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FIU hosted more than two dozen high school teams who came together to test their knowledge of math and science. For the second year in a row, the competition ended with an “overtime” round. It all came down to this: “Assuming the specific heat of aluminum is 0.9 Joules per [...]
Sophomore Diego Dominguez and his fellow MAST Academy students pondered the challenge: What’s the best way to keep a vulnerable flat roof from blowing off a building during a hurricane? They devised a solution that seemed effective, but admittedly didn’t look so good. They ran with it anyway, deciding that [...]
