How to inspire your students?

It is said that it takes a whole village to raise kids...
The statement reflects the power a teacher has during the grooming of the kids in the classroom and beyond.

Some teachers took the parabolic flight, defying gravity and doing the experiments designed by their kids.

I think in the wake interest in increasing the number of students in STEM, one can devise NSF projects for such fun and inspiring projects.

How do you inspire your students?

What is Information?

What is Information?
Is it the data that you collect? Is it the statement that your mother makes when advising not to go outside in the dark? Or is it what you think on what you know about what you are thinking?
Defining information is not so trivial.
Try it, feel free to share on comments.

Seaswarm: Autonomous Oil absorbing robot

When the Gulf oil spill occured, attempts were made to clean it manually. It required deploying thousands of workers and still only few percentage of the spill was collected.  The spill had very bad effects on the environment. Just google gulf oil spill in pictures.
Now researchers at MIT have come up with an autonomous robot to collect the oil from such spill. The video below shows how swarm of networked robots can be used to collect such spill.
The idea is nice because it does not need human intervention. Once left on the spill site, it can work spontaneously.



http://web.mit.edu/press/2010/seaswarm.html

Some Deep Sea Videos

I am left wordless...

Nepali Physics Students Departing from Nepal: Fall 2010.

This year about 25+-5 Nepali physics students departed aboard to pursue the PhD degree. There are more than 200 physicists aboard now!.
The name and university are listed below:

• Binod Manandhar- University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
• Santosh Sharma- University of Memphis, Tennessee
• Shreedhar Pant- Texas Christian University
• Navaraj subedi- Mississippi State University
• Kamal Chapagain- Western Illinois University
• Dipendra Adhikari- University of New Mexico, NM
• Tej Nath Lamichhane- University of Texas, Arlington
• Keshav Sapkota- Catholic University of America
• Bijaya Thapa - University of Utah
• Binod Rai- University of Memphis, Tennesse
• Kamal Dhakal- University of Rhode Island
• Disoj Neupane- New Mexico State University, NM
• Takat Rawal- University of Central Florida
• Raj Dahal- University of Memphis, Tennesse
• Keshav Shrestha- University of Houston, TX
• Nabaraj Sapkota- University of Utah
• Tara Acharya- University of Utah

Please let us know if you are missing on the list.

Thanks to Sanjiv G.

Previous:
http://www.nabinkm.com/2009/08/physics-students-departing-from-nepal.html
http://www.nabinkm.com/2008/08/physics-students-departing-from-nepal.html