SEA Summer High School Programs 2023
Science at SEA
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.
July 21—August 13
Expense: $4,000
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 at all ships, and understanding of the complexities of creating and managing marine reserves. They will 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. A strong desire to learn is required!
July 11—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
This two-week summer program for high school students, including graduating seniors, is centered on learning by doing. SEA Expedition is a multidisciplinary（多门学科的） experience that welcomes students to participate in every aspect of a challenging offshore sailing and oceanographic expedition, and occurs entirely aboard the SSV Corwith Cramer. Life at sea is fast-paced and tough.
July 5—July 17
Expense: $3,500
I've spent two decades observing what makes people lucky and trying to help people increase their luck. I teach entrepreneurship （创业学）. I know many new enterprises fail, and entrepreneurs need luck.
I spend much time encouraging my students to get out of their comfort zone and take risks. I do this myself all the time. About a dozen years ago, during a flight, I decided to take a little risk. I started a conversation with the man sitting next to me. I introduced myself, and I learned that he was a publisher. I learned all about the future of the publishing industry and we exchanged contact information. So about three quarters through the flight, I decided to take another risk. I showed him a book plan I was doing in my class. Although he was very polite, he said it wasn't right for them.
A couple of months later, I told him I was doing a project on changing the book and invited him to come to my class. So he gladly came to my class. We had a great experience. A few months later, I wrote to him again, sending a bunch of video clips (片段)from another project my students had made. He was so impressed by one of them that he thought there was a book in it. I was a little bit hurt, but it was all right. So I invited him and his colleagues to have lunch together. Later, one of his editors asked me if I had considered writing a book. And I pulled out the exact same plan I had showed his boss a year earlier. Within two years, my book had sold over a million copies.
For a lot of people, age-related cognitive decline (认知衰退) follows "gradually, and then suddenly". At first, the loss of mental sharpness is difficult to detect. But one day you may find that your memory and other mental muscles have grown noticeably, frustratingly weak.
Research has found cognitive decline may begin as early as your 20s. "Typically, a person peaks out around their 30th birthday," says Michael Merzenich, a former director of the Keck Center for Integrative Neuroscience at the University of California. Each decade thereafter, the average person's mental sharpness steadily drops off.
The brain's toolset usually grows rusty (生锈的) as a result of disuse—not because of unpreventable degradation but due to taking your brain offline. "Offline" refers to autopilot activities. "This means doing the same things—relying on the abilities or skills you acquired at a younger age," he explains. During the first few decades of your life, this sort of cognitive coasting isn't really possible. But once you've settled into adulthood—into a set of routines—your day-to-day life may not ask much of your brain's executive (决策的) functions, which are the high-level operations helping you solve complex problems. The older you get, the more difficult for you to change your habitual routine.
Fortunately, constantly engaging your brain's learning machinery with skills or activities that are new makes it possible to prevent age-related cognitive decline.
More of Merzenich's research has shown that "targeted" brain training can help people strengthen their memories, concentration, and high-level processing capabilities. Even among people with mild brain injury, cognitive damage is often reversible with proper training. He recommends adopting a new hobby—something that forces you to learn a new set of skills. "The goal is to expand your understanding in a new way," he says.
Like your body, your brain requires exercise to stay healthy. Challenging it with new hobbies and learning opportunities may be the best way to maintain its fitness.
By the year 2050, Earth's population is expected to reach nearly 10 billion people. With this growth comes a surprising demand for food resources. To find an effective way to deal with the global food safety crisis, Enter X, Alphabet Inc launched Project Mineral, which focuses on "computational agriculture", a term to describe new technologies that will further increase understanding about the plant world.
Can a machine be taught to understand the plant world? After years of work, Project Mineral leader Elliot Grant and his team's latest prototype (原型) -a plant-scanning robot-will turn up at the Smithsonian's "Futures" exhibition later this year. The four-wheeled plant robot, about as tall as a shipping container and as wide as a car, uses different cameras and other technologies to monitor and find possible problems with plants.
As it rolls through the farmland, it can identify weeds, and measure the ripeness of fruits. The Mineral robot can become taller to take pictures of wheat plants, or widen to scan a broad bed of crops. What's more, when the robot meets with different situations out in the field, it can accurately identify specific crops, traits or diseases.
Mineral has partnered with a farmer in the Philippines who is helping the team study diseases in bananas. Images of diseased bananas will be used to teach the robot how to detect diseases.
The robot also takes pictures of flowers and then employs the machine learning model to count a plant's flowering speed, which is crucial to understand how a plant responds to its environment and predict the yields. Besides, the robot can measure all kinds of leaf sizes and detect greenness.
Though the robot has come a long way from its origin, it's still a prototype. Mineral stresses that they're constantly improving and working closely with experts in the agricultural field to understand plants further.
How to be more resilient (适应力强的)?
We've all heard of IQ, and terms like EQ, which relates to our emotional intelligence, are commonly used. But have you heard of AQ? It measures our ability to resist the shock when life throws us curveballs — how likely we are to crumble(崩溃) or thrive in these situations. .
Adverse situations can take us by surprise. In the workplace, it could be in the form of a layoff, the company we work for going under or being restructured, or even missing out on a promotion. Failed friendships and relationships, hard financial times and even loss of beloved ones are things that can occur outside of work. So how can we learn to be more resilient?
Luckily, there are some steps you can take to help you be more resilient and adaptable in the face of adversity, according to Dr Shahram Heshmat, professor of health economics.
Resilient people often have an aim and are able to concentrate more on a desired outcome, seeing negative situations as a bump in the road on the way to achieving their goal. Learning to relax and regulate your emotions is another key step — one way to help is to practise breathing exercises. Likewise, dwelling on things and letting them get to you can cause you to be stressed. So see difficulties more as an opportunity to learn and grow emotionally. Being able to talk with someone about the challenges we face can help.
A. First, try and find a meaningful goal.
B. Things that happen in life are not always pleasant.
C. Finally, make sure you have a good social support network.
D. However, taking a few steps to be more resilient can make them a little easier to get through.
E. AQ stands for Adversity Quotient and measures our ability to deal with the ups and downs of life.
F. Being able to handle these rough times is important not only in our personal lives but in our professional lives too.
G. It can be used to predict our attitudes, perseverance, longevity, and the ways we learn from changes in the environment.
When I became an amputee (截肢患者) at age 29, I was forced to rethink the idea of physical perfection. My life became different, as I changed from an acceptably attractive woman to an object of pity and 1 .
Too busy2physical pain and obvious mobility limitation, I was not aware of this change at first. I was determined to 3, feeling good about the progress I had made, as I moved forward.
4, as I made my first excursion（远足）outside the hospital, society had already assigned me a new status. Happy to be free of my restriction in the hospital, I rolled through the shopping mall – a5 survivor, feeling like a war hero. Unfortunately, I had a rude6 as I discovered that others did not view me in the way I had come to view myself.
All eyes were upon me, yet no one dared to make eye contact. Their efforts to7my eyes forced me to realize they saw only my missing legs. Mothers 8held their children closer as I passed. Elderly women patted me on the head saying, "God Bless You!" with 9in their eyes.
While I sat thinking about what had happened, a small girl came up to me. She stared with unembarrassed 10 at the empty pants. Finding nothing there, she looked up at me with a puzzled look, she innocently asked, "Lady, where did your legs go?"
I explained that my legs had been sick. Since my legs hadn't been strong and healthy like hers, the doctors had to11them. Leaning her head upwards, she asked, "Did they go to ‘Leg Heaven'?"
That incident made me think about how 12children and adults react to the unknown. To a child, an odd appearance is an interesting curiosity and a 13learning experience while adults often view the same thing with fear and horror. I began to realize that, I, too had been14of the same inappropriate reactions before I knew what life was like for an amputee.
To fulfill the wholeness of my mind and spirit, I now smile warmly, make eye contact, and speak in a confident manner. By using a15approach, I attempt to enlighten society about the fact that having a not-so-perfect body doesn't mean having a poor quality of life.
With a history of more than 6,000 years, Chinese painting, originally(pursue) by wealthy people, developed around 221 BC during the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Then, it became popular around 581 AD as more and more people began to show (appreciate) of its beauty.
Basic tools and materials for Chinese painting involve writing brushes, ink and paper. The Chinese painting brush is mostly made of goat, wolf or fox hair, is suitable for producing brushes that are both soft and stringy (有韧性).
The ink stick is produced with a mixture of pine soot (松烟) and animal glue. It's used in combination with an ink stone. The painter wets the ink stone and then grinds (研磨) the ink stick on the stone, (make) the ink run so that it can be used for painting.
Many Chinese ancient artworks (create) on silk. However, silk wasexpensive that only very important paintings would use it. By the first century, when the early form of paper was invented, it had become a lot(cheap) to paint. Traditional Chinese painting enjoys worldwide fameits original style, distinctive features and special techniques. It emphasizes harmony between man and nature. When looking at a Chinese painting, you may not (initial) realize its complex concept. In fact, much remains (learn) about traditional Chinese painting and its elements. Through appreciating Chinese painting, you will have a better understanding of traditional Chinese culture and Chinese people.
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It was a sunny summer morning, the breeze blowing gently. As planned, Jackson took a trip into the remote wilds near Olom Village, in the Sakha Republic, Russia. His four-year-old daughter, Karina, found him leaving and wanted to follow him to give her dad a surprise. She slipped out of the house, with nobody realizing it, even Jackson.
Unfortunately, she walked too slowly on her way and soon she was lost in the vast, dangerous Siberian wilderness. Luckily for her, her dog, Naida, followed Karina just as the girl followed her father. The two suddenly found themselves walking with no one in sight, drifting away from their home as the hours went by.
Night fell. Karina's father returned home, and it didn't take long after that for the whole family to realize what had happened. They couldn't find Karina anywhere. They turned to the police for help immediately. And they took action at once in search of the lost girl.
A whole week had gone by and there was no progress of the rescue in sight. The whole family was stuck in desperation, but Karina's mum never lost hope. "Many stopped believing that she was alive, but as a mother I felt that she would be found soon."
In fact, Karina did survive. Although Siberia is an extremely dangerous place even for otherwise fit adults due to its wildlife and climate, she made it. She survived by eating wild fruits and drinking water from nearby rivers, and she faced the freezing nighttime temperatures by cozying up in a bed of grass. Naida did its best too, scaring away the wild animals and keeping each other warm by sleeping close together at night.
After nine days struggling to survive, scared and alone, Karina could only be grateful about one thing: her good friend was by her side. Naida gave its strength, and actively helped the four-year-old to stay alive for that long.
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This morning, Naida suddenly walked away and headed back into town, ignoring Karina's hopeless cry and leaving her completely alone.
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Naida did what it could to lead the rescue team to where Karina was
