Forster will share his experience traveling the world in search of incredible feats of architecture and engineering and his work on Discovery Channel’s documentary, Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero. He also will discuss what inspired him to pursue a career in science.
The 2012 Palm Beach County Science Symposium, which will be held at Park Vista High School, will feature close to 100 interactive workshops designed to:
Seminole SECME coach Erich Landstrom is scheduled to present three sessions at the times listed below: Session 2: 9:45-10:35 Brain Breaks and New Horizons Research has consistently demonstrated that multiple short sessions, distributed over time, lead to better long-term memory than a single massed study period. A best practice to ensure student engagement and retention is to periodically take a "brain break", a short switch-up from your studies to activate a different skill set. Using the NASA New Horizon's mission, we'll model Find Someone Who; I Have/Who Has?; Corners; Class Formations; and Logic Line-Ups. Presenter(s): Erich Landstrom – Seminole Ridge Community High School NGSSS: SC.912.N.1.7; SC.912.N.2.2; SC.912.N.2.5 Grade level: Middle – High Session 3: 10:45 - 11:35 The Pit and the Paperclip Pendulum Was Edgar Allen Poe a poet and physicist? Share with students the horror story of “The Pit and the Pendulum”. Then conduct a simple experiment to see the secret relationship of swings and if the prisoner could have escaped the sharpened scythe and ravenous rats. And what is the connection between the pit, and the moon craters of Fra Mauro Formation where the Apollo 14 astronauts landed on the moon? Presenter(s): Erich Landstrom – Seminole Ridge Community High School NGSSS: SC.912.P.10.6; SC.912.P.10.20 Grade level: High Session 4: 11:45 - 12:35 The Most Important Image Ever Taken: The HDF Examine the Hubble Deep Field image and simulate the ingenious process astronomers used to measure the size of the universe, and the number and type of galaxies. FREE posters, lithographs and lesson plans of HDF distributed. Presenter(s): Erich Landstrom – Seminole Ridge Community High School NGSSS: SC.912.E.5.1;SC.912.E.5.2;SC.912.E.5.8;SC.912.E.5.10; SC.912.E.5.11;SC.912.P.12.2;SC.912.P.12.4; SC.912.P.12.7;SC.912.N.1.3; SC.912.N.1.5; SC.912.N.1.6; SC.912.N.2.2Grade level: Middle – High About Danny Forster Danny Forster has built a career out of the ingenious solution: celebrating it as a television host, lecturing about it as a speaker and professor and finding it himself as a practicing designer. As the host of the Science Channel series Build It Bigger, Forster travels the world with a camera crew in search of incredible feats of architecture and engineering – a record-setting skyscraper, a city-saving levee, a mammoth cruise ship, a state-of-the-art football stadium. Forster’s passion for great architecture and his exceptional ability to share that passion have made him a sought-after speaker and a popular teacher. He has delivered keynote addresses at engineering and architecture conferences all over the world. In 2008 he joined the faculty at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, teaching an upper level graduate architecture studio on sustainable design. Designing pioneering projects for DANNY FORSTER Design Studio, lecturing internationally, and filming for Build it Bigger, Forster is continually at work and on the move creating, explaining, and popularizing ingenious design solutions. He is also at work, closer to home, as creator and executive producer of a documentary series about the rebuilding of Ground Zero. The Rising explores the coming to life of a work of architecture that solves a host of problems – cultural, physical, historical, environmental – within one coherent project.
