J-Term Courses End the Year with Gusto!

Part of what makes CSS-MSE's program unique is the J-Term, a third, month-long semester dedicated to interdisciplinary field learning.  This year's J-Term courses included:

• Architecture in the City: A NYC-based study of the history and engineering of our buildings, bridges, and parks.
• Island Biodiversity: Students performed in-depth research on a variety of tropical organisms and experienced 2 weeks of camping in Puerto Rico , with field expeditions to study marine and forest ecosystems.
• Water: From Source to Sink to Sewer. (link to website)  A study of the history, engineering, and ecology behind NYCs water supply and sewage systems.  As part of this course, students embarked on numerous field expeditions in the Hudson river watershed, including a week expedition upstate New York studying watershed ecology.

 Students closed these experiences with culminating projects and multi-media presentations to their classmates during the final days of the school year.  What a way to end!