 NCSSM is excited to offer the Honors Foundation and Research and AP Seminar courses. As part of College Board's AP Capstone program, see the link on the screen for more details from the College Board on the AP Seminar and research sequences. In plain language, this course is about curiosity. You'll get the freedom to discover. This course is not about tests on facts or processes, but teaching you tools to advance in college and after college by relating professional research to the discovery of new knowledge. So let's look at a screen grab from the science page of a major news website. Where does this new knowledge come from? How do we know it's true? How can we trust it? What is the advanced research that is behind the stories that we might see in the media? That is what this course is about. We'll teach you to dive into the original academic and industry research behind new discoveries, new technology, as well as pre-existing knowledge. These are often published as research articles. Like these examples here, these research articles can cover hundreds of different subjects far beyond what high schools can teach and topics often only taught at major research universities. How will we do this? Both a STEM teacher and NCSSM's library team will teach you how to find academic research, determine its credibility, read that academic research, and compare the research so that you can analyze it, summarize it, synthesize it, and communicate it. We will teach you to ask your own questions and learn more about the research behind a problem or curiosity that you care about. As an AP course, you will also dive into a broad societal topic or problem chosen by the College Board and break down that problem into a variety of possible research questions. But this class is not just about research. You will build your written communication skills and team presentation skills. You will dive deeper into how science and engineering is applied. The course broadly prepares you to be curious and investigate research on any topic. Students that complete this course can continue on to AP research where you have the curiosity and independence to use these skills to complete an independent research project.