This piece is about prions and their effects. Prions are pathogens, that are formed from proteins, that are misfolded. Prions can be found from human or animal and it causes neurogenerative diseases. This project is more specifically about bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and its effect to cow. You can see, that cow …
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-qu-jRmXPAhc3_eHSVrAayrrepeTJ-1o/view?usp=sharing Abstract. A New Carcosa: A Short History is my attempt to not only create the Dungeons & Dragons supplement of the same name but reframe it in a better image. Like a lot of things from the Cold War, I do not think the original aged well. I have …
For my STEAM project, I will be talking about a rare congenital heart condition known as Tetralogy of Fallot (“fuh-loh”). The objectives I’ll be covering are “know the path of blood through the heart and circulatory system” and “explain the structure and function of the heart”. I chose this topic …
For my STEAM project, I decided to create a board game that reflects some of the ways different animals survive in nature. Each animal has different immunities to certain challenges in the game that coincide with some of their survival adaptations in real life. The goal of the game is …
This is a culminative picture of my project over the last 2 semesters, I have some more detailed and labelled pictures below. This is the final image of developed Astrocytoma. In this image the branches have become long, thin, and tangled with one another. There is also evidence of the …
My project is about hemophilia, which is a disease where an individual doesn’t have all the right clotting factors so they cannot form blood clots quickly or at all. I created two models, one which shows an individual’s vessel that formed a blood clot. It shows platelets, clotting factors, and …
I drew images of the trachea and then proceeded to find branches to create the lungs. I also took Play-Do and created a heart. In one image you can see everything, the right is on the left side with the normal/healthy lungs, while in the second it is sitting simply …
For my project, I created a children’s book outlining what it means to have Sickle Cell Disease, a disorder where red blood cells are irregularly shaped like a sickle rather than a biconcave circle. The book follows the struggles of Steve the sickle cell as he tries to carry oxygen …
Barrett’s Esophagus is a condition in which the esophagus becomes damaged by acid reflux, also known as heartburn. For my STEAM project, I have decided to sculpt two separate stomachs and esophagi out of clay. The green cotton balls represent the stomach acid, and I also included the texture of …
For my steam project, I used Red bull cans to create the ECG line that would represent atrial fibrillation, a common heart arrhythmia often caused by excessive consumption of energy drinks. Atrial Fibrillation, if serious enough can cause heart attacks, strokes and thromboembolisms, all live-threatening cardiac conditions. The rhythm can …
