TMA Students Engaging in #STEM Opportunities!

For the next week, we are sharing examples of TMA students engaging in exciting #STEM opportunities.

Meet TMA’s Green Club, @gangster_gardeners, their Instagram name inspired by Ron Finley’s TED Talk. Led by Sara Carnochan and Karen Lee, the group splits their time between gardening and preparing meals using the food they have grown. For TMA’s STEM Fair, The Green Club will be presenting their latest experiment, “Do plants need natural light?” Ms. Carnochan says, “Students know plants photosynthesize to grow. We thought it would be a great opportunity to test and see if the source needs to be sunlight or can plants grow if they have a different source – in this case Christmas lights.”

Meet Deval, a senior at TMA and 2017 Posse scholar! In the fall, Deval will attend Lafayette College on full scholarship and will study Electrical Computer  Engineering. Deval says, “I’ve always thought of computers as a human brain and want to figure out how to advance what computers can really do.” Deval and his Physics class will be at TMA’s STEM Fair, highlighting one of their first experiments, “The Egg Drop”. An interactive booth for all, The Egg Drop allows TMA students to highlight engineering skills with their models and expand on inventions that exist to keep the egg intact.