YAC Facts
The number of YAC members in the team's first year
4
The inaugural class size of both NCSSM Durham and Morganton (Same number)
150
This subcortical brain structure, named for its resemblance to a seahorse, is critical for converting short-term memories into long-term spatial and declarative memory.
The Hippocampus
In the coordinate plane, the point (0, 0) where the x-axis and y-axis cross is known by this term.
The Origin
The location of Anna Grace's Study Abroad
Dublin, Ireland
The YAC's traditional 2nd semester event
The Spring Social
1980
The year NCSSM Durham Opened
This atmospheric layer directly above the troposphere contains the majority of Earth's ozone layer.
The Stratosphere
A triangle that has three sides of all different lengths is known by this specific term.
A Scalene Triangle
Akhil's NCSSM Graduation Class
2010
The 3 Committee's of the YAC
Experiences, Digital Community, and Engagement and Philanthropy
In 1998, NCSSM became the first high school in the world to purchase and operate an instrument of this type
A Supercomputer
The Second Law of Thermodynamics dictates that for any spontaneous process, the total change in this state function for the universe must be greater than zero.
entropy
A polynomial expression with exactly two terms, such as x^2 - 9, is called this.
A Binomial
Akhil loves this kind of dancing
Salsa
Members who have received Catalyst Awards thus far
Manny Price and Parker Kelly
Much like the Durham campus repurposed Watts Hospital, the Morganton campus was constructed on the historic grounds of this state institute founded in 1894.
North Carolina School for the Deaf
This fundamental principle states that it is impossible to simultaneously measure both the position and momentum of a quantum particle with arbitrary precision.
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
In trigonometry, this fundamental ratio compares the side opposite an angle to the hypotenuse in a right triangle.
Sine (Sin)
The university where Akhil got his MBA
Stanford
The NCSSM YAC's Team Values
Leadership, Dedication, Collaboration, Adaptability
This North Carolina governor strongly championed the creation of NCSSM during his first term in office
Governor Jim Hunt
This fatty substance produced by Schwann cells in the PNS and oligodendrocytes in the CNS wraps around axons to speed up signal transmission.
myelin (or the myelin sheath)
The derivative of a constant number, such as f(x) = 5, is always equal to this.
Zero
Koala