Junior Year Presentation: Creating Alternative Energy

An example presentation of one of the team's experiment.



  • For this project, juniors at Samueli Academy were expected to learn more about chemical reactions and the different types of them to be able to create our own alternative energy because we are currently facing a problem with global warming and need to practice different alternatives for energy. We worked with a group for this project to be able to research and create our own procedure for an experiment that we would conduct that would be able to produce energy, we also needed to find methods for being able to harness this energy and what we would be able to use this energy for. Another requirement for this project was recording our group conducting the experiment and explaining along the way the actions we are doing and why we are doing them. At the end of the project we created a presentation explaining what we had done throughout this project like the type of chemical reaction that we had done along with why we decided to use that chemical reaction and how we were planning on using and harnessing this energy. 


  • Overall we were able to learn more about the job of Biochemist and how they study chemical reactions of substances in living systems. We were required to study and figure out the type of chemical reaction that would be able to give off the most energy, and that is a way to how we were exposed to their type of work. This would allow students to be given the chance to become interested with the topic and learn more about different branches of science. Collaboration is a skill that you will have to learn and you will become better at it and become proficient at it after your first year here at Samueli Academy, it is a skill that we usually always use in all of our projects and it overall prepares us for the working environment and needing to work with others. We also had to use our skill of oral communication when presenting our final presentation. Overall it was important to learn about this topic because eventually we are going to need to settle for different alternatives for energy because using coal and emitting these harmful emissions are damaging our planet. 

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