Me and my Experiences
Hello my name is Hope Dannar. I am a 2018 Xcel Energy Scholar. The teachers here are amazing and it's so inspiring to be around fellow high achievers.
I would like to start by telling you a little bit about myself. I live in Greeley and attend University High School, I am graduating in 2019. I am a straight A student who is determined, a high achiever, and I love physics. I have always been involved with my class representative, last year I was the junior class president. This taught me a lot, including how to take initiative, stay calm, and to handle things around me. One thing that taught me this was planning prom. This was very stressful for me, I love to have everything perfect. Especially since everyone was planning on this night being perfect. From this experience I have learned to stay calm and take care of things one thing at a time.
A career path has always been hard to choose for me, I have so many interests. I love God, public speaking, giving people a voice, physics, teaching, and so much more. Because of this some career options that I am looking for in the future is a criminal defense attorney, a preacher, a motivational speaker, and a physics teacher. Through this program I have learned more about myself and more of what I want to be in the future. Now I am looking into maybe being some type of mechanical engineer.
This program is a challenging experience for me, which is different, and I am not used to it. It's good for me though, I have three classes. My favorite is physics and then I have math, and bio. In physics we are learning 2D kinematics. Some of my favorite activities I have done are, calculating where a dart when shot from a gun will go, then setting up a hoop and seeing if my calculations were correct. Another thing we are doing in physics is Matlab, this is different for me. I am not a fan of coding because it hates me. I will have gravity defined but then it doesn't sense it, so that is a challenge for me but I am learning it. Our math teacher is the best I have ever had, this is because instead of our teacher putting an equation on the board and telling us to memorize it, we prove it. Anything that we say we have to explain why and I am starting to understand things in more depth that I didn't know was possible. Biology is new for me, I have never taken a biology class, I had never had an interest before this. But through this class I have learned many things, that I have very steady hands, that I love micropipetting, and that biology is really interesting. I love physics because it fascinates me. That is actually what my project is on.
My project is building a hydrodynamic system and observing its quantum like behavior. We have a speaker connected to an oil bath and when you turn the speaker on, it oscillates. This causes ripples in the oil bath, and when you prick the oil it makes a droplet. This droplet then bounces on the oil, when you get it to the right frequency the droplet will move around also known as walking. When tracked the droplet will show quantum like effects that can be studied and translated to quantum physics. My mentor already had a system to do this, so my classmate and I took on the task of designing a new one to make improvements. The focus of this experiment is to use magnets. The speaker will have a small sphere magnet connected to an arrow shaft that will hold of the oil bath. The sphere magnet is connected to the speaker with a recessed magnet so the arrow shaft can roster. Inside the arrow shaft will be another magnet, so when the ring magnet is placed on the outside not only will it hold the oil bath up in the middle but it will also cancel out the weight of the oil bath. When a droplet is started on the oil bath it can be tracked for a long period of time. When this is tracted you can see the quantum like effects, like the droplet looks as if it is moving randomly, but after the time it is actually creating rings, this is called quantum corralling. My project fascinates me.
Another thing that I am learning is how to write a science research paper. I have never done this, so it has been a huge learning process for me. I have already rewritten my introduction at least 5 times. This is an amazing opportunity, because I am doing college level research with a college graduate student.
We also have taken many field trips, some of my favorites include, a trip to the St. Vrain Xcel Energy power plant, the CU planetarium, NEON, Seagate and CSU. NEON was amazing because we collected samples from a pond and looked at them under a microscope. This was interesting to me because I had no idea all the stuff that was in the water. CSU was also one of my favorites because because it was based on their Engineering program. So they took us into a science lab and we had competitions on who could create the best prosthetic leg with the materials provided and who could create a system that measures your heart rate on a breadboard, my team got first. Seagate was fascinating, I saw a robot that picked up pucks and made a tower from them. Some fellow FSI students and I discovered how this robot moved. Which was through a system with a screw that almost made it seem like a conveyor belt. The plantarum was cool because I love stars, something new that I learned that the further away from the Earth you get the stars stay in the constellations until you get very far away. The power plant was educating, what fascinated me was the nuclear area. How careful everything was and how precise everything had to be.
I am also enjoying dorm life. I am a very social person so I love being surrounded by people. One of my favorite things is when we all work downstairs on our papers together. It's nice, we have all bonded already. So it makes FSI an amazing atmosphere to be in. On the 4th of July we all sat out in front of the dorm and watched the parade, later that day we went to the stampede. This was amazing, I live in Greeley but I had only been to the stampeted once. I actually won a fish who is living in my dorm room living a happy life, she makes me very happy.
Over all I love FSI. Every day is a new adventure, I am learning many things about how college will be like, what sciences I like, what I want to do in my future, and organization. I am usually an awful procrastinator, but with our paper that is due with our research I have been keeping up and staying ahead of the deadlines. I am really proud of this, that I am staying on top of things, working on my paper, and enjoying my time while I am here.
Hope Dannar
I would like to start by telling you a little bit about myself. I live in Greeley and attend University High School, I am graduating in 2019. I am a straight A student who is determined, a high achiever, and I love physics. I have always been involved with my class representative, last year I was the junior class president. This taught me a lot, including how to take initiative, stay calm, and to handle things around me. One thing that taught me this was planning prom. This was very stressful for me, I love to have everything perfect. Especially since everyone was planning on this night being perfect. From this experience I have learned to stay calm and take care of things one thing at a time.
A career path has always been hard to choose for me, I have so many interests. I love God, public speaking, giving people a voice, physics, teaching, and so much more. Because of this some career options that I am looking for in the future is a criminal defense attorney, a preacher, a motivational speaker, and a physics teacher. Through this program I have learned more about myself and more of what I want to be in the future. Now I am looking into maybe being some type of mechanical engineer.
This program is a challenging experience for me, which is different, and I am not used to it. It's good for me though, I have three classes. My favorite is physics and then I have math, and bio. In physics we are learning 2D kinematics. Some of my favorite activities I have done are, calculating where a dart when shot from a gun will go, then setting up a hoop and seeing if my calculations were correct. Another thing we are doing in physics is Matlab, this is different for me. I am not a fan of coding because it hates me. I will have gravity defined but then it doesn't sense it, so that is a challenge for me but I am learning it. Our math teacher is the best I have ever had, this is because instead of our teacher putting an equation on the board and telling us to memorize it, we prove it. Anything that we say we have to explain why and I am starting to understand things in more depth that I didn't know was possible. Biology is new for me, I have never taken a biology class, I had never had an interest before this. But through this class I have learned many things, that I have very steady hands, that I love micropipetting, and that biology is really interesting. I love physics because it fascinates me. That is actually what my project is on.
My project is building a hydrodynamic system and observing its quantum like behavior. We have a speaker connected to an oil bath and when you turn the speaker on, it oscillates. This causes ripples in the oil bath, and when you prick the oil it makes a droplet. This droplet then bounces on the oil, when you get it to the right frequency the droplet will move around also known as walking. When tracked the droplet will show quantum like effects that can be studied and translated to quantum physics. My mentor already had a system to do this, so my classmate and I took on the task of designing a new one to make improvements. The focus of this experiment is to use magnets. The speaker will have a small sphere magnet connected to an arrow shaft that will hold of the oil bath. The sphere magnet is connected to the speaker with a recessed magnet so the arrow shaft can roster. Inside the arrow shaft will be another magnet, so when the ring magnet is placed on the outside not only will it hold the oil bath up in the middle but it will also cancel out the weight of the oil bath. When a droplet is started on the oil bath it can be tracked for a long period of time. When this is tracted you can see the quantum like effects, like the droplet looks as if it is moving randomly, but after the time it is actually creating rings, this is called quantum corralling. My project fascinates me.
Another thing that I am learning is how to write a science research paper. I have never done this, so it has been a huge learning process for me. I have already rewritten my introduction at least 5 times. This is an amazing opportunity, because I am doing college level research with a college graduate student.
We also have taken many field trips, some of my favorites include, a trip to the St. Vrain Xcel Energy power plant, the CU planetarium, NEON, Seagate and CSU. NEON was amazing because we collected samples from a pond and looked at them under a microscope. This was interesting to me because I had no idea all the stuff that was in the water. CSU was also one of my favorites because because it was based on their Engineering program. So they took us into a science lab and we had competitions on who could create the best prosthetic leg with the materials provided and who could create a system that measures your heart rate on a breadboard, my team got first. Seagate was fascinating, I saw a robot that picked up pucks and made a tower from them. Some fellow FSI students and I discovered how this robot moved. Which was through a system with a screw that almost made it seem like a conveyor belt. The plantarum was cool because I love stars, something new that I learned that the further away from the Earth you get the stars stay in the constellations until you get very far away. The power plant was educating, what fascinated me was the nuclear area. How careful everything was and how precise everything had to be.
I am also enjoying dorm life. I am a very social person so I love being surrounded by people. One of my favorite things is when we all work downstairs on our papers together. It's nice, we have all bonded already. So it makes FSI an amazing atmosphere to be in. On the 4th of July we all sat out in front of the dorm and watched the parade, later that day we went to the stampede. This was amazing, I live in Greeley but I had only been to the stampeted once. I actually won a fish who is living in my dorm room living a happy life, she makes me very happy.
Over all I love FSI. Every day is a new adventure, I am learning many things about how college will be like, what sciences I like, what I want to do in my future, and organization. I am usually an awful procrastinator, but with our paper that is due with our research I have been keeping up and staying ahead of the deadlines. I am really proud of this, that I am staying on top of things, working on my paper, and enjoying my time while I am here.
Hope Dannar