Bioengineering

Bioengineering students design, build, analyze, observe, and manipulate their way through a variety of labs over their four years at Lyman High School. They are required to keep lab notebooks, in keeping with strict scientific practices, that may contain graphs, drawings, photographs, as well as data and observations. Students routinely present their research and findings amongst their peers.

Lyman High School is the engineering magnet school for our county and sees an influx of hundreds of young, aspiring engineers. Some students, however, are hesitant to apply to one of our engineering strands because of a lack of visual information. Many of the laboratory activities and projects we design and create would be better exhibited through digital media. Photographs would be helpful, but video showing the moving parts and students like them talking to them about their projects would be beneficial in reaching out to students who might not otherwise take the harder sciences. Even if students do not necessarily go into our engineering magnet, this project would encourage and excite students to take higher level sciences and maths in preparation for college and careers where they might apply some of the things they saw on video.

Current bioengineering students would be required to film their laboratory activities throughout the school year with the intention of editing their digital lab notebook into a commercial to show eight grade students at the local middle schools. In addition to the benefit of encouraging math and science education in middle school students, bioengineering students would have the added privilege showing increased professionalism throughout their labs and design projects.