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Recent Posts
Caroline - Chugging Along Conducting Research
Hello everyone, it’s Caroline,
I can’t believe the summer is going by so fast! It has truly been a wonderful experience being a 3M Young Scientist Finalist. I am so gratefu
Jaya-Always Be Informed
Salutations, all! This is Jaya with my fourth blog post.
Since my last blog post, I have mainly been researching.
Faraz-My Golden Ticket
Picking one solution out of many was just like finding which Monka bar holds the golden ticket.
Samyak - Picking a Final Problem!
Welcome back fellow scientists,
I hope you are all doing fantastic and having a great summer.
Camellia- Yay, I have my picked my project!
Thought starters: Post about the process of picking just one problem/solution to focus on. What was the biggest factor in your decision?
Jordan - Narrowing Down problems
Hi again! This is Jordan, and this is my third blog post.
You can watch it here below:
Nishant- My Research Journey
Through working on iCART and competing in the 3M Young Scientist Challenge, I have learned many things. Perhaps most importantly, I have learned to convert ideas to testable hypotheses.
Yosef- Not All Solutions Are Equal
This past week, my 3M mentor sent me some links to explore potential solutions along the lines of my initial idea, which was to use ocean space to add carbon sinks to the Earth.
Reshma - And Then There Was One
Hello! This is my third blog post and I want to talk about the process I went through for selecting a topic to work on.
Kara-The Final Decision
Limiting all the problems down to three wasn't too hard, but picking just one problem to focus on was pretty difficult. I had to figure out which problem has the greatest impact on the world a