In November, the chapter recognized Dave Purdon, a science teacher at Woodrow Wilson High School (Camden, New Jersey), as the 2013 winner of a $1,000 AFCEA STEM grant. Purdon's grant application enables his class to build three different projects: (1) a fractal antenna for their NASA Radio Jove Project (which they built with their 2010 AFCEA STEM grant) to monitor RF transmissions from Jupiter; (2) a spectrophotometer to generate spectra of various compounds and determine the concentration (visible wavelength) of a substance in water; and (3) an Arduino microcontroller "computer," which the students learn to program in order to generate a musical (piano) output, control a robot and build a video game controller.
Some of the Woodrow Wilson High School students that participated were Josue Soto, Roberto Santiago, Amber Camacho and Alfredo Llorens;. |
