3D Modeling & Visualization ...

These pictures show the work of researchers investigating a very unusual phenomena in which atoms group together in organized ways that allow the group to act as though is were an atom of a completely different material ... in an almost magical way. Click here to learn more.

This kind of modeling has great importance in the classroom as well. Click here to see how this idea is implemented in the K-12 curriculum in New York public schools. (Requires downloading free CHIME software from attached link.) Click here to see what models of a wide variety of common materials look like. Click here to view other chemical modeling resources.

3D modeling is used in many other applications, and clicking here will lead you to some of them. Academic organizations are often slow to adopt new technologies, and at this site, we see how the University of Virginia has implemented 3D technologies into its first-year engineering curriculum ... skills that are currently being taught in Sisters High School. Click here to see an example prepared by a 2008 SHS graduate in his sophomore year at our school, or one of these (eggbeater, launcher) from students who will be returning next year. Stay tuned.