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Grades 7-10: Register by Mar. 5 for MIT SPARK (Mar. 16-17)

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The registration lottery is open now through 11:59PM on March 5 , and until that deadline all course preferences will be treated equally in the lottery. 3,2,1 Beyblade Physics! After that, any remaining seats will be open first-come/first-served. Students may choose from about 100 courses and must register on their own.

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Harnessing the power of music to improve mental health

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Interacting with music can have significant benefits for both your physical and mental health, meaning music can play an important role in your well-being. The benefits of music are spread across the spectrum of physical and mental health. Music is complex because it involves multiple senses.

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Top tips for engaging your STEM students

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While experiments have a key role in biology (e.g., performing chemical reactions) and physics (e.g., While some examples are obvious (mathematical equations are the base of physics principles which inform engineered structures and designs), it is equally important to combine STEM subjects with the arts and humanities.

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Living in a material world: the importance of materials science and engineering

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COMPOSITE – a material made from two materials with different physical and chemical properties. A material’s chemical properties are equally important. Expertise in physics and chemistry is needed to explore material properties, while engineering skills are needed to manufacture and test materials. STRUCTURE AND SCALE.

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Dental discoveries: How is dental research improving oral health?

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The condition of our teeth and mouth not only impacts our physical health, but also has a significant influence on our mental health. If we do not look after our teeth, the resulting physical discomfort and negative self-image can make us miserable. Unfortunately, some people have oral diseases that are not treated in time.

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Classroom resources for the new school year

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Biology Cells – A heathy adult produces billions of new blood cells every day, but problems with this process can lead to blood cancer, so Dr Kristina Ames is investigating why blood production problems occur. Physics Quantum physics – Associate Professor Jacquiline Romero is investigating quantum entanglement by experimenting with photons.

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Examining the extremely small

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A nanometre (nm) is a unit of measurement equal to a billionth of a metre, or 0.000001 mm. Nanoscientists manipulate materials at the atomic and molecular level, and thus nanoscience merges physics, chemistry, materials science and biology,” explains Susanne. How small are things at the nanoscale? What does CeNS do?