The students, Travis Bailer, Anthony Phillips, Emilio Pagan-Yourno, Will Rudolph, and Stephen Samela – joined teacher Theresa Carr and hundreds of other high school students at the program.
They are in the CISCO program’s CCNA Discovery class in the business department.
Carr said that her students, through the class studies, have become “excited about what nanotechnology is and how they can get involved (career pathways, academics, nanobots, bio-nanobots, etc).”
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NanoDay was an all-day, New
York City-wide program designed to introduce pre-college students to the
new interdisciplinary fields of nanoscience and nanotechnology.
The students heard from several college science professors, who are on
the cutting edge of nanoscience, as well as Bill Nye, known as the Science
Guy.
The event was sponsored by the Columbia University Nanocenter in collaboration
with City College of New York, Columbia University, Barnard College and
Rowan University.
The activities of NanoDay were designed to stimulate student interest
in the pursuit of science or engineering as a major in a college or university
setting, and to increase awareness of the important roles that nanoscience
will assume within our global society.
The program included discussions of nanoscience and nanotechnology by
several highly distinguished scientists. In addition, the students had
the chance to observe a wide variety of exhibits and demonstrations covering
many aspects of nanoscience and nanotechnology and related scientific
fields.