The following ideas are thought-starters to help you identify a focus for your project. You are encouraged to consider one of these topics or come up with their own ideas!

 

HOW WE MANUFACTURE

From automobiles to your kitchen sink, manufacturing is essential to making every day life run more efficiently.

What kinds of technologi are available to:

• Ensure clean breathing air for people in all communities?

• Provide safe drinking water to people across the world?

• Help increase the production of goods without the use of fossil fuels?

• Improve the efficiency of production at minimal costs?

 

HOW WE PROVIDE ENERGY

Energy is the key to keeping the world working and one of the most fundamental parts of our daily lives.

What kinds of technologies are available to:

• Help plants grow in dry climates?

• Provide electricity to underdeveloped countries?

• Make transportation easier without automation?

• Help limit the amount of fossil fuels in the environment?

• Find ways to help people reduce their environmental footprint?

• Reuse energy in creative ways?

• Harness clean renewable energy to power our devices?

 

HOW WE STAY SAFE

Whether you’re on the sports field or crossing the street, safety should always come first.

What kinds of technologies are available to:

• Detect and alert people of the likelihood of an accident happening?

• Protect people from workplace dangers?

• Make it safer to travel during bad weather?

• Prevent a sports related injury from happening?

• Create ways to reduce the risk of accidents?

 

HOW WE STAY HEALTHY

Living a healthy lifestyle and ensuring the health of others is crucial to having long and productive lives.

What kinds of technologies are available to:

• Provide healthy  and safe foods to all communities?

• Detect and alert people of the onset of health problems?

• Make healthcare products available to underdeveloped communities?

• Perform diagnostics without the use of modern technology?

• Provide ways for people of all abilities and situations to excersise? 

 

HOW WE COMMUNICATE

Communication is key to  success—in relationships, in the workplace, as a citizen of your country, and across your lifetime.

What kinds of technologies are available to:

• Travel across the world?

• Share ideas with one person, multiple individuals, a community, across the world?

• Share innovations?

 

HOW WE ENTERTAIN OURSELVES

Entertainment is important as it brings people together and is a good way for the entire family to bond. 

What kinds of technologies are available to:

• Divert our attention from the demands of everyday life?

• Amuse you in your leisure time?

 

 

ACTION

 

Identify one piece of technology that you would like to explore further. Remember your objective is to track the development of the technology and imagine its future.

 

Once you have identified the technology you want to innovate:

• Write a detailed overview of the technology.

• Include the scientific principles involved in its functioning.

• Explain one limitation or problem of this current technology that you and your team will solve.

 

NOTE: As you work on this project, make sure you keep track of all your resources AND you are using the CITE-IT rubric to evaluate them.