#middle/high school was an Experience

[cluster-b-culture-is]

aspd culture is having such a bad resting bitch face that you’ve accidentally made 15 people hate you

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[nasa]

Student Experiments Soar!

Have you ever wondered what it takes to get a technology ready for space? The NASA TechRise Student Challenge gives middle and high school students a chance to do just that – team up with their classmates to design an original science or technology project and bring that idea to life as a payload on a suborbital vehicle.

Since March 2021, with the help of teachers and technical advisors, students across the country have dreamed up experiments with the potential to impact space exploration and collect data about our planet.

So far, more than 180 TechRise experiments have flown on suborbital vehicles that expose them to the conditions of space. Flight testing is a big step along the path of space technology development and scientific discovery.

The 2023-2024 TechRise Challenge flight tests took place this summer, with 60 student teams selected to fly their experiments on one of two commercial suborbital flight platforms: a high-altitude balloon operated by World View, or the Xodiac rocket-powered lander operated by Astrobotic. Xodiac flew over the company’s Lunar Surface Proving Ground — a test field designed to simulate the Moon’s surface — in Mojave, California, while World View’s high-altitude balloon launched out of Page, Arizona.

Here are four innovative TechRise experiments built by students and tested aboard NASA-supported flights this summer:

1. Oobleck Reaches the Skies

Oobleck, which gets its name from Dr. Seuss, is a mixture of cornstarch and water that behaves as both a liquid and a solid. Inspired by in-class science experiments, high school students at Colegio Otoqui in Bayomón, Puerto Rico, tested how Oobleck’s properties at 80,000 feet aboard a high-altitude balloon are different from those on Earth’s surface. Using sensors and the organic elements to create Oobleck, students aimed to collect data on the fluid under different conditions to determine if it could be used as a system for impact absorption.

2. Terrestrial Magnetic Field

Middle school students at Phillips Academy International Baccalaureate School in Birmingham, Alabama, tested the Earth’s magnetic field strength during the ascent, float, and descent of the high-altitude balloon. The team hypothesized the magnetic field strength decreases as the distance from Earth’s surface increases.

3. Rocket Lander Flame Experiment

To understand the impact of dust, rocks, and other materials kicked up by a rocket plume when landing on the Moon, middle school students at Cliff Valley School in Atlanta, Georgia, tested the vibrations of the Xodiac rocket-powered lander using CO2 and vibration sensors. The team also used infrared (thermal) and visual light cameras to attempt to detect the hazards produced by the rocket plume on the simulated lunar surface, which is important to ensure a safe landing.

4. Rocket Navigation

Middle and high school students at Tiospaye Topa School in LaPlant, South Dakota, developed an experiment to track motion data with the help of a GPS tracker and magnetic radar. Using data from the rocket-powered lander flight, the team will create a map of the flight path as well as the magnetic field of the terrain. The students plan to use their map to explore developing their own rocket navigation system.

The 2024-2025 TechRise Challenge is now accepting proposals for technology and science to be tested on a high-altitude balloon! Not only does TechRise offer hands-on experience in a live testing scenario, but it also provides an opportunity to learn about teamwork, project management, and other real-world skills.

“The TechRise Challenge was a truly remarkable journey for our team,” said Roshni Ismail, the team lead and educator at Cliff Valley School. “Watching them transform through the discovery of new skills, problem-solving together while being driven by the chance of flying their creation on a [rocket-powered lander] with NASA has been exhilarating. They challenged themselves to learn through trial and error and worked long hours to overcome every obstacle. We are very grateful for this opportunity.”

Are you ready to bring your experiment design to the launchpad? If you are a sixth to 12th grade student, you can make a team under the guidance of an educator and submit your experiment ideas by November 1. Get ready to create!

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[starryalpacasstuff]

Let's talk about how lonely it feels once you realize that everyone you grew up with hates an integral part of what you are. Let's talk about wondering what goes through your friends' minds when they make crude, insulting jokes while knowing that you're queer. About learning the hard way that acceptance cannot be your default expectation in the world you live in. Let's talk about the horrible game you have to play with every person who isn't openly declaring their hate for gay people to figure out where a person stands on queerness without ever mentioning them. About how you already know what the result will be, but you allow yourself to have a tiny bit of wretched hope every time that you will be proven wrong, only to be proven right every time. About learning to expect the worst instead of the best from people. Let's talk about how people don't even use slurs because 'gay' is insult enough to them. About how tired and alone and pissed you feel. About being exhausted of compromise, compromise, compromise when all you want is to be loved for who you are. About wondering why can't people just let people be. Let's talk about smiling awkwardly and faking laughter at jokes that make you die a little inside. About wanting to scream and fight but knowing that ultimately, it's useless. And let's talk about feeling completely, utterly, helpless to do anything about any of it.

[studywgabi]

Academic Comeback Icons:

While I love the classic study icons like Blair Waldorf, Elle Woods, Hermione Granger, Spencer Hastings, Rory Gilmore, Paris Geller, Devi Vishwakumar, Maeve Wiley, and Cristina Yang, let's not forget about the characters who haven't had a perfect 4.0 since preschool. I find characters who struggled but got themselves together and turned things around even more inspiring, and I hope you do, too! Please feel free to add on your own academic comeback examples. (Spoilers ahead).

Jeremy Gilbert (The Vampire Diaries): Jeremy suffers a debilitating personal loss and neglects schoolwork during the end of his freshman year and beginning of his sophomore, but then asks for extra credit and makes a fresh start.

Serena Van Der Woodson (Gossip Girl): Serena's grades and attendance suffer during her sophomore year, but she makes a comeback in her junior year and gets into Brown and Columbia!

Candance and Charlie (The Perks of Being a Wallflower): Candance's grades slip during her abusive relationship with Ponytail Derek, but she recovers and graduates as the salutatorian! Charlie repeats a grade due to non-attendance but goes on to do extra credit and make the most of high school academically and socially.

Hanna Marin (Pretty Little Liars): After barely studying for the SATs in season 2, Hanna sets a personal goal for herself in season 3 to expand her vocabulary and sticks to it. Jubilation!

Harry Potter: Though Harry struggles in some subjects, he recognizes his strengths and realizes that the best way to make sure you understand something is to teach it to someone else. Harry realizes his dream of being an auror despite challenges and helps others.

Lorelai Gilmore: Lorelai III may be a Mary Sue, but Lorelai II is a more realistic, hard-working student and mother who knows it's never too late to follow (or figure out) your dreams. She puts herself through college and earns her degree while working full time and raising a nuisance.

The Main Characters of Community: All of these characters are returning to school for various reasons and get back on track after some aspect of their lives not going according to plan. They find, well, community in their study group and help each other reach their goals.

[aromanticduck]

Not counting celebrity crushes or fictional crushes - only people that you actually knew. If you did different things with different crushes, choose what you did most often.

Weird for me to be thinking about romance this much, I know, but I'm curious.

[icewindandboringhorror]

reminders of the passage of time moodeboard

[arielluva]

i keep thinking about how scared i am about starting college and im trying to hammer in "do it scared" with the like. 3 weeks i have before it starts

[everybody-hit-the-pyro-cue]

specialized education and gifted children programs are so fucked up I see the purpose but the execution and expectations are genuinely horrific I've yet to meet a single one of us that's doing okay besides from those who just reached their breaking point and chose to stop caring

[somedudewithantlers]

ya girl Steve is not doing all that great in college work life

[shiratorizawa-academy]

Hello, shiratorizawa friend 🫵

Thoughts on tendou and semi as childhood best friends?

CUTE REALLY CUTE!!!!

i image that they would have lived near each other but wouldn't have interacted much until one day preschooler tendou just decided that they're friends now. and semi would have gone along with it the way kids usually do. and then just never stopped? that's his best friend now. why, you ask? more like why not? he always has been? he's fun to be around and he's always got your back.

i feel like both of them would have profited from it growing up, too. tendou would have had a friend when no one else wanted to play with him and semi would have had a person who stands out even more than he does. they would have been each other's safe havens through the judgemental middle school years <3

[canon-gabriel-quotes]

Do you have a tag where we can check out your art?

Nope, but I suppose I can try to remember to tag it when I add it. key word is try.

If you want to see more mostly very old art that is nothing like what I post on here:

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Instagram <- this one has 1 (one) gabe pic on it lol

[rosesradio]

so i finished an application to my local library, please be manifesting for me to get this job, it’s notoriously hard to get library jobs (which is why i went into this field, obviously :’) )

[herbaklava]

The “Gen Zs/Millennials are like this” posts are so funny to me because 99% of the time they lack the nuance of the fact that there’s a disconnect between older and younger people within every generation. Younger teens in Gen Z who only ever knew 2010s tech and TikTok aren’t gonna have the same technological experiences as early 20 somethings in Gen Z who had the chance to be children without TikTok and with 2000s/early 2010s tech.

[starstruckodysseys]

the shared experience between me and six fictional characters of firmly believing someone Fucks and being absolutely crushed upon finding out they don’t

[pickapea]

my absolutely biggest online pet peeve is US centric people projecting their rich sorority girl bully stereotype of nurses onto everyone else, as if nurses aren't working class and mostly immigrants of colour everywhere else. and when did it become cool to hate on underpaid and exploited workers anyway

[guccigarantine]

i don’t think i ever said this but i have a head canon that cori naturally has very curly hair but straightened it so that she could braid it but then after breaking up with devotion and joining perennial she cut it short and stop straightening it and everyone on the blue channel thought she got a perm