It’s Time to Register For:

Thayer Model Engineering!

What Thayer is:

• DartmouthThayer Design Model

• Explore Cool Technologies• Work on Teams• CREATE Cool Inventions• Solve Complex Problems to

Improve the World

Work• On Things

YOU are Interested in Doing

• Not On What a teacher is interested in Doing

Learn• About What You

NEED To In Order To Do Your Project.

• Not About What a Teacher Says You Need to Learn.

This Class is About Doing Not Sitting.

• You have choices in what you do and who you work with.

• No Tests or Quizzes!

• Projects Give You Something You Can Talk About!

Support your team.• No matter who they

are! Work together!

CREATING IS FUN! Examples:

Thayer Model5 Steps:

Thayer is

• Fall Semester Only

• ½ Science Credit

• NCAA Clearinghouse College-level Course- Same as AP Bio or AP Chem

Former Outstanding CVU Student Projects:

The Waterproof Towel

A Submarine Screen Door

A Book on How to Read

The Inflatable Dart Board

An Ejector Seat for a Helicopter!

Powdered Water

The Water-Proof Tea Bag

The Solar-Powered Flashlight

Real Examples of CVU Awards:

 Connect Gene Therapy- Second Place Toshiba - $5,000/each (2007)

Spinal Chip Connector- Second Place Toshiba - $5,000/each (1999)

Jupiter Moon Radio Reveiver- Siemens Westinghouse Honorable Mention- $1,000: Gold Medal VT Science Fair ($100)

Tire Burning Smokestack Cleaner –Gold Medal VT Science Fair ($100)

CVU Awards, Continued

Toshiba Honorable Mention PrizesGastro-Intestinal Diagnostic Capsule

Hydrogen CarBionic Hearing for The DeafPhotosynthetic Hydrogen GeneratorVirtual Real-Time CommunicationNanobot Cures for DiseasesAnd Dozens of Others. . .

Thayer Model Engineering

• Gives You Something to Be An Expert About• Gives You something to Talk About (college

essays, interviews)• Gives Teachers Something to Talk About (letters,

comments)• Gives You Skills in Doing Un-Boring Real-Life Stuff.

Without Adding a Heavy Class on Your Schedule

Register for Thayer Today

Web Links:http://thayer.dartmouth.edu/thayer/

 Thayer projects:http://engineering.dartmouth.edu/~teps/default_materials.html

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