SEA Summer High School Programs,2022
Science at SEA 525 APP
Science at SEA is a four-week program for rising high-school juniors and seniors, as well as recent high school graduates, which focuses on the coastal and offshore marine environment around Cape Cod, Massachusetts The program includes a shore component on the SEA campus in Woods Hole and a sea component aboard the sailing School Vessel (SSV) Corwith Cramer.
July21--August13 Expense: $4000
SEA Quest
SEA Quest is a two-week program that welcomes high school students and recent graduates. Participants will gain hands-on experience conducting field research, sailing a tall ship, and understanding of the complexities of creating and managing marine reserves. They return home with a broader sense of the ocean's importance to our planet and the need to preserve this precious resource for future generations. Life here is fast- paced. No prior sailing experience is necessary. Strong desire to learn is required!
July11-July 22 Expense: $3,200
SEA Cape
This three-week summer program at SEA offers current high school students the opportunity to study the marine environment from a variety of perspectives: scientific, historical, and literary. Participants live and study at our campus in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
June 27-July 14 Expense: $3,800
SEA Expedition D
This two-week summer program for high school students, including graduating seniors, is centered on learning by doing. SEA Expedition is a multidisciplinary experience that welcomes students to participate in every aspect of a challenging offshore sailing and sea is fast-paced and tough.
July 5 - July 17
Desperate to help his 96-year-old mother to speak her mother tongue again, Keith McDermott made an appeal on social media and was met with a flood of kind responses. The old lady, Ray, was moved to tears after talking on the phone with one of the enthusiastic respondents in Welsh.
Ray moved to America after meeting her husband when she was only 18, hence waving goodbye to her life in Wales. She continued to speak Welsh with her mum- keeping a little bit of home. But she lost her beloved mum four decades ago and hadn't spoken Welsh since.
Despite suffering from short-term memory loss and sometimes not remembering what she has done recently, Ray's childhood memories in Wales remain crystal clear. "She wants to return but I know, given her age, such long-distance travel is out of the question." said Keith, "Once she mentioned ‘I wish I could speak Welsh again but l suppose I never will' It was then that I thought I should make her-wish happen."
So Keith, 70, posted on social media in the New York Welsh area asking for any Welsh speakers that could speak Welsh with his mum. And he was touched, as-well as-a little shocked, to receive over 30 responses within half an hour. Keith thanked everyone and eventually asked Melisa to give his mum a phone call. Speaking with Melisa, her (Ray's) Welsh was a little rusty. A few more Welsh conversations and I think she'd be fluent again," added Keith.
"When you have a parent in their nineties, you-will find you two have something in common: you're both old, So I am very sympathetic to my mother? feelings of loneliness and isolation (孤立). I'm feeling it myself." Keith hopes to set up more Welsh phone conversations for his-mum and Melisa has promised to send Ray some short stories in Welsh to remind her of her life in Wales.
Throughout history, many species of animals have been threatened with extinction When Europeans first arrived in North America, more than 60 million buffalo (水牛) lived on the continent. Yet hunting the buffalo was so popular during the 19th century that by 1900 the animal's population had fallen to about 400 before the government stepped in to protect the species. In some countries today. the elephant faces a similar challenge, as illegal hunters kill the animals for the ivory in their tusks.
Yet not all animals with commercial value face this threat(威胁).The cow, for example, is a valuable source of food, but no one worries that the cow will soon be extinct. Why does the commercial value of ivory threaten the elephant. while the commercial value of beef protects the cow?
The reason is that elephants are a common resource. While cows are private goods Elephants wander freely without any owners. The hunter has a strong motivation to kill as many elephants as he can find. Because illegal hunters are numerous, each has only a slight motivation to preserve the elephant population. By contrast, cattle live on farms that are privately owned. Each farmer makes great effort to maintain the cattle population on his farm because he harvests the benefit of these efforts
Governments have tried to solve the elephant's problem in two ways. Some countries, such as Kenya and Uganda, have made it illegal to kill elephants and sell their ivory. Yet these laws have been hard to put into effect, and elephant populations have continued to dwindle. By contrast, other countries, such as Malawi and Namibia, have made elephants private goods and allowed people to kill elephants, but only those on their own property.
With private ownership and the profit motive now on its side, the African elephant might someday be as safe from extinction as the cow. The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle pointed out the problem with common resources: "What is common to many is taken least care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than for what they possess in common with others."
If someone created a flying machine capable of tracking you down by listening for your voice, you might be terrified. But what if you were trapped in ruins after a natural disaster and first responders couldn't locate you? Maybe then a human-seeking drone(无人机)wouldn't be such a terrible idea. That concept is the focus for engineers at Germanys Fraunhofer FKIE Institute, who've built a drone to find people by detecting(探测)human screams.
"The human-seeking drone would be ideal for post-disaster situations, such as earthquakes, hurricanes and wildfires," said Macarena Varela, one of the lead engineers "They could hover over an area that rescue crews have difficulty getting to and locate exactly where people may be trapped."
Locating people by sound presents its share of challenges. An auditory(听觉的) system would need to distinguish human cries from sounds that often happen in nature such as animal calls and wind. It might also need to recognize patterns associated with kicking, clapping or other ways people try to get the attention of rescue teams.
Engineers took those situations into account when building out their concept drone. They recorded themselves screaming, tapping and creating other noises that might be a sign of people in trouble. Then, they analyzed each sound frequency to find common signatures and used those to train artificial intelligence software. They also worked to remove the noise created by the drone and other environmental sounds.
Once the software part was complete, the team placed tiny digital microphones under the drone and used signal processing techniques that enabled them to track where human noises are coming from. The microphones also enhanced the volume and clarity of the speech. So far, they have conducted successful open field experiments, finding that the drone can estimate a victim's location within a few seconds of picking up sound.
Next, they would like to add a higher frequency microphone to a drone to acquire more audio sound signals. The idea is to pick up noises from hundreds of meters away. Varela said. In the real world, victim's location data might one day be sent wirelessly to emergency crews carrying a tablet.
Technology is here to stay. . However, they are often unsure on how to help children use technology responsibly and keep a balance between online and offline time. Here are some tips.
Have a device contract
Having a device usage contract allows parents and children to work through what responsible technology usage looks like in your family and ensure that everyone is aware. . Kids are more likely to make sense of the reasons you have for restriction.
Although this tip seems like common sense, it is often difficult due to the demand of work and the expectation of being constantly connected. By ensuring you build offline time into your own day and communicate that with your children, they will see the value and benefits. Whether you are reading a book or just taking a walk, letting your children be aware of your offline actions will encourage them to do the same!
Encourage non-tech activities
One great way to keep kids off their screens is to ensure that they have other activities to fill their time. . These activities are also great ways to help children to develop their social skills and confidence.
Tech-free family time
Once a week, pencil-in a "tech-free family time" in your schedule. It can be a meal or trip. To help increase the success of outings, try designing special activities, i. e., going to the beach to build a sand castle that looks the same as a photo you have found online.
A. Model good technology use
B. Communicate with children
C.A little extra planning goes a long way
D. The contract is helpful to the settlement of conflicts
E. Parents are seeing more technology in their homes and jobs
F. Also, drafting the contract together promotes understanding
G. This can come in a variety of forms: soccer, fencing and more
In the sport of track and field, athletes compete not only with one another but against themselves to achieve a new personal best. Aiming to 1 his own record, Cerveny pushed himself hard. However, his legs cramped(抽筋)and 2 him with only 200 meters to go. Determined to 3, Cerveny rose from the ground and continued on, only to fall again after another 50 meters.
4, his coach asked Cerveny if he wanted to stop. He didn't. With great 5 Cerveny pulled himself up and with a(n) 6 pace, moved forward for one final push. 7, it wasn't enough. 100 meters from the finish line, his legs simply 8 .
Before his coach could 9 him, another runner- Brandon-was at his side to help. His first attempt to get Cerveny up failed, but he 10 to quit too. With a second pull, Cerveny was 11. At a measured jog, the two completed the final 100 meters of the course, with Cerveny holding Brandon for 12 Brandon even made sure Cerveny crossed the finish line first, securing his 13 a faster time
In today's 14 world in which the emphasis in athletics is so often put on breaking records, it was 15 to see that for an athlete like Brandon, the value of true sportsmanship still had legs.
When was the last time you visited a museum in which almost every collection could be touched? American lawyer Mitch Dudek built a private museum visitors can have direct contact with all the exhibits on display in the ancient city of Suzhou
The museum (name)Six Arts because it is about the six senses and stimulating all of your senses. You can touch things. You can smell things. It's different from other museums. Founded in 2018, the four-storey museum now (house)more than 40,000 Chinese antiques dating back to the Ming and Qing dynasties(1368-1911)，with another 60,000 items (store)in warehouses(仓库).
Having never seen or used such items in his own country, Dudek is filled strong admiration of the delicate designs and complicated carvings of these old items. "I think they are just beautiful, and I should collect them," said Dudek, (add) that these items may be ignored once (random) packed in the warehouses, but they could shine again through restoration.
"As more and more Chinese understand and offer me some of their old (belong),collections in the museum have become more varied and abundant. Now I plan to invite scholars and craftsmen to discover more (culture)and historical stories behind them," he said.
"The collections not only help revisit old times but also present sense of beauty," said Xu Yun, a visitor from Shanghai.
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On a Sunday afternoon, Kiana French was having fun fishing with her father and younger sister, not knowing the next minute, they would struggle not to sink in the freezing water. Their 12-foot boat was taking in water little by little, and the wind was picking up. Her father, Gary French, hurried to operate the engine, while Kiana,16, was in the middle with Cierrah, her sister, frightened but still able to keep calm.
Kiana asked Cierrah to take off one of her cowboy boots, with which she got some of the water out. Hard as she tried, that little effort would not help stop the boat sinking. Moments later, the unthinkable happened. The boat was full of water and then it flipped over. Kiana and her sister were dumped in the water. Their father, who had had a surgery six months ago, managed not to be thrown into the water but seemed to have great pain in the chest due to the sudden change.
Kiana quickly put on her life jacket and saw Cierrah's and her father's life jackets floating away. She reacted quickly to get them back and held her sister onto the boat. They were so far out in the middle of the lake that they could not see the shore clearly. What's worse.it was getting harder to stay above the waves. Their father swam over and hugged his two girls. Cierrah crying silently. Kiana heard her beloved sister murmur, "I can't feel my feet."
Kiana knew the only thing to do was to get to shore herself and find help. She looked up at her father, exchanging a concerned glance, turned round and swam as hard as she could towards the shore
Fighting against the strong currents and cold wind, she screamed for help at the top of her lungs every three minutes or so. A strong wind blew, and she looked back only to see her sister's and father's heads bobbing(浮动)in the water. She burst into tears. thinking her sister and dad were dead, because she was taking too long-
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With desperate tears, she suddenly spotted a boat with a figure walking on it
Once rescued, they were rushed to shore, where a concerned group waited for their arrival.
