Middle tech: blurring the division between high and low tech in education
Published 1 October 1998
Mike Eisenberg, Michael Eisenberg
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Abstract
In 1997 the most prestigious high school science fair in the United States—the Westinghouse Science Competition [Berger 94] —was won by Adam Cohen, then a senior at Hunter High School in New York City. Cohen's project, "Near-Field Photolithography", involved the construction of a home-built scanning tunneling microscope (or STM—a high-resolution
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