Electra loves to read. Just give her the facts!
Windy enjoys finding patterns related to energy.
Hi, I'm Geo. I like working on all kinds of projects. When I start earning my own wages, I want to make a pile of money as an earth scientist - or maybe by inventing energy-efficient machines that let us use our natural resources wisely. I want to work with people so they stay warm and have energy to cook with, too.
Let me teach you the fun way my buddies and I do projects. We call it "hands on learning". Each project has steps and sub-steps and we can break anything down. Everything we do can be broken down into separate pieces. Having the right tool for each step makes each project go more smoothly - especially when it comes to putting things back together again. We don't lose sleep over it and often skip parts of this step, but it really helps to have a plan - and follow it. The bigger the project, the bigger the plan.
OK, now let's give it a quick whirl in a virtual laboratory and build a virtual robot - or even a real robot together. And tough but skateboarder-style-friendly robotics Competition Championship, too. I get obsessed playing challenging games, too - like the one where I have to do it quickly because the fate of the universe depends on my success on the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Adventure.
Geo's Recommended Hand-On Projects
Build Your Own Solar Car! Build your own Robot (from a kit)
DOE Laboratories, Educational Programs: Minority Outreach Initiatives for Geo
Manos Hands-on Science and Engineering Program
Hispanic middle school students
Sandia National Laboratories -- NM
Geographic Limits: Albuquerque, New MexicoHands-On Minds-On Technologies
(HmTech Science Program)
African American Students - 6th through 12th grades.
Sandia National Laboratory
Geographic Limits: Near Sandia National Laboratory
Minority High School Apprenticeship Program (MHSAP)
Research Apprenticeships to 9th/10th grade students: African Ancestored, Hispanic/Latino, Native American and Pacific Islander
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Geographic Limits: Suffolk County and Inner City Outreach Schools, NYAffirmative Action & Diversity Program
Coordination with Professional organizations
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Geographic Limits: San Francisco Bay AreaDOE Renewable Energy and Environmental Protection (REEP) Summer Academy
Minority and inner city youth
Geographic Limits: Texas, Louisiana, and ColoradoColorado Mathematics, Engineering and Scientific Achievement (MESA)
Economically disadvantaged ethnic minority and women
Geographic Limits: ColoradoStudent Research Apprenticeship Program (SRAP)
Ethnic groups under-represented in science and engineering (Hispanic, African American and Native American)
Pacific Northwest Laboratories
Geographic Limits: Richland, WashingtonHands-On Minds-On Technologies
(HmTech Science Program)
African American Students - 6th through 12th grades.
Sandia National Laboratory
Geographic Limits: Near Sandia National Laboratory
Date last updated: Jan. 2, 2005