Upper School Offers New Courses: Advanced Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and More

 The new courses result from evaluating student need and student interests and matching that feedback with faculty knowledge and enthusiasm. 
Upper School students enrolled in St. Margaret’s new advanced engineering honors class will spend the year applying multiple engineering disciplines to the study of space travel.
 
The class will incorporate aerodynamics, propulsion, structural engineering, material engineering, electrical engineering, communications, computer science and astronautics. It will culminate in a final project where teams work to make and deploy a scientific payload aboard a high-altitude balloon or rocket that will communicate data to a ground station. The course, which is taught by Eric Trumbauer, is designed to prepare students for project-based STEAM classes at the university level.
 
Advanced engineering honors is one of several classes debuting in the Upper School in the 2019-2020 school year, joining new offerings in performing arts, history, computer science and mathematics.
 
“New course offerings like these are a natural evolution of St. Margaret’s curriculum that result from evaluating student need and student interests and matching that feedback with faculty knowledge and enthusiasm,” Upper School Principal Jeneen Graham said.
 
A second-semester class in the history department, research methods in American social movements, will examine the history of the United States from multiple perspectives, examining the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, the annexation of the Hawaiian Kingdom, and multiple movements that shaped the United States including the Chicano Movement, the Native American Movement, the Women’s Movement and LGBTQ movements. The class will be taught by Stacey von Winckelmann and Diane Adamson.
 
In math, a semester-long statistics class taught by Collin Layana covers the principles of descriptive statistics, relationships in data, experimental design, and statistical inference. Statistical techniques will be studied with an emphasis on their practicality for drawing conclusions from data.
 
A second-semester computer science class dedicated to artificial intelligence will empower students through programming and problem-solving that touches on informatics fields like artificial intelligence, data mining and analysis and social computing. Students will explore creative applications of algorithms to a wide range of real-world challenges in math, science, language and art.
 
In performing arts, honors courses in orchestra, concert band and jazz ensemble are now offered for advanced study of these musical disciplines.
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