My project is on the regions of the large intestine and how food travels through it. First, food enters the large intestine through the cecum. It then travels through the ascending colon, transcending colon, descending colon, and sigmoid colon where water and electrolytes are absorbed from the food. The food …
https://drive.google.com/file/d/15FI5Gpzl_8dW9xw7jZluaLAFB8Uvjkw5/view?usp=sharing For my STEAM project I made a commercial advertising the lone star tick’s bite as motivation for sticking to a vegan diet. The lone star tick’s saliva contains a sugar (abbreviated alpha gal), that is present in mammalian meats. When it bites you, your body develops antibodies for …
For the art portion of my project, I did a 3D model of the heart in crochet. The two pictures on the top is a normal size heart and the four on the bottom with push pins indicating structures of the heart is an enlarged heart. I also placed tabs …
For the art portion of my project, I did a visual representation of Brugada Syndrome. On the left side of the poster, I drew the 3 different ECGs that could potentially indicate Brugada Syndrome. In the middle of the poster, I have a clay model of the heart. The challenging …
I chose to depict the liver and pancreas in a yin yang symbol to show that the two organs work together to balance the glucose and insulin in the body. Specifically I researched hypoglycemia in non-diabetics and how this rare condition affects these organs. If these organs don’t work in …
For my STEAM project, I researched which endurence sport had the greatest maximal oxygen uptake, or VO₂ Max value, and the factors that affect these measurements. For the accompaning art piece, I drew the heart in lungs, with the viens and arties in gold to demonstrate the interconnectedness of the …
For the art part of this project I created a GIF of blood draining out of a hand to illustrate what happens during Raynaud’s phenomenon. I first used some two by fours to make a stand to hold my phone up in the same place to take the pictures. I …
This is a comic that outlines four common disorders that can result in a pregnancy related death. The comic also outlines that maternal mortality rates have a high racial disparity, and shows some of the factors that cause this disparity.
This is a mold of my pregnant belly, around 8.5/9 months along with my fourth. It is probably the largest my belly has ever grown with my babies, so I got to thinking that it would be perfect to tie this into the STEAM project. Our bodies are amazing, but …