program due to an ankle injury. I was bedridden, so I was not able to make it over to New Rochelle. No worries though because I will be back for next week’s program! The senior project is starting to wind […]
Week 8: Bottle Rockets and Lots of Fun
May 31, 2022
Welcome back to my blog! This week I did bottle rockets with my students! I purchased a STEM bottle rocket launcher online and we used it to launch our rockets extremely high in the air. I primarily worked with elementary and middle school students. It was a big crowd! I had around 20 students for […]
Week 7: Fun Discoveries and a Foam Fight
May 17, 2022
Welcome back to my blog! This week I did the elephant toothpaste reaction with my Remington students. It was super fun! Students were very enthralled by the visual reaction. I primarily worked with elementary school students and a few middle schoolers for this session. For the elephant toothpaste reaction, I had students combine hydrogen peroxide […]
Week 6: Fun Experiments
May 12, 2022
Welcome back to my blog! This week I was able to do some really fun experiments during the afterschool program at Remington! Students are becoming more and more interested in STEM and science! Many of my students were telling me how they really enjoyed the program and looked forward to it every week, and were […]
Week 5: Making Progress
Apr 29, 2022
Welcome back to my blog! This week was extremely exciting! I had the weekly program lesson, and I was deployed to a Boys and Girls Club school site as well. I went to a school in Ossining and started a garden project with them. They have some spare dirt space for a garden, so I […]
Week 4: BIG News Segment On My Senior Project And Exciting Experiments
Apr 28, 2022
Welcome back to my blog! This week has been a bit of a hectic week. Some very exciting news to share though! My senior project was featured on Spectrum News NY1, you can check out a link to that here It was super cool that this amazing work was able to be featured! I was […]
Week 3: A little delay
Apr 26, 2022
Welcome back to my blog! My apologies for the delay on this post. Students were on spring break last week, so I did not have an opportunity to conduct my program. However, I have been doing more research and students are back from spring break this week! This Thursday I will be primarily working with […]
Week 2: Beginning the Program
Apr 08, 2022
Welcome back to my blog! This week I started the afterschool program and got to teach my first session! I was initially nervous to start teaching, but building bonds with my students have really helped me integrate into the Boys and Girls Club of New Rochelle. My first lesson, which was yesterday, was an introduction […]
Week 1: Research and Beginning On-Site Work
Apr 01, 2022
Welcome back to my blog! Over spring break and this week, I have had the opportunity to be on-site at the Boys and Girls Club of New Rochelle Remington Clubhouse for a couple of days. I have been meeting with my on-site advisor, Aaron Williams, and developing my environmental curriculum for the afterschool program. Additionally, […]
Week 0: Introduction
Mar 18, 2022
Welcome to my blog! My name is Luc Mazzanobile, and I am a senior at BASIS Independent Brooklyn. I have been at BASIS since 6th grade. I am passionate about climate change and environmental science and will be further pursuing a degree in environmental science at Johns Hopkins University next year. My senior project aims […]