Science
The largest planet in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
A device that converts sunlight into electricity by using photovoltaic cells.
What is a solar panel?
Engineering field that focuses on advances in technology and medicine to develop new devices and equipment for improving human health.
What is biomedical engineering?
A mathematical constant that is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, approximately equal to 3.14159.
What is PI?
The JSTI Program that takes place in Maryland.
What is JSTI East?
The process by which plants use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to create oxygen and energy in the form of sugar.
What is photosynthesis?
What the internet prefix WWW stands for.
What is the World Wide Web?
The oldest engineering discipline, dating back to ancient Egypt.
What is civil engineering?
The branch of mathematics that deals with shapes, angles, dimensions and sizes of a variety of things we see in everyday life
What is geometry?
The words that the acronym JSTI represents.
What is the Joint Science and Technology Institute?
A chemical element that has an atomic number of 6 and an atomic weight of 12.
What is carbon?
The practice of defending computers and servers, mobile devices, electronic systems, networks and data from malicious attacks.
What is cybersecurity?
The tallest skyscraper in the world.
What is the Burj Khalifa?
The mathematician who is famous for the mathematical formula that states that the square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides.
Who is Pythagoras?
The project manager at JSTI West.
Who is Natalie Parsons?
A cellular process that replicates chromosomes and produces two identical nuclei in preparation for cell division.
What is mitosis?
The ability of a computer or computer-controlled robot to perform tasks commonly associated with intelligent beings.
What is artificial intelligence?
Also known as 3D printing, the method of creating a three-dimensional object by building it up layer by layer using a computer-generated design.
What is additive manufacturing?
The mathematician who developed the theory of relativity.
Who is Albert Einstein?
The program specialist at JSTI West.
Who is Cinnamon Martin?
The natural frequency where an object vibrates at its highest amplitude.
What is resonant frequency?
A rotating electrical machine that transforms mechanical energy into electrical energy.
What is a generator?
Engineer who pioneered the generation, transmission, and use of alternating current (AC) electricity.
Who is Nikola Tesla?
A calculus term that describes the rate of change of a function with respect to a variable.
What is a derivative?
JSTI West sponsor that protects against threats of weapons of mass destruction against the U.S.
Who is the Defense Threat Reduction Agency?