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| Dr. Sonnenberg showed us eco-friendly packaging made of bullrushes, sugar and bamboo! How cool is that! |
Aly's dad, Neville Sonnenberg, was Team 6-4's STEM speaker this week. He shared with us what is a fairly new STEM field, Materials Engineering. We divided up into 3 groups. Each group had to decide which characteristics metals, ceramics and polymers have such as: does the material conduct electricity, is it hard, is it strong, expensive? Then, he showed us how engineers use these properties to develop new products.
Thank You for coming into our class and teaching us all about metals! I really liked how you gave us an activity and we had to decide the characteristics of the material. I really like Materials Science! Are there many more materials or are there just polymers, metals, and ceramics. Have people used copper or platinum instead of diamond? Also, what are the blades made out of? Is it expensive to make the handle of a razor out of gold? What part of Material Science attracted you to become a materials scientist? What materials does Gillette use in general? Has Gillette made other boxes out of bamboo and sugar? Does Gillette use a machine to put the diamond onto the razor blade?
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Thank you so much Dr. Sonnenberg for sharing your profession with Team 6-4. Your presentation was clear, interesting and very informative! It was great to have the students involved in your activity. I enjoyed the items you shared with us as well!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for coming, I absolutely LOVED your presentation!I really enjoyed how you had activities for us to do, and how you presented your job to us in a clear, complete manner. I think that materials Science is so cool! Can you make everyday objects out of different things that are more comfortable or lighter and easier to use? And are you working on doing that? Also, I agree with Javid, Are there any other materials besides polymers, metal, and ceramics? Well, of course there are, as you told us that they were the MAIN ones. But if there are, then what are they? Also, why can't you use anything other than diamond. Why can't you use some material almost as hard as diamond? Does Gillette use the best and cheapest most global materials? What else does Gillette make? Does it make anything else? Does Gillette make some things in other countries and some here because the materials needed to make some thing is more plentiful here or in some other country than any where else? Just wondering! Any way, thank you so much for coming, and I really enjoyed your presentation about your job! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for coming into our classroom and teaching us about materials. I learned so much from your presentation, like that ceramics don't bend and that plastic isn't biodegradable. I think your job is so cool! After learning about materials, I'm looking at everything differently, like why is the drawer made out of wood and the handle is made out of metal, and why isn't it the other way around?
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Bella
I am so pleased you grasped the concept so well. We did not discuss "natural materials" like wood, granite, marble and rubber.Your body uses natural materials in very amazing ways. Your skeleton and teeth are made out of a ceramic like materials.Your muscles are made out of materials that have some properties like polymers. There is a group of materials scientists studying natural materials and making synthetic versions.
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Thank you so much for coming in. You had an amazing presentation! I had a lot of of fun learning about material science! I didn't know plates were made out of ceramics. How did you go from chemistry to material science? Was the razor handle made out of gold or a substitute and was it expensive to produce? Was it also expensive to use diamond on the razor blades? Is there a new kind of razor blade being made to reduce cutting? Is the blade made out of metal or a different substance? How is the blades and diamond put on the blade? Thank you so much for coming in!
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Hi FGITWW,
DeleteGlad you enjoyed the presentation. Thank you for inviting me to your classroom. I was so impressed by how smart your classmates are. The questions were great and the class was so so attentive. STEM careers are great with lots of overlap. An Electrical Engineer can become a materials scientist. My Materials Science Prof is now doing research on cancer. There will be STEM careers that have not been invented yet.
Thank you for comming to our class to show us what you do as a material scientist and engineer! it was awesome learning about the pros and cons of metals, polymers and ceramics. it was also cool that we could all do the activity you cave us. one other thing that i thought was nice is that I learned why forks and knives are made out of metals and not ceramics or polymers.
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- Kevin L.
Thanks for coming in and explaining all about material science. It was fun learning about what materials do well and what they do badly. It was also helpful to do the tables. Thanks again!
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Glad you enjoyed the exercise. Hopefully you will never look at materials the same way again.
DeleteThank you so much for coming! I loved your experiment and I also liked the way you presented it. I had fun getting split into three groups and writing on the table about glass,ceramic, plastic and metal. Isn't diamond expensive? Is the handle made out of metal ? Are all the parts mostly the same? If you look close could you see the diamond coat ? What does the Boston part of the company do? Thanks again for coming I really enjoyed learning about your STEM career . It was really interesting ! - Kenzie M
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for the awesome presentation. What a day I had. You did such an awesome presentation. I learned about ceramics, polymers, and metals. Material science is so much more interesting than I thought it would be. In my minds eye, I always thought material science would be something like a guy sitting at a blocky metal desk pondering the uses of some discrete metal or plastic. I think that glass might be a ceramic, but I don't know yet. Glass is hard, strong, and smooth like a ceramic. I also learned a lot about metals. Is metal really that easily marred? If so, then how do people use it in machinery where it could easily be ripped to shreds? Furthermore, I learned much about polymers. I agree with you on inventing new ways to make plastic biodegradable. Thanks for telling us about a lot of different uses for metals, ceramics, and polymers. I never knew that gillette blades were coated with diamond. If they can make diamonds so easily, why don't they make all diamond jewelry cheap? Thanks also for telling me about what the gillette handles were made of ( the zinc felt really light). It astounded me to learn about material science and all the things associated with it. Why did you become a material scientist? What drove you to accept this wonderful stem career? Thanks again for teaching me so much, I loved learning about the "hybrid" materials which were made of different materials combined together. I hear that you used zirconium to make the gold on the gillette blade handle, very interesting. Keep up the good work! I loved the novel idea of using sugar to make plastic. Thank you so much, bye!
ReplyDeleteHi kevin,
DeleteThank you for your attention and great questions during my presentation. I was so excited to hear how much the group absorbed. I think I see some new STEM career candidates coming !
Dear Aly's dad,
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for the presentation it is realy cool how you make the razors your stem career looks realy fun. I never knew polymers was a word for plastic.Do you sell the razors all ver the world? and what is your job do design the gillette razor or do you put them together? Have you ever met one of the olimpic athlets to give them the razors or does some one else? Thank you so muck for coming to our class and teaching us about your stem career!!!!
-Lexi
Thank you for coming in and teaching us about what you do for work. I didn't know that you could have a package that's made out of bamboo, sugar and bullrushs.
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Thanks for coming in to our classroom and telling us about your job. Sometimes when i'm in the car I pass by Gillette Shaving company. Also I think that it was very nice that you made a activity for the class.
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Thanks Mr. Sonnenberg for coming to our class and sharing what you do as a job. I liked how you explained what and how to use different materials at different times.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for coming to our classroom and teaching us about materials science! I really liked the activity we did that we had to figure out what the characteristics of the material was. I thought that was fun. I also thought the new package for the razor had a cool texture and was really cool. I also liked seeing the razor in 3 diffferent part.
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Ella P.
Glad you found the talk interesting and informative. Thanks for inviting me.
DeleteThank you for taking the time to in come in and teach us about materiel science. I think it was very interesting how you need to select specific materials so they serve their purpose.
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thanks for coming in Dr. Sonnenberg! I wanted to ask you a question about your materials for the box: why do you use bamboo? i know it's probably the best and cheapest material, but it's a giant panda's main source of diet and they are endangered and they eat about 50 pounds of bamboo a day, so you are taking away their food, and you can see what that means.and you probably won't switch to something else, i just want to know why. and i know it is probably the best material for the box. and by the way, i think it was awesome that we were the first people to see the brand-new gilette shaving stuff in the U.S. except for the people that made it.
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suki
Bamboo is a wonderful natural material. It grows very fast and is what we call a renewable resource. We can plant large forest, cut the bamboo down and next year we will have another crop. We do not cut down the natural forests where Pandas live.
DeleteMost plastics today are made from oil based materials. Oil took nature millions of years to make and at some time in the future will be used up. It is what we call a non-renewable resource.
I saw that razor that you gave to Mr. Bunting at Stop and Shop
ReplyDeletetahnk you for coming
ReplyDeleteThank you for coming in and telling us about your job as a materials scientist. I never used to think about what materials an object were made with, but now I have more background knowledge and can refer to this lesson whenever I think about it. Your presentation was really interesting, and I never knew that so many different scientists had to work together to create things like razors, even if that's not what people would usually think of as part of their job. Thanks again for coming in! I really enjoyed your presentation!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for coming in and teaching us about your job Mr. Sonnenberg I really liked your presentation and the things you brought in
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Thank you so much for coming to team 6-4 and sharing your knowledge of material science with us. I learned a lot from your presentation and very much enjoyed it very much. I also really liked how you brought in the razors and showed us the different steps in which they were made. I will most definitely remember material sciences as a possible future occupation. Thanks again!
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Dr. Sonnenberg,
ReplyDeleteThank you for coming to share about your job in materials engineering. It was interesting to do an activity on how you choose materials for the products you make. The activity had a lot of comparing and contrasting. It's interesting to know that a thin layer of diamond is glazed on the blade of the razor. That sounds pretty sharp!
- Colin
Thank you so much for coming to teach us about your job of being a material scientist.I really apreciated you coming to teach us about the branch of being a material scientist. I learned that the main materials were plastic,glass, and Metals.I thought there were more main materials.I like material science but I will stick to designing stuff. I was surprised that some parts of the razor blade box had a bit of bamboo made in it. I really learned a lot from your presentation.I never knew what a razor really was but i now know some of the parts of the razors.I have many questions but i will ask only one, why are there only 3 main materials and not more?
ReplyDeleteDr. Sonnenberg,
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for coming into our classroom, last week! I really enjoyed hearing about what it's like to be a material scientst. What I found especially cool, is that you make your newest packaging container for the razors, at Gillette are partially made out of sugar! Something I didn't know know, that i knew before, is that you guys cover the razor bladesm with a thin layer of diamond! I would think that would be pretty expensive. I also didn't know that you made the handle of that specific design of razors' handle, was made with gold. One last thing I didn't know, is that ceramic is harder than metal. Again thank you for coming into our classroom! I really enjoyed it!!!
-Maddy
DeleteDear Doctor Sonnenberg,
ReplyDeleteyour presentation was fantastic! I never new that diamond is glazed on the blade of a razor! Also, it was cool that you showed us packaging from the company that you work at that were unrevealed to the public yet! The golden razor you showed us made for the Olympics was pretty awesome as well. You also came up with some great activities for us to do. Thank you so much for coming!
-Bobby
Thank you so very much for coming into our class and teaching us about material science. I never really thought about why things are metal or plastic. The 1.5 periods were 100% discovery. I never knew materials can be that interesting!
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Thank you for coming and showing us and teaching us about your products. Before then i never knew about that there were 3 groups, Metals, ceramics, and polymers.
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Thank you so much for coming in and teaching us about your job as a material scientist. Its really cool that you work for Gillette which is a very popular company. The Olympics razor was really interesting. I never knew that thing were made from certain materials for a reason, I just thought that they were made out of a specific material for no reason at all! I hope you come in again.
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Thank you mr.sonnenberg for coming. I learned alot about metals,ceramics and polymers.I might look in to your job.
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Dear Mr.Sonnenberg
ReplyDeletethank you so much for coming in and teaching us about being a material scientist. I found it very interesting to learn that so many scientists go into making one small razor.I also found that your presentation was very clear. My favorite part was the table because I found it very clear and helpful. How many scientists does it take to build a razor?
Isabelle
Thank you so much for coming in and teaching us about material scientists! I really enjoyed your presentation and learned a lot about material scientists like that there are three types of main materials: polymers, metal and ceramics. I learned a lot about how they can be grouped and really enjoyed the activity. Is putting diamonds and gold on the razors expensive? What inspired you t be a material scientist? Thanks again!
ReplyDeleteThanks for coming!
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Mr.s I really enjoyed your presentation and I learned about all the differences and also about why we use metals on ceramics instead of ceramics.I have a. Question for you.Why can't you use any other materials instead of bamboo?
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Thank you for coming to our class and teaching us about a material scientist. It was really interesting and I like the activity we did. Thank you for coming.
ReplyDelete_Samantha
Thank you for coming and teaching us about your job and I loved the activity we did.
ReplyDeleteThank you for coming! I wish you could come again! I learned a lot!
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Thank you for coming in to teach us about your stem career. How did you make the razors?
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Thank you very much for coming into our class and I really enjoyed what you taught us. I thought the activity was fun and very interesting! ~Henry
ReplyDeleteDr. Sonnenberg,
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for coming to our class! I had a great time with the activity we did. Are the razors with the diamond really expensive?
Thanks again,
Darby
Thank you for teaching us about what yyou do. I now know that it takes more than ne job to do something.
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Dr. Sonnenberg,
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for coming to our classroom! I had a great time learning about material science and doing the fun activity that you set up for us. Are the razors with diamonds on them really expensive? Is it hard to make them? What's your favorite part of your job? Do you make anything other than razors? Thanks again for coming in to our class.
Thank you,
Darby W.
Dr.Sonnenberg,
ReplyDeleteThank you very much for coming in and teaching us about the different kinds of materials. I learned that there are four different categories of materials. I also enjoyed the fun activity and it was interesting to learn about the different materials like whether it was hard or expensive. I also learned how razors are made and the materials a razor is made of. I learned what being a materials scientist is like. I enjoyed your presentation a lot and found everything extremely interesting. Thanks again for coming in to our class! -Willen