Maine School of Science & Mathematics
J-Term 2024 Course Offerings
** J-Term课程的注册需要在10月10日前与指导老师一起完成. 6 **
Off-Campus Options
Internships - (J. Primiano, Dubois)
During the two-week J-Term period, participating students are paired up with mentors in a job shadow environment which allows these students to delve into the fields of their own choosing. 这不仅在至少一个潜在的兴趣领域提供了宝贵的经验, 它还表明学生对课堂以外的学习有热情.
msm很乐意提供建议和协助，以确定安排, 但是学生和他们的家庭负责大部分的后勤工作, 包括找到实习地点, a mentor sponsor, transportation, and lodging.
Inclusive Dates: 2024年1月8日星期一到1月19日星期五 (可应要求提供其他日期.)
It is expected that students will participate in their internships from 9:00 am through 3:30 pm each weekday with a break for lunch. 然而，据了解，一些实习可能需要灵活安排工作时间. 在这种情况下，学生将被要求有大致的小时由夫人批准. Rhodes prior to the start of J-Term. 有兴趣完成额外时间的学生非常欢迎这样做. 这可能包括每天9点之前开始或3点半之后结束, 在j学期的两周之间的周末增加额外的时间, or beginning the internship anytime after the end of the fall semester and prior to the official start of J-Term. While spending as much time as possible on site is extremely beneficial and strongly encouraged, it is important to maintain the integrity of the official hours of 9:00 am through 3:30 pm each weekday.
Prerequisites: An exploratory spirit. Minimum sophomore standing.
Limit: None
A trip to the Inca Empire (Carson/Hamlin)
在我们j学期的十天里，你将去南美洲的秘鲁旅行. 一次难忘的经历，你将看到印加文化的魔力, 漫步世界新七大奇迹之一!
我们将于2024年7月1日在波士顿Logan机场见面(时间待定). 然后，我们将乘飞机去波士顿-迈阿密-利马. Once in Lima and Cusco, transportation, tour guides, and entrance fees are all included, some meals are not included, 这意味着你需要使用信用卡.
Tours include: Pre-Hispanic, 殖民地和现代利马:米拉弗洛雷斯和圣伊西德罗区, Huaca Pucllana Site Museum, Government Palace, Underground Catacombs, Sacsay Huaman fortress, The Sacred Valley, Aguas Calientes City, Machu Picchu City/Inca Ruins, Maras Salt Mines, Moray Inca Agricultural Laboratory, The Rainbow Mountain, The Valley of the Goblins, and so much more.
完整的10天行程可以在这里找到: Trip to Peru 2024
Prerequisites: 最好是西班牙语三、四、五年级的学生
Cost: $2,800/student: hotel/tours/transportation per student (age 17 and under) is $1200; round trip ticket from Boston-Lima-Boston as well as Lima-Cusco-Lima is $1600.
Dates: 1/7/24—1/17/24
Limit: 12 students
Can You See Atoms? (Rim)
人们花了2000多年才看到原子, 从那以后，希腊哲学家们一直在思考这个问题. We are going to focus on Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) at ambient conditions (in air and room temperature) to see carbon atoms on the surface of a Highly Oriented Pyrolytic Graphite (HOPG), and Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) also at ambient conditions to observe nanostructures on the surface of insulating substrates. After a brief introduction of quantum physics and tunneling phenomenon for the operation of STM, 在石灰石的第一周学习了原子力显微镜的原理, we visit Columbia University to have experience running STM and AFM for the second week (1/13 - 1/20). 在成功观察原子之后，我们可能会去曼哈顿市中心看看另一个世界. We are going to get together at Presque Isle airport to fly to New York on the 13th of January,
Cost: $3,250元/学生:石灰石至纽约来回机票, 酒店/地面运输/观光
Limits: Science Nerds only (5 students)
On-Campus Options
Austenland (Brigman, Madore)
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.作家简·奥斯汀写下这句话是什么意思? 她在为谁写作，她在讲什么故事? 这个关于简·奥斯汀世界的速成班将在9天内学习6本小说, looking at short, selected readings from each of Austen’s beloved works as well as brilliant cinematic adaptations of each one. 学生们将会遇到一些英国文学中最著名的人物:“固执”, headstrong girl,” Lizzy Bennet, the aloof and romantic Mr. 达西，误入歧途的爱玛，歇斯底里的埃玛. Collins. 我们还将探索奥斯汀世界的各种衍生作品: 《皇冠足彩网》《皇冠足彩》 and the Lizzy Bennett Diaries, to name a few. 拉把椅子过来，喝杯茶吧. Welcome to Austenland.
Limit: 10 students
The RPM Challenge – 皇冠足彩 Style (Chouiniere)
RPM的挑战是写，记录，制作，并在1个月内发布专辑. 皇冠足彩的学生太棒了，不可能花一个月的时间. 相反，我们将在1 J-Term内编写，录制，制作和发行一张专辑. 音乐背景不需要，但可能会有所帮助!
Limit: 10 students.
Blacksmithing (Katsman)
本课程旨在使学生熟悉锻造的基本技术. 虽然打铁是一门需要一辈子才能掌握的民间艺术, students in this course will gain a good basic understanding of the techniques necessary to forge steel and to create useful and elegant objects using hand-tools and fire. 这些将包括锥形，扭转，卷曲，镦粗和肩.
Course Requirements: 学生必须穿棉质或羊毛的衣服, 坚固的皮革或棉鞋(钢鞋头好，但不是必需的), hat (if desired), hearing protection, and eye protection. Synthetic fabric can catch fire and melt and thus NO SYNTHETIC FABRIC IS ALLOWED in the forging area. 每个学生都将得到一把锤子, tongs (which each student will make), 并且有足够的钢材用于课堂上的锻造练习. 如果学生希望承担一个项目，而不是那些在课堂上完成, that student should obtain instructor permission in advance as well as incur the additional material costs associated with the project.
Safety: 在整个课程运行期间，我们将采取一切可能的预防措施, 应当指出，打铁这一行为本身就有受伤的危险. 在进行任何工作之前，将进行安全和锻造礼仪讲座. 任何表现出不安全或不适当行为的人将被要求离开.
Limit:10
Supercalifragilistic引导独立项目 (Desneiges)
你有什么特别感兴趣的话题想进一步探讨吗? 你一直想拍一部纪录片吗, a podcast, 一个电子游戏或一个网页，致力于你喜欢探索的数学领域, science or the humanities, but your schedule during the academic year does not allow you to do so because of limited course offerings and time restraints? This J Term is for you!
学生将利用这两周的课程进行研究, 在一个有趣和安全的环境中，在他或她选择的领域探索和创造. 他们需要跳出思维定势. 学生将在开课前提交项目提案以获得批准. 你可能想要探索一个艺术项目, compose music, write a collection of short stories, 为数学教室创建资源, 探索历史或科学的迷人方面. 遵循你在提案中提出的计划, you will use the two weeks to work on your topic and create a product that can be shared with our community. (*你的主题必须是你在其他j学期课程中无法完成的, 这是你们在其他课程中没有充分探讨过的.)
Limit: 12 students
Winter (Eustis-Grandy)
Most of 皇冠足彩’s academic year occurs during a time that appears to be not ideal for living things. 我们的第一场霜冻发生在9月，10月通常会下点雪. 通常，雪会在11月到来，一直持续到4月初. What are organisms doing during this cold period - some leave, some avoid it, and some thrive in it. 在这个j术语中，我们将看看植物和动物是如何应对一年中的寒冷月份的. 我们还会去户外享受一些冬季活动, including snowshoeing, Nordic skiing, 并收集/分析一些关于积雪动力学的数据.
Limit: 10 students
Experimental Mathematics (Kavle)
让我们设计和构建很酷的数学演示或实验! The possibilities are nearly endless, from computational experiments to physical demonstrations. 可能的演示包括一个双摆, a harmonograph, 计算机生成的分形或模拟, a bouncing oil droplet experiment, Chladni plates, 圆锥截面和其他曲面的粘绳模型, crochet models of hyperbolic space, etc. 不需要任何先决条件，除了通过实验学习数学的愿望.
Limit: 15 students
Household & Hardware Music (Scott)
如果世界末日把你困在家里，只有你的无线电钻怎么办, your garage full of junk, and your house full of…well, 家里的东西，你有音乐? In H&H Music, we will research and build working, 原声乐器取材于你在商店或家里可以找到的材料, 只使用手动工具和无绳电钻, 从迪德利弓到PVC笛子再到斗式打击乐器.
Limit: 8 students
Weird Tales and Its Progeny (Boucher)
Founded in 1922, Weird Tales 以杂志形式在廉价的纸浆纸上连印的早期奇幻和恐怖故事. The publication included the debut of the so-called “Cthulhu Mythos” and regular appearances of Conan the Barbarian, for example. 虽然这本杂志推广了许多作家，但我们的课程将重点放在 Weird Tales’ big three of H.P. 洛夫克拉夫特，罗伯特·霍华德和克拉克·阿什顿·史密斯. 在课程中，我们将阅读和分析这“三巨头”的几个短篇小说.” Particular attention will be paid to genre archetypes and the stories’ representations or misrepresentations of certain groups of people. 我们还将看看这三位作者是如何为电影做出贡献的, television, 以及从20世纪晚期到今天的桌面游戏. Our final project is TBD, 但也可能包括创造我们自己的低俗故事, board game prototype, or tabletop scenario.
Limit: 6 students
丰富的文化——食物、音乐和文学 (Nsadha)
Discover and experience the rich Ugandan culture from diverse cultural groups without traveling to East Africa. In 1908, Sir Churchhill described Uganda as "the Pearl of Africa" after he explored several African countries. 你可以在乌干达找到丰富多彩的文化, including diverse cuisines, traditional music, and literature. 无论是当地美食的美味，还是欢快的音乐节奏, 每个人都有值得欣赏的东西.
Indeed, Ugandan cuisine has been significantly influenced by its interactions with other cultures. 它的烹饪受到了许多非洲国家、印度和欧洲传统的影响, 形成了独特的菜肴和不同的口味. 一些受欢迎的乌干达菜包括蒸香蕉, groundnut stew, and roasted meat skewers. 让我们来看看一些很受欢迎的菜，比如matooke(用青香蕉做的), chapati, and posho (Ugali), made from Maize flour, commonly served with meat stew, fish stew, or vegetables. We shall learn how to prepare some of these dishes and explore traditional music and instruments. 乌干达音乐以其活泼的节奏和迷人的曲调而广受认可. 乌干达人对游客的热情好客也是出了名的. 你知道吗，在世界上最欢迎外国人的国家中，乌干达排在美国之前?
Limit: 15 Students
Sidewalk Story: Take a crash-course in GIS and solve the rural transportation crisis in two weeks! (Bezborodko, 在Jarod Farn-Guillette的协助下, 缅因州交通部和皇冠足彩(2001级)
Come learn a versatile GIS (Geographic Information System) program that will allow you to make beautiful maps, visualize spatial patterns, 利用大量的地理数据来构建现实世界现象的模型. 通过解决缅因州农村交通障碍的问题来练习你的地图制作技能. 这门课程是由地理学家(Ms. Bezborodko)和交通部规划师(也是皇冠足彩校友)!) who is working on improving access to transportation and pedestrian safety here in Aroostook County. 除了GIS的技术方面, we will also learn innovative planning methods (story mapping) and landscape design and potentially contribute to real projects with the Maine DOT.
Who is this course for? Everyone! 地理信息系统在许多职业中是一项特别有用的技能——流行病学家, wildlife biologists, urban planners, civil engineers, civil servants of all sorts, 还有很多人每天都在使用它, 你也可以和她一起参与其他你感兴趣的项目. Bezborodko’s assistance. As for rural transit, 如果你曾经担心年迈的亲戚如何去看医生, hiked a “rail-to-trail” path, 或者在过马路时差点丧命, you have a stake in these projects.
Pre-requisites: 基本的计算机技能(保存文件、重命名文件、创建文件夹).
Limit: 16 students
