During the stage of identifying a problem, you discover that one of your teammates has misunderstood an issue. This teammate is known for being stubborn. Explain two effective methods you would follow to convince them and resolve the misunderstanding.
After completing your first semester project, a team member may have faced a situation where he did not fully understand his assigned role but pretended that he did until the project was finished.
Explain three disadvantages of this case and give two pieces of advice you would offer him/her for working on this semester’s project.
Explain how collaborating with your team helped you select the design requirements of your prototype, and how this experience improved your skills, understanding, and readiness for the next stage of the project.
Every project has a "signature" a specific choice that makes it uniquely yours. Illustrate in details the part of your project that no group else in your school could have created and came by brain storming of your team.
This is the start of a new semester in your STEM journey, describe in detail two different methods of studying one you have decided to modify and the other you should keep as it is, with explaining the reasons for that.
The nature of work at STEM schools depends on co-operation but it's sometimes normal to find arguments among the team. Explain two methods you can follow one as a team leader and the other as a member to overcome this conflict.*
You and your team are evaluating your achievements at this project stage. Describe two items for improvement to ensure you finish your project on time and how you could implement them.
This is your fourth project, and it's supposed you have worked in different positions. Explain three positive behaviors you need to be successful according to your current position.
If you are the team leader, explain the criteria you use to distribute the roles among teammates during the exhibition day. *
Two of your classmates are nominated to assume the role of team leader, consider three criteria you follow to select the leader. Explain why you chose these three criteria. *
Clear roles and responsibilities, mutual respect and other soft skills are important to have a great team. If any of these are missing, it will be hard for a team to succeed. Choose two of the soft skills explaining their effects on teamwork.
Being a student at a STEM makes you familiar with working in a team. Explain, through two points (one is negative and the other is positive), how the team meetings reflect on your performance in the current capstone.
SWOT is a strategic planning and management technique used to help a person identify internal strengths, weaknesses, external opportunities and threats (challenges). You are asked to select two items of the previous ones and explain one point for each one to evaluate your personal performance. *
During your last capstone, what was the biggest challenge you faced with your teammates (without giving names of people)? Explain how you can overcome this challenge this semester with your new team. *
You are now a member of a new team this semester. Your team leader asks you as a member of the new team to express what you have acquired from the previous teammates. Choose two skills you have acquired from your previous teamwork experience and write a reflection on each of them in a separate paragraph. *
You are the leader of your group this semester. Discuss a way to overcome arguments among team members that may result in falling behind schedule. *
As a team leader, after testing your prototype and getting the results, you find inconsistencies in results that are more than acceptable. How can you convince your team to make changes and start from the beginning of the testing again? *
The day before the exhibition, while testing your prototype, it happens that you face a new problem that disturbs your plans for the exhibition. For example, testing reveals unpredicted data or your prototype breaks. Note that you have already printed your poster. If you are in this situation, how can you overcome this problem?*
EDP
To identify the problem, you need to clarify many keywords. Explain three methods you follow in choosing the keywords that help you identify your problem and why you will use them.
Before designing a smart farm or aquaponics system, what existing technologies and case studies should you research? How will studying them help you improve efficiency, sustainability, and cost-effectiveness? Green
Design requirements are considered the cornerstone of the prototyping process. Discuss how these requirements guide the design phase.
Based on the sensor’s results, a feedback loop implemented to improve the performance. Mention two results obtained, then explain the actuators actions for each result.
During your work in the capstone, every one in the team has a role which changed every two weeks , explain two advantages and another two disadvantages for that (The disadvantages must be totally different from the advantages not just negative them).
Briefly describe the solution you decided to do, and then explain the reason for choosing it, then demonstrate the methods your team will follow to solve the problem.*
During the construction of your prototype, the team selected the required materials. Discuss two difficulties the team faced regarding this issue and explain how each one was overcome.
According to the EDP process you are supposed to be in the stage of constructing your prototype after searching between different prototypes. Explain two advantages about the prototype you have chosen and two expected difficulties you expect to face during construction and their solutions
While constructing and testing your prototype, you may encounter negative issues related to the prototype work. Explain one issue, why it occurred, and how it contributed to the improvement or redesign of your prototype. *
In your project, you will create smart buildings that are also eco-friendly and address one or more of Egypt's Grand challenge(s). Explain how your project is important to address at least two grand challenges. *
each project has many design requirements, and you and your team choose specific one (s). Explain two design requirements you didn't choose and give a reason for not choosing each of them.
Now you are selecting your prototype that achieves your design requirements, describe in detail the prototype you have decided to construct, and explain how it will meet the design requirements you have chosen. *
Your capstone challenge this semester focuses on replacing a traditional manufacturing process of any product that needs improvement using a feedback control mechanism. Explain how the problem you chose to solve is a good candidate for improvement by a feedback control mechanism. *
This semester, you are asked to work on a solution for a new challenge, but you don’t act as a researcher for your team. Write to your team researcher a note including three points that help him find the prior solutions that address relevant problems. *
The prototype design is a vital step in the Capstone. What is the most important factor affecting your choice of prototype design? Explain how your prototype design helps you overcome the problem you are solving for your Capstone project. *
Test and redesign require you to listen to your teammates after testing and include their feedback in your team's final design. Provide two examples of feedback your teammates provided for your design after initial testing and explain how these minor changes could make your solution better. *
Now you know the Egypt Grand Challenges well, and you have almost finished your 4th Capstone project at your STEM School. Mention one Grand Challenge would you like to work on for your Final Capstone Project. Which step of the EDP you are most looking forward to conducting on this project, and why this step? *
Learning Transfer / Connection
In light of what you have studied in CH. 2.08, you need to measure the degree of salinity of the electrolytic solution in your challenge; you need first to calibrate the used sensor. Explain the steps you will follow in your chemistry lab to accurately calibrate the TDS sensor showing the importance of calibration.
you have studied the structure and the function of the human reproductive system. Choose one structure that its function will be affected by feedback, and explain how this study can help you design the feedback system in your Capstone Project.*
You studied in (ES.2.09) that the evolution of Earth’s spheres shows how major Earth processes are connected and depend on one another. You also worked on the smart farm project. Both topics require understanding systems thinking (how different parts connect, influence each other, and respond to changes).
Explain two points that show how both topics involve connected parts that affect one another. Then explain one way they are different.
In what ways can analyzing limits and continuity of functions help engineers predict environmental changes and prevent sudden fluctuations (change) in a smart aquaponics or greenhouse system?
Based on your study (LO 2.07) of different view groups' tools, explain how you could utilize this knowledge to design an interface for monitoring environmental changes in aquaculture, agriculture, or hybrid aquaponics.
In CH.2.09, you studied electrochemical cells. Explain two points showing how the knowledge you gained about electrolytic solutions helped you design or improve the solution used in your prototype (aquaculture or agricultural environment).
How can the concept of exponential growth be applied to monitor bacterial growth and fish population growth in a smart aquaculture system in order to prevent dangerous rapid growth?
Explain how can the principles of energy storage in inductive elements of a DC circuit be applied to enhance the design of feedback control systems in aquaculture or greenhouse agriculture, particularly in managing time-dependent responses to variable environmental conditions?
In (CH.2.08) , You studied the concept of Redox process, how can you follow the efficiency of the treatment process in terms of electron transfer.
In Earth Science (ES.2.09) you studied the evolution of Earth's spheres which is a story of mega-scale systems that depend on one another, Explain two similar sequences in the Earth's primitive crust evaluation system and the stages in your project, and one difference between the two systems.
Concerning (PH.2.08) in which you have learned the electromagnetic induction phenomenon. Explain two applications that may be used in your sustainable water purification system.
How does (BI.2.09), in which you study hormonal feedback to prepare the uterus to receive the fetus, help you understand and create the feedback system in your project to recycle water using natural resources?
In CS (02.05), you learned about the structure of mobile applications, which consists of multiple layers. Explain which of these layers and their tools can be used to collect, store, and analyze reading data for monitoring water quality parameters and the procedures followed to achieve this.
During this semester's challenge, you are required to treat wastewater to achieve a salinity level of less than 500 ppm. In (MA 2.06), you studied the concept of limits. Explain how you will apply this concept in your project?
You studied electrochemical cells in (CH. 2.09). During the wastewater treatment process in your prototype, you may encounter various ionic impurities, including heavy metals. Explain in details four conditions that are necessary for constructing an electrolytic cell to remove these heavy metals from your wastewater sample.
As you studied in (ES.2.10), the Earth’s spheres underwent several stages, cycles, and feedback to reach their current compositions. Compare and explain your wastewater sample's and earth spheres' stages, cycles, and feedback mechanisms to obtain their optimum conditions
BI.2.14 Human activities and nature can alter water quality in ecosystems. Describe two strategies to enhance water quality in your prototype and explain your choices.
In (CS.2.09), you studied the concept of loops, and while receiving readings from sensors, you got an unexpected reading that caused the project to stop. Explain how you overcame this problem. *
In (ES. L. O. 2.09), you studied that the Earth at the beginning of its history was a molten hot mass and through many processes, it got cooled to be suitable for life. Explain in detail two suggested methods of cooling your building to fulfill the design requirements of your capstone. *
Concerning (Ph2.08) in which you deal with the phenomenon of electromagnetic induction, explain, in detail, how you can benefit from it in designing and implementing an eco-friendly smart system.
In(cs.02.09) you have studied the design of a mobile application structure ( user interface, database, api , programming languages) explain in detail one similarity and one difference between the mobile app structure and the smart home structure
You have studied the structure of the human female productive system and the uterus as a smart home of the fetus, and the effect of hormones to control it. Explain two similarities between what you have studied in this learning outcome and your project.
You have studied MA 2.07 in your capstone challenge, you are asked to build a model for a smart system with an inner volume ranging between 0.1 m3 and 0.2 m3, depending on the dimensions of the model you have chosen. Mention what your model looks like to achieve your design requirements and explain the reason for choosing this shape.*
In (cs.2.05) you have studied the concept of loops (feedback) in programming languages, where a certain action is repeated as long as a certain condition is true. Mention one type of loops and explain how you benefited from your project.
Concerning to (Ph2.09 to 2.12) in which you have learned about the production of energy, its storage, transformation and transition. Explain two different means; one for the storage and the other for the transformation that may be used in your design and implement an eco-friendly smart system. *
In CH.2.11, you have studied the greenhouse effect, which is considered as a challenge you face in your smart building design. Explain two methods you used to overcome this problem in accordance with the design requirements. *
(English - listening and persuasion) Processing minerals can cause a lot of environmental effects. You want to advise a friend who is a factory owner to make use of the byproducts of this process instead of polluting with them. Write a short persuasive paragraph on this. Include your reasons to convince him to make this change. *
(Chemistry) Your teammate suggests that the Selectrolysis of aluminum compounds yields CO2 as a byproduct and that it can be used to produce energy by using it as a catalyst for turning water into methane. Do you agree that CO2 is a byproduct of this electrolysis? Why or why not? *
"In this semester, you are asked to use green energy, and your team decides to use solar panels, wirelessly transferring electric energy obtained from the roof to the needed location using induction. Mention two-coil design factors for transferring more energy between the inductive coils and explain why they would increase the amount of energy transferred between the coils." *
In English (writing 2.3.1) you learned how to use technology-based tools in writing and editing. Write a short paragraph to a new STEM student about using the available technology tools to help them do successful research. *
Any industrial process can be modeled by a math function. Describe the function that you might use to describe part of your project and mention the benefit that you can get out of using this function. Then explain what the derivative of this same function means for your project. You do not have to write the math function or its derivative. Just describe them. *
In organic chemistry, you study types of hydrocarbons ( aromatic, Aliphatic, solid, liquid or gas), many types of them can be used as a fuel, but not all kinds are suitable for any kind of machine, mention two specifications you will look for to choose a fuel suitable for the engine of your high-efficiency engine? and explain one of them
You have studied in (ES.2.11) the evolution and the changes that took place in life on earth over past times. Explain one example to indicate how studying evolution can inspire your way of thinking about feedback that can help modify your capstone project. *
In your capstone challenge, you are focused on replacing a traditional manufacturing process of any product that needs improvement. Explain the concept of power you studied in Mechanics (ME.2.05) and use this concept to explain how you could maximize the amount of energy generated for the process you are improving. *
In Earth Science (ES.2.10) you are studying the evolution of the atmosphere and hydrosphere over millions of years, and that feedback mechanisms are responsible for the livable temperatures we have today. Describe the similarity between this feedback example and the feedback system you are using in your project. *
In your capstone project this semester, you had been asked to use the feedback. Suppose you are doing a project on textile production, and you need a feedback system that tells you whether you have an ionic or polar compound dissolved in the wastewater. How could we use electrolysis to create feedback about the presence of the ionic or polar compound in your output water? *