Fisher Middle School
Today Zach visits Fisher Middle School to learn more about the history and future of Virtual Reality while experiencing how it works today.
South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards 2021 ETS2.A: Interdependence of Science, Engineering, and Technology Engineering advances have led to important discoveries in virtually every field of science, and scientific discoveries have led to the development of entire industries and engineered systems.
CTE Innovation Center
You may never fly into space but you can design and build components that take people and supplies there. Today Zach learns more about the aerospace industry in SC and careers that it requires.
South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards 2021 ETS2.A: Interdependence of Science, Engineering, and Technology Engineering advances have led to important discoveries in virtually every field of science, and scientific discoveries have led to the development of entire industries and engineered systems.
McNair Aerospace Center
Today Zach visits McNair Aerospace Center to explore career options in SC that utilize robotics and artificial intelligence.
South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards 2021 ETS2.A: Interdependence of Science, Engineering, and Technology Engineering advances have led to important discoveries in virtually every field of science, and scientific discoveries have led to the development of entire industries and engineered systems.
Greenwood Genetic Center
Zach revisits Greenwood Genetic Center to explore plant DNA and and the benefits of its research.
7.L.4A. Conceptual Understanding: Inheritance is the key process causing similarities between parental organisms and their offspring. Organisms that reproduce sexually transfer genetic information (DNA) to their offspring. This transfer of genetic information through inheritance leads to greater similarity among individuals within a population than between populations. Technology allows humans to influence the transfer of genetic information.
Roper Mountain
Today Zach visits Roper Mountain and experiences life frozen in time as he explores fossils and animal characteristics that helped prevent extinction for certain organisms.
8.E.6A. Conceptual Understanding: The geologic time scale interpreted from rock strata provides a way to organize major historical events in Earth’s history. Analysis of rock strata and the fossil record, which documents the existence, diversity, extinction, and change of many life forms throughout history, provide only relative dates, not an absolute scale. Changes in life forms are shaped by Earth’s varying geological conditions.
Gene Haas Center for Advanced Manufacturing
Today Mitch visits one of the many Gene Haas training centers and discovers that in many industries that create the many items we encounter everyday, from car parts to Grandpa’s new hip, was once programmed and tooled by a machinist using advanced technology.
South Carolina College- and Career-Ready Science Standards 2021 ETS2.B: Influence of Engineering, Technology, and Science on Society and the Natural World The uses of technologies and any limitations on their use are driven by individual or societal needs, desires, and values; by the findings of scientific research; and by differences in such factors as climate, natural resources, and economic conditions. Thus, technology use varies from region to region and over time.