STEM is the hallmark of the Mass Academy experience. considered the most rigid and difficult class, STEM is a purely project-based course than instructs students to pursue two intense personal projects: the Independent STEM Project for A, B, and C term and the Assistive Technology project for C and D term. The class is instructed by Dr. Crowthers, who is an amazing project advisor. Assignments in STEM are long-term, including grant proposals and project theses but also formal meetings and in-class presentations. My project focuses on using sucrose as a foliar additive to increase plant nitrate assimilation (key component of nitrogen metabolism and subsequent protein production) under elevated CO2 conditions that would otherwise weaken the nitrate assimilation process. I have briefly explained this with my quad-chart below, which models the format for succinct project presentation used by ISEF. If you are having trouble viewing the log, click here!