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Imsaloquium 2024 Event Booklet, Student Inquiry And Research (Sir)

IMSAloquium Event Booklets

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Welcome to IMSAloquium 2024. This is IMSA’s 37th year of leading in educational innovation, and the 36th year of the IMSA Student Inquiry and Research (SIR) Program.

2023 Imsaloquium, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

IMSAloquium Event Booklets

Welcome to IMSAloquium 2023. This is IMSA’s 36 th year of leading in educational
innovation, and the 35th year of the IMSA Student Inquiry and Research (SIR) Program.

2022 Imsaloquium, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

IMSAloquium Event Booklets

Welcome to IMSAloquium 2022. This is IMSA’s 35th year of leading in educational innovation, and the 34th year of the IMSA Student Inquiry and Research (SIR) Program.

2021 Imsaloquium, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

IMSAloquium Event Booklets

Welcome to IMSAloquium 2021. This is IMSA’s 34^th year of leading in educational innovation, and the 33^rd year of the IMSA Student Inquiry and Research (SIR) Program.

2022 Viewbook, Office Of Admissions

Viewbook

IMSA fosters the discoverers. The thinkers. The problem-solvers of the future who can change the world. Our mission is to ignite and nurture creative, ethical, scientific minds that advance the human condition. We are a diverse community that promotes curiosity and exploration. We’re about more than great college prospects and great jobs, we’re about making our families proud. We’re about a better world for everyone through immersive learning experiences.

2022 Viewbook, Office Of Admissions

Viewbook

EXPLORA, APRENDE Y IMPACTA AL MUNDO. IMSA fomenta a los descubridores. Los pensadores. Los solucionadores de problemas del futuro quien puede cambiar el mundo. Nuestra misión es encender y nutrir mentes creativas, éticas y científicas que promueven la condición humana. Somos una comunidad diversa que promueve la curiosidad y la exploración. Estamos a punto más que excelentes perspectivas universitarias y excelentes trabajos, estamos a punto de hacer nuestras familias orgullosas. Se trata de un mundo mejor para todos a través de la inmersión experiencias de aprendizaje.

2020 Imsaloquium, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

IMSAloquium Event Booklets

Welcome to IMSAloquium 2020. This is IMSA’s 33rd year of leading in educational innovation, and the 32nd year of the IMSA Student Inquiry and Research (SIR) Program.

2020 Viewbook, Office Of Admissions

Viewbook

IMSA fosters the discoverers. The thinkers. The problem-solvers of the future who can change the world. Our mission is to ignite and nurture creative, ethical, scientific minds that advance the human condition. We are a diverse community that promotes curiosity and exploration. We’re about more than great college prospects and great jobs, we’re about making our families proud. We’re about a better world for everyone through immersive learning experiences.

In 2017, we adopted the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a call to action that commissions us all to make the right choices now to improve life for …

2019 Imsaloquium: Student Inquiry And Research Program And Imsa Internship Program, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

IMSAloquium Event Booklets

Welcome to IMSAloquium 2019! This is IMSA’s 32^nd year of leading in educational innovation, the 31^st year of the IMSA Student Inquiry and Research (SIR) Program, and the first year of the newly imagined IMSA Internship Program.

2018 Imsaloquium, Student Investigation Showcase, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

IMSAloquium Event Booklets

"This is IMSA's 31st year of leading in educational innovation and the 30th year of the Student Inquiry and Research Program (SIR)! ... These studies have all happened during the past year in a variety of laboratories, real or virtual, on and off campus. Students were asked to not only learn a great deal about complex topics, but to contribute to them in meaningful ways. The presentations you hear today reflect the various stages of their work on a myriad of projects."

2017 Imsaloquium, Student Investigation Showcase, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

IMSAloquium Event Booklets

"This is IMSA's 30th year of leading in educational innovation and the 29th year of the Student Inquiry and Research Program (SIR)! Welcome to another year of profound investigation and discovery! In these pages, you will find exciting abstracts on a variety of fantastic studies done by IMSA's great minds."

2016 Imsaloquium, Student Investigation Showcase, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

IMSAloquium Event Booklets

"Welcome to the twenty-eighth year of the Student Inquiry and Research Program (SIR)! This is a program that is as old as IMSA. The SIR program represents our unending dedication to enabling our students to learn what it is to be an innovator and to make contributions to what is known on Earth."

2015 Imsaloquium, Student Investigation Showcase, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

IMSAloquium Event Booklets

"We want to express our gratitude for the generosity and steadfast support of all the experts and leaders who have nurtured These collaborative partnerships are the strength of our SIR program."

2014 Imsaloquium, Student Investigation Showcase, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

IMSAloquium Event Booklets

"The ability to work with professionals is a life-changing experience for our students. Working with world-class scholars and advisors, students have contributed to advances in a variety of fields from science, technology, engineering and mathematics, to the performing arts and history."

2014 Viewbook, Office Of Admissions

Viewbook

Established by the State of Illinois to develop talent and leadership in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy has become an internationally recognized, world-class powerhouse for inspiring, challenging and nurturing talented students who use their exceptional abilities to improve people's lives. IMSA's advanced residential college preparatory program enables academically talented Illinois students in grades 10 through 12 to reach extraordinary levels of achievement.

2013 Imsaloquium, Student Investigation Showcase, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

IMSAloquium Event Booklets

"This year, we are proudly celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of IMSA’s Student Inquiry and Research (SIR) Program. Our first IMSAloquium, then called Presentation Day, was held in 1989 with only ten presentations; this year we are nearing two hundred."

2012 Imsaloquium, Student Investigation Showcase, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

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"Through SIR and its partnerships, IMSA students engage in rich opportunities to pursue compelling questions of interest, conduct investigations, engage with extraordinary advisors, communicate findings, and ultimately impact society."

2011 Imsaloquium, Student Investigation Showcase, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

IMSAloquium Event Booklets

"Inquiry Without Boundaries reflects our students’ infinite possibilities to explore their unique passions, develop new interests, and collaborate with experts around the globe."

2010 Imsaloquium, Student Investigation Showcase, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

IMSAloquium Event Booklets

"IMSA students engage in investigations in nanotechnology, particle physics, law, neonatal medicine, literature, transplantation biology, water purity, the educational achievement gap, neurobiology and memory, ethics, theatre, discrete mathematics, economics, and more."

2009 Imsaloquium, Student Investigation Showcase, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

IMSAloquium Event Booklets

"SIR enables students to pursue solutions to problems that challenge our global community through partnerships with distinguished professionals at colleges and universities, research institutions, businesses, and museums.”

2008 Imsaloquium, Student Investigation Showcase, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

IMSAloquium Event Booklets

"Marking its twentieth year, IMSA’s Student Inquiry and Research Program (SIR) is a powerful expression of the Academy’s mission, “to ignite and nurture creative ethical minds that advance the human condition.”

2007 Imsaloquium, Student Investigation Showcase, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

IMSAloquium Event Booklets

"In conjunction with IMSA's 20^th Anniversary and to better represent and capture the sophistication and quality of the students' exemplary investigations, IMSAIoquium: Student Investigation Showcase was developed as the new name for what has previously been termed "Presentation Day."

2006 Eighteenth Annual Imsa Presentation Day, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

IMSAloquium Event Booklets

"We believe that our goal of creating "decidedly-different learners" is already being met and will make a profound impact on the future of humanity."

2005 Seventeenth Annual Imsa Presentation Day, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

IMSAloquium Event Booklets

"The Student Inquiry and Research Program fosters the development of students as highly skilled and integrative problem finders, problem solvers, and apprentice investigators, all skills required to succeed in the global workplace of the 21" Century."

2004 Sixteenth Annual Imsa Presentation Day, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

IMSAloquium Event Booklets

"Students who attend the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy do not have to wait until they graduate from college to begin to make significant contributions to science, mathematics, the humanities and the world around them."

2003 Fifteenth Annual Imsa Presentation Day, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

IMSAloquium Event Booklets

"Through the IMSA Student Inquiry and Research (SIR) Program, IMSA's young apprentice investigators open our eyes to what is possible in fields such as cell biology, genetics, computer science, biomedical engineering, science education, economics, bacteriology, archeology, biotechnology and immunology."

2002 Fourteenth Annual Imsa Presentation Day, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

IMSAloquium Event Booklets

"As you begin to turn the pages and learn about the extraordinary research work of IMSA's young investigators, I hope you will begin to see what is possible."

2001 Thirteenth Annual Imsa Presentation Day, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

IMSAloquium Event Booklets

"Professional associations such as the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the National Association of Biology Teachers, the American Society of Microbiology ... have all featured the research work of MSA students through presentations and publications."

2000 Twelfth Annual Imsa Presentation Day, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

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" ... professional research journals such as Nature, Biology of Reproduction, Neuroscience Research Communications and Ceramic Engineering and Science Proceedings have all featured the research work of MSA students through presentations and publications."

1999 Eleventh Annual Imsa Presentation Day, Illinois Mathematics And Science Academy

IMSAloquium Event Booklets

Abstracts can be found attached in alphabetical order under the first presenter.