STEAM Education & Research
STEAM Internship Spotlight: Hive Tool
The honeybees have another ally on the MSU-St. Andrews campus; the Hive Tool Group. This group has focused on testing and calibrating sensors which will be placed inside St. Andrews’ beehives. These sensors will monitor the hive temperature, humidity, and weight. However, students are also evaluating ways in which to keep the sensors free of wax and comb which could potentially cause…
Entrepreneurial Game Creator Provides Lecture at MSU St. Andrews
The award-winning game designer and president of Columbia Games, Tom Dalgliesh, visited on August 10 to share his entrepreneurial experiences.
STEAM Internship Spotlight: Automated Gaming
The automated game opponent group, including students; David Lin, Amelia Mylvaganam, Sreya Manchiraju, Nathaniel Kalantar (all from Dow High School), Sid Somasi (Carmel High School), and Elliot Moore (Midland High School), studied Python for three weeks and then sought to design an automated opponent that can play a board game against a human player. The strategy game that they are analyzing has…
STEAM Internship Spotlight: Water Purification
Reema Patel, Emma Allington (both from Dow High School), and Gage Slominski (Hemlock High School) have been collaborating with their mentor, Dr. Daniel Henton, to remove fluoride from water without the use of electricity. The purification process involves an ion exchange resin where ionized groups are attached to a polymer backbone. This resin provides sites, which can bind various positive ions that…
STEAM Internship Spotlight: Hydrolysis
Kaily Metz and Rebecca Kowalczyk (both from Dow High School) have been conducting research on polyethyloxazoline and polyethylenimine (PEI) polymers in hopes of gaining a better understanding of the formation of the PEI product, which is used for gene transfection. Rebecca and Kaily are creating the PEI product through the process of hydrolysis and have spent considerable time examining the characteristics of…
STEAM Internship Spotlight: Bees & Miticide
St. Andrews campus is buzzing with excitement as Rebecca Henning (Midland High School), Jacqueline Laurin (Dow High School), and Trenton Mclean (Bay City Western High School) conduct research on a polymer-based miticide, which could help beekeepers with Varroa mite problems in hives across the United States. These interns have been investigating the effect of environmental conditions including humidity, temperature, and surface area…
STEAM Internship Spotlight: 3D Printing and Sensors
Stephen Gillman (Midland High School) is working on creating a 3D printed product that combines the properties of strength and malleability. Stephen’s experiments focus on the blend of graphene in the Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS filament) and the manipulation of the 3D printer settings to optimize the resulting product. Noah Smith (Freeland High School) and Sam Shepich (Saginaw Arts and Sciences Academy)…
Eliminating the Honey Bee’s Biggest Enemy
MSU St. Andrews researcher, Edmund Stark, and his team of interns, are working on a new solution to save honey bees by wiping out a parasitic enemy.
Robotics Team Students Attend 3D Printing Workshop
Students from Jefferson Middle School’s robotics teams visited MSU St. Andrews to hone their engineering skills for future competitions.
Midland Students Win DCAT Awards at 2018 Intel Science Fair
Seniors Brandon Zhu (left) and Daniel Zhang (right) won for their project: Release of Active Pharmaceuticals Using Hyperbranched Polyesters.
