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Daily Digest Archive for May 3, 2004

GEM-SET APRIL QUESTION-OF-THE-MONTH for STUDENT MEMBERS:
Many job forecasters predict that nanotechnology will be the wave of the future. Can you define nanotechnology?
BONUS POINT: Name a product that utilizes nanotechnology. (Hint: There are hundreds of possibilities in medicine, dentistry, technology etc.)

The following students sent in a definition of nanotechnology. Students with a + after their name, also sent in examples of products that use nanotechnology. Thank you for your submission, you each will receive a nano-prize product in the mail!
Alexis K. in VA +
Caitlin C. in CO
Chi H. in MO +
Connie P. in NY +
Corinne C. in CA +
Diana J. in CA +
Elizabeth A. in CO
Erin P. + (please send in your state)
Francisca L. in CA +
Ivy H. in WA +
Jane L. in IL +
Jae Y. in CA +
Jennifer T. in FL +
Julia K. in NJ
JungMin P. in CA +
Kathryn T. in VA +
Kelly B. in PA +
Laura G. in NJ +
Mindy G. in CA
Sylvia P. in CA +
Yoonjoo L. in NJ +

Click below to learn more about nanotechnology:
http://www.foresight.org/Updates/Briefing1.html

Here are just a few of the many projects that utilize nanotechnology:

Auto Parts, Cell Phones, Computer Chips, Cosmetics, Microscopes, Data Storage Devices, Nanobots, New Generation of Lasers, Semiconductors, Sunscreen, Surgery Tools, Tennis Racket Fibers, Thermal Barriers, Water Purification....

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