Genius hour is a period of time in which a student takes one hour out of a class once in a while and does something of his or hers interest. My interest revolved around what was Nano-tech engineering and it’s benefits to mankind. I chose such a topic because my main career interest for now is being a Nano-tech engineer. So, I chose to learn more about it’s benefits to us humans. The research question I used was “How does Nanotechnology benefit our humanity”?
The first day of research revolved around gathering main domains in which Nanotechnology really took it’s toll. On that day I gathered about two relevant websites that gave me extremely detailed information about a multiple areas in which Nano-tech was exceeding in. Thus one hour was a lot, I started to dig in what their uses were and cut down the list into the ones which I thought deserved more attention.
Medicine
- Viruses
- Cancers
Technology
- Programming
- AI
After acquiring general knowledge in the domains, I dived deeper in the subjects and took a lot of time trying to understand the information. There was an avalanche of new terms I was a stranger too. So, almost all of the next period I received was spent trying to make sense of the articles I had and recording it as understandable notes. The other days included in of generally the same routines followed with slowly creating my presentation.
From all my research, I learned about Microbivores who are extremely small robots injected into the blood stream. These robots: detect, prevent and destroy viruses 80 times more effectively than the average antibiotic. In the domain of improving medicine, I also learned about cyberplasm. Cyberplasm is yet another liquid that is injected in the blood stream. This liquid is filled with nano robots that travel throughout your body and communicate with your brain with electrical signals about disease to come. However, it also has and addition to being able to create artificial muscles to replace lost ones.
In my research, in the domain of technology I found about quantum dots. This is something out today but still being improved upon. Quantum dots is technology and drastically improve the visuals you receive from the piece of technology. Moreover, there is naturally going to be the topic of compressing data. Nano-tech is what science is mostly working with to be able to utilize larger amounts of data all the while using less space. Last but not least, there is AI. AI which stands for Artificial Intelligence working along with Nano-tech to create near human level intelligence. Cool or scary?
I chose a power point format and utilized 4 slides. The first introducing my subject and me. Thus following with a slide depicting what Nanotechnology really is since I had trouble with it myself. Then I followed with two slides; one for tech and the other for medicine. Finally ending with a works cited.
As a student, I would say that it did help me. A student is supposed to be growing and learning to be an active and productive member of society. This helps me because it is in my general interest and it teaches me about why this job is important but also teaches me to find reliable information about a topic I am somewhat oblivious too.
I would not say the what I’ve done helped the community in a great way but, I would say it did do something. It spread knowledge about what would possibly be more present in the future, as well as sparking others interests. If you are interested, click here to check out my presentation. The presentation as a whole seemed interesting for most of the class and I was particularly pleased by it as well.
My next project will revolve around the human psyche and emotions. I think this project will strongly benefit the community I’m in. To be able to more thoroughly understand human emotions and what triggers them. Also to probably able to control your own emotions with a bit more ease.
Works Cited