MEMS, Nanotechnology and the Silicon Run Series

该项目是在Silicon Run系列电影的成功基础上进行的，以收集学生使用这种材料的数据，与两年制大学现有的纳米技术课程合作，并计划未来制作一系列关于微电子机械系统和纳米技术的电影。该项目的学术价值在于迅速扩张的纳米技术领域，该领域在许多科学和技术领域都有应用。更广泛的影响是有可能接触到许多技术和工程项目的学生，以及该项目有意接触到在技术领域代表性不足的女性和少数族裔。

The project is building on the success of the Silicon Run series of films to collect data on student use of the material, work with existing nanotechnology programs at 2-year colleges, and plan for future production of a series of films on micro-electro-mechanical systems and nanotechnology. The intellectual merit of the project is in the rapidly-expanding field of nanotechnology that has applications in many scientific and technical fields. The broader impact is in the potential to reach many students in technical and engineering programs, and in the project's deliberate outreach to women and minorities under-represented in technological fields.