My journey with you be the chemist

TJHSST is a communtiy packed with students who want to learn. Every student at TJ wants to be there, at an institute filled with the top STEM facilites. During my seventh grade year, I joined the school You be the Chemist team, where my group was tasked with constructing a system to solve any global challenge. 

We decided on a vertical rasied garden system, where plants would be placed on top of each other with incandescent bulbs in between each plant. These types of lights bulbs are cheap, and take up little space, allowing for more cramping. This solution would allow for less horizontal garden space. While my group strongly liked the idea, I was hesitant to submit because of the plants life. I secretly bought and tested the lights: incandescent, LED, and florescant, in my house to see how plants would react. Suprisingly, the incandescent light plant died after a week. The LED and florescent lights were flourisihing, the the florescent were greener. After reporting my findings to my group, we decided to look at other dilemmas. Do the plants have breathing room? How deep will the roots go? Do all plants need the same amount of soil? After more reasearch with all ethical factors in mind, we added a brightness setting, florescant lights, and 8 inches of more soil. 

At TJ, I will look at things from ethical perspectives. By critically assesing each part of every problem, we can make every solution more practical. I hope to solve more environmental problems through the eight period elective, Oceanography and Geophysical Systems.