According to Merriam Webster, science is defined as the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment. This is a very complex and wordy way of saying that science is the study of everything and anything through means of experimentation and lengthy experimentation. This idea to an average fifth grader wouldn’t hit home nearly as it would for me, as a junior.
I have gone through years of science, ranging from the first grade all the way to where I am now, AP Chemistry. From the very beginning I was taught to never stop questioning. I learned early on to look at everything in my life, through a scientific point of view. This means looking at a flower and thinking how vibrant it is I could see the vivid green, yellow and white of the flower. How all …show more content…
Up until high school, I have never experienced science as I did in a high school environment, specifically in DRS, where I fell in love with chemistry in 10th grade. It was so interesting to look at the different ways our environment, even ourselves, at a cellular level interact with one another. This love for the science influenced me to take upon myself the challenge of AP Chemistry. So far I have further developed and honed my skills. I have further ingrained in myself the idea to question everything. There are so many exceptions to rules, especially in chemistry, that challenge the way those rules are applied. It teaches me to take nothing for granted. This is truly, in my eyes, the meaning of science. It’s the idea to ingrain in children from a young age to question everything. Learn from everything and from your newfound acquired knowledge grow. Educate others, and just keep o n exploring. This is what I hope to be able to accomplish from the Summer Science Research Program (SSRP) in The Rockefeller
I have gone through years of science, ranging from the first grade all the way to where I am now, AP Chemistry. From the very beginning I was taught to never stop questioning. I learned early on to look at everything in my life, through a scientific point of view. This means looking at a flower and thinking how vibrant it is I could see the vivid green, yellow and white of the flower. How all …show more content…
Up until high school, I have never experienced science as I did in a high school environment, specifically in DRS, where I fell in love with chemistry in 10th grade. It was so interesting to look at the different ways our environment, even ourselves, at a cellular level interact with one another. This love for the science influenced me to take upon myself the challenge of AP Chemistry. So far I have further developed and honed my skills. I have further ingrained in myself the idea to question everything. There are so many exceptions to rules, especially in chemistry, that challenge the way those rules are applied. It teaches me to take nothing for granted. This is truly, in my eyes, the meaning of science. It’s the idea to ingrain in children from a young age to question everything. Learn from everything and from your newfound acquired knowledge grow. Educate others, and just keep o n exploring. This is what I hope to be able to accomplish from the Summer Science Research Program (SSRP) in The Rockefeller