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It’s Time to Register For:. Thayer Model Engineering!. What Thayer is :. DartmouthThayer Design Model Explore Cool Technologies Work on Teams CREATE Cool Inventions Solve Complex Problems to Improve the World. Work. On Things YOU are Interested in Doing

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  1. It’s Time to Register For: Thayer Model Engineering!

  2. What Thayer is: • DartmouthThayer Design Model • Explore Cool Technologies • Work on Teams • CREATE Cool Inventions • Solve Complex Problems to Improve the World

  3. Work • On Things YOU are Interested in Doing • Not On What a teacher is interested in Doing

  4. Learn • About What You NEED To In Order To Do Your Project. • Not About What a Teacher Says You Need to Learn.

  5. This Class is About Doing Not Sitting. • You have choices in what you do and who you work with. • No Tests or Quizzes! • Projects Give You Something You Can Talk About!

  6. Support your team. • No matter who they are! Work together!

  7. CREATING IS FUN! Examples:

  8. Thayer Model5 Steps:

  9. Thayer is • Fall Semester Only • ½ Science Credit • NCAA Clearinghouse College-level Course- Same as AP Bio or AP Chem

  10. Former Outstanding CVU Student Projects:

  11. The Waterproof Towel

  12. A Submarine Screen Door

  13. A Book on How to Read

  14. The Inflatable Dart Board

  15. An Ejector Seat for a Helicopter!

  16. Powdered Water

  17. The Water-Proof Tea Bag

  18. The Solar-Powered Flashlight

  19. Real Examples of CVU Awards:  Connect Gene Therapy- Second Place Toshiba - $5,000/each (2007) Spinal Chip Connector- Second Place Toshiba - $5,000/each (1999) Jupiter Moon Radio Reveiver- Siemens Westinghouse Honorable Mention- $1,000: Gold Medal VT Science Fair ($100) Tire Burning Smokestack Cleaner – Gold Medal VT Science Fair ($100)

  20. CVU Awards, Continued Toshiba Honorable Mention Prizes Gastro-Intestinal Diagnostic Capsule Hydrogen Car Bionic Hearing for The Deaf Photosynthetic Hydrogen Generator Virtual Real-Time Communication Nanobot Cures for Diseases And Dozens of Others. . .

  21. Thayer Model Engineering • Gives You Something to Be An Expert About • Gives You something to Talk About (college essays, interviews) • Gives Teachers Something to Talk About (letters, comments) • Gives You Skills in Doing Un-Boring Real-Life Stuff. Without Adding a Heavy Class on Your Schedule Register for Thayer Today

  22. Web Links: http://thayer.dartmouth.edu/thayer/  Thayer projects: http://engineering.dartmouth.edu/~teps/default_materials.html  Eng 21 http://www.dartmouth.edu/~engs21/ Google it Baby!

  23. Go For IT!Sign Up on Your Yellow Sheetand Registration Next Week!!

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