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Projects and lessons submitted by attendees:

Laura Reeve __The Girls' Middle School__ Newton Scooter Vehicles - As a culmination of our unit about forces and Newton's laws of motion, students build vehicles that are powered by Newton's 3rd Law of Motion and create websites summarizing the project. The websites include photos and videos.

Licia Kovach __Laurel School__ Robotics, bridge building, ethical debates, building solar cars, study of hydrology with fieldtrip.

Richard Abbondanzio __The Hockaday School__ Lower to Upper school all our teachers strive to integrate science technology and engineering in the broadest sense. Students are always asked to consider how the system under discussion works and often design and build model systems to explore further.

Lisa Rein and Andrea Perry __Garrison Forest School__ WISE -- Women in Science and Engineering program; partners students with Johns Hopkins University facutly for mentoring and hands on STEM laboratory research; semester long residential program open to students from GFS and beyond.

Rich Gastel __The Hewitt School__

Christopher Lee __Holton-Arms__

Tom Mattson __Agnes Irwin School__

Melissa Wert __Harpeth Hall School__

Stacy Klein __Vanderbilt University__

Meera Shaw __Dana Hall School__ One of our science teachers is forming two teams of girls who will design and build sustainable wind energy models and compete with several additional teams from other area schools.