According to a press release, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology partnered with Engineering Tomorrow, a national STEM nonprofit, to bring one of Engineering Tomorrow's free real-world, hands-on STEM labs on Phototherapy into their classroom with a focus on facts and data-driven results, process skills, root cause mentality, being detailed oriented, and execution focus.
A statue at Thomas Jefferson High School
According to patch.com, "The hybrid lab used a vertical education approach for freshman biology, English, and technology students. Mr. William Woodburn, the Founder of Engineering Tomorrow and a founding partner of Global Infrastructure Partners, led the TJ students (approximately 80 students) through the phototherapy lab, which he authored and patented. (His patent is presently in clinical trials at Georgetown University) They combined the engineering design process with the scientific method to innovate and research a personal problem into studying and completing the Engineering Tomorrow project labs."
As per patch.com, "The students received feedback from engineers and university engineering students on their strategies and approaches to the lab experiment. Engineering Tomorrow college mentors and FCPS alum Sarah Syed and Zandy Wong, currently engineering students from MIT and Johns Hopkins respectively, provided a perspective on what it is like studying engineering at the university level and why they pursue STEM. Overall, students came out more confident and more interested in STEM and engineering than before! One student even said, "I learned that you can solve any solution (like Grover's disease) by using the engineering process and thinking outside of the box."
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