In article <4hfdku$fio@foglet.rutgers.edu> ed111@ix.netcom.com (Edward M. Reifman ) writes:
>As a member of the Forsight Institute, and the co-author of an
>upcoming book in MNT, I admit to being stumped at an exceedingly
>difficult problem. My 12 year old daughter, Katie, has chosen her 7th
>grade science project to be 'something in Nanotechnology'. Obviously,
>she knows that 'daddy' can help her. The problem: 'A successful
>science project solves a problem through some type of experiment'.
>Now, Katie is creative and bright, but she's not someone who can do
>some molecular modeling on the computer. The project must be simple.
Here's a project possibility: Utilize the members of her class on a task that she starts. i.e. whatever she does, distribute raw materials to each member of the class in the beginning. Then do the first machine(Katie), that then hands off a solution to another member of the class. Then after a minute, they hand to 2, then 4, then to 8 and so on. Then point out how it relates to nanotech.
Andy
-- Andy Pearlman - artwork at http://tsb.weschke.com/iiw/gallery/pearlman_a.html apearlma@panix.com "What tip do you have to leave after staying seven years in a restaurant?"