After you finished your first term in STEM school, explain a motivating situation that influenced you while working on your previous project and how this gave you a push.
You have spent a few weeks working with your new team members. Explain two aspects you dislike in working with the new teammates and how you can adapt with them.
If a friend is suffering from organizing their timeline during Ramadan, suggest three strategies they can follow to help address this issue.
You have noticed that one of your teammates has experienced a sharp decline in performance. What advice would you give him/her to help him/her regain his/her performance?
In your capstone, you have gone through many stages and each stage you have to take a decision. Explain how your Capstone experience will impact any decision you make in your life.
You have completed your first capstone project and known how your performance was evaluated, explain two strategies you will implement to enhance your performance during the upcoming challenge this semester.
After entering STEM schools, the study system changed, and the project took up a significant amount of your usual study time. Explain how you organize your time between studying different subjects and working on the project. *
In your previous capstone project, you collaborated with team members with diverse personalities, skills, and cultural backgrounds. Describe two skills you acquired from this collaboration and their significance in your academic life. *
One of the most important skills that related to achieve perfect capstone is time management. Explain three points that your team followed to achieve good time management this semester.
Within the capstone work, you were assigned to one of the roles within the team (writer-researcher…etc.) and you felt that it was not suitable for you. Explain two points you could take to convince the leader to change this situation.
Human personality is a character for each one of us, which we try to develop, Explain three points that your existence inside STEM schools and working on a capstone project as a team member helps you to develop your personality.
Being in a boarding school away from your family and friends, living in a society that is completely new to you, explain, through two advantages and two disadvantages, the impact of this on your lifestyle.
There are many differences between tradition education and STEM system, explain from your opinion three differences to help a grade 9 student to decide which system is suitable for him.
Through working in the previous semester on your capstone project, you got some experiences that will reflect on your work this semester. Explain with two different examples how you can benefit from these experiences to improve your performance in this second term.
One of the important benefits of working in the capstone is to improve your performance. After analysis of your work in the previous capstone, explain a plan to improve your work in the capstone project and how this plan will save you time and effort in this new semester.
It is a new term and you are working now with a new teamwork on a new capstone. What is your approach to develop the communication between team members as a leader and as a member of this team?
As a group leader you are responsible of finishing the project on time but due to rush time your team may neglect the safety precautions. Explain the plan in steps you have put to be sure that the team will do for achieving safety *
The ethics of practical research contradicts the existence of plagiarism and the use of previous ideas transferred from the references literally. How can you, as a team leader, direct your team to the correct scientific way of thinking following the ethics of scientific methods, clarifying two skills of scientific research in thinking. *
It is okay to make mistakes if we learn from them. Give one example of a mistake you made in semester 1 that affected your work. Describe how you have benefitted from this mistake. Explain your plan to avoid making the same mistake this semester. *
In any team, there can be a student that is not putting enough effort into the project compared to their teammates. Explain how you can use positive approaches, or transfer your positive energy, to increase this student's contribution. *
EDP
Understanding the problem clearly is the first important step in your project; explain the most important challenge that face you in identifying the problem that you are trying to overcome.
To improve your work, you must make several modifications during your research. Explain two methods that you had to adjust and a reason behind each change.
You have chosen your challenge problem and researched previous trials to solve similar issues. Explain three modifications you made to the selected prior solutions to meet your design requirements.*
According to the EDP process, you are supposed to be in the stage of constructing your prototype which is the most important stage. Explain two prototyping steps you made.
In constructing and testing your prototype, you used measurement tools to get results. Explain how you ensure that you have accurate results.
Utilizing the Engineering Design Process (EDP) to achieve your project idea in the shortest possible time. Explain two methods to reduce the time and effort required to identify these knowledge sources.
During the research step of the Engineering Design Process, explain how will studying existing methods, technologies, or real-world examples help you generate ideas, and improve your energy system design.
At this stage, you are working on developing your project design. Describe how the steps of the Engineering Design Process (EDP) have improved functionality, efficiency, and sustainability, and how they effectively address the primary problem that your project aims to resolve.
In this stage you develop the appropriate solution to your challenge. Describe the solution you decided to apply and why you chose it. *
This is a new semester and you are asked to solve a problem. While searching for a suggested solution to this problem, you have faced some difficulties and benefited from others. Explain in detail a challenge you faced and a positive thing you gained*
You have selected a solution for the problem, justifying why it is a good solution giving two reasons.
A good test plan should be written scientifically, it should be written in a way that supports repetition and testing by others. Explain two steps you will follow in designing your test plan.
You are going to present your capstone project in front of evaluators. Explain two evidences by which you can persuade them that the steps done during all stages were authentic (belong to you).
Identifying the problem is the first step in the capstone project you work on. Explain briefly how you can be sure that your identification of the problem is correct.
While searching prior solutions for problems related to your challenge you may get a huge number of results, explain how to minimize this number of results, to get the most suitable solution for your recent challenge. *
Constructing prototype is an important step, because it helps to pinpoint the product. What is the modification you did (or intent) in your design, and why? *
Prototype testing enables you to make sure about the validity of your prototype. Explain your plan to test your prototype.*
Communication is the final and most important step in your project, it needs some skills whether during the preparation of the presentation or the presentation itself. Choose a skill that you have acquired from a studied subject and explain how this skill helps you prepare for the presentation or make your presentation. *
In this semester you will select and solve a problem associated with energy, and the Engineering Design Process (EDP) will guide you. Explain how you will use the first two steps of the EDP to begin your energy project this semester.no more questions *
During the research stage of your project, your team will come across many misconceptions and bad information. Explain how your team can understand and decide that these are misconceptions that should be avoided in your work. How can your team overcome this problem of research? *
Learning Transfer / Connection
In your challenge, you are asked to produce at least 0.04 KW.s in at most 5 minutes, you have studied in (MA.1.07) modeling with functions. Which function you will use to model the relation between the amount of energy produced and the time, then illustrate how" modeling with functions" helps in your work.
Explain how (BI.1.10) can help you understand how light energy interacts with matter to help harvest and store clean energy in designing your project
In (PH.1.09) you have studied the principles behind general properties of fluids, continuity equation, Bernoulli's equation, and others. Explain two different benefits you have got from your study in designing your challenge "Harvest and store clean energy.*
In (CH.1.09), You have studied the physical properties of different elements. Explain four physical properties of the materials you use in constructing your prototype and why these properties are suitable for your project.
According to (ES .1.10) in which you deal with renewable energy sources in Egypt. Explain two benefits you have got and applied in your project.
In CS (1.07), you studied different data types, and variables. Explain how you can utilize variables in recording and analyzing the results of your prototype.
Based on Learning outcome 1.08 in physics, if you are designing a hydro-electric plant converter, analyze the role of only two from the following concepts in enhancing the output energy generated and the efficiency of your system. 1. The pressure change as a function of height. 2. Using manometers. 3. Archimedes Principle.
In (ES.1.10), you studied how to evaluate renewable energy sources in Egypt to reduce dependence on fossil fuels. This helps you identify which renewable resources are most suitable for Egypt's climate, geography, and available natural resources. Outline two points that show how your project prototype fits with Egypt's environmental conditions
In (CH.1.09) you studied physical properties of different types of elements, Explain three properties for the material used in constructing your prototype to achieve the design requirements and two properties for a material you rejected as it doesn’t help to achieve the design requirements.
In BI.1.09, you have studied that each plant consists of many types of tissues adapted to make their functions (e.g. constructing, capturing, storing energy.....etc.). Explain with one example, the similarities between what you have studied and the design of your project which is based on producing, storing, and implementing energy from some school activities.
In your project, you are asked to produce an amount of energy of at least 150 joules in at most 5 min, and in Math (1.07) you have studied modeling with functions (linear or quadratic or .........) between the amount of energy produced and the time. Select a relation and explain the reason for your choice.
In (Ch1.09), you have studied the physical properties of different materials. Explain at least two physical properties of three materials that are used in your project and explain the main reason for selecting them.
In (ES.1.10) you have studied how to determine the maximum energy output, getting benefit from that Explain a method you may use to get maximum energy and show how you will determine the amount of produced energy.
(English) In some cases, you need to find some information on the internet or in textbooks which required a long time to search or read. Explain briefly the properties of scan reading and how it will help you get the required information.
In Mechanics (ME.1.06) you studied newton's 1st law and vector algebra. You will produce renewable and clean energy by converting water’s kinetic energy into electrical energy. Explain how can you use one concept of (Newtown's 1st Law, and vector algebra) to analyze your system, clarifying how can you got benefit out of this analysis in your capstone project?
(Ph.1.08) Your capstone this semester is to convert the Kinetic energy of water into electric energy. Suppose that your team would like to establish a floating system, explain briefly how you can benefit from your studying in physics to allow the large mass of your project to float over the water. *
In (ch1.09) you have studied the properties of materials such as texture, uniformity, strength, and malleability. How could that reflect on the choice of materials you use in designing the generator used in your capstone project? Justify your answer with two practical characteristics of the chosen material. *
"In Physics (PH.1.09) you have studied how to apply principles of fluid dynamics to determine pressure and velocity in a variety of typical fluid systems. Your Capstone Challenge for this semester is about Clean Energy Production from the Kinetic Energy of Water. Explain how the kinetic energy varies between sea and river water, then suggest one method to generate green electric energy from one of them." *
"In Physics (PH.1.08) you have studied how pressure difference between two points of a fluid can be used to analyze the behavior of that fluid using Newton’s Laws. We can extend this concept of differential forces acting on a fluid to non-fluids as well. The activities we do every day with our bodies result in unused or wasted energy. Provide an example and explain how we might capture some of that wasted energy to be used as a potential difference to do some work."
In Earth Science, you have studied the Earth's many energy resources that can be converted to another type of energy. Give an example of one energy resource from the Earth that can be converted to another type of energy. Give an example of a human body energy resource that can be converted to another type of energy. Explain how these examples are the same and how they are different. *