Research

Faculty and staff members have received countless grants. Most recently the Physics Department has earned MIT-Lemelson and Toyota Tapestry grants; the Biology Department has earned a Toyota Tapestry grant; the Art Department earned Community Foundation grants; and the school earned a $100,000 Department of Education G5 Technology grant, as well as grants from NASA, the National Science Foundation, EPSCoRs, the Sloan Foundation, and the GTE Growth Initiatives for Teachers Fellowship Program, among many.

Anti-Landmine Robot: Physics students built an anti-landmine robot and presented their findings to a panel at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Computer Science: artificial intelligence; computational linguistics

Lingo: Each year the foreign language department publishes a collection of student poems and essays.

FIRST Robotics: Beginning in the 2010-11 school year, ASMS has an active FIRST Robotics team. Team website: asmsrobotics.com

Mathematics: graph theory; complex analysis; advanced calculus; topology; knot theory; boolean algebra; visual mathematics; dynamical systems

Math Skills: The ASMS Math Team has placed first in numerous state math competitions.

Oculus: Each year the English department publishes a collection of student poems, essays, and art.

Physics: microcontroller operations of motors and servos; studies of the atmosphere and ionosphere; studies of the mobile bay ecosystem; Parallax's Advanced Robotics Curriculum including elements of embedded control to construct a walking robot with passive and active IR derection and GPS to navigate; atmospheric electric fields and their relationshp to solar winds.

Poison Gas: In cooperation with Berkeley (Calif.) Physics Lab, students monitored radon concentration throughout the state of Alabama.

Pollution Study: Each year, biology students canoe into Mobile Bay to measure man's impact on the ecosystem.

SIDS Monitor: Students built a monitor to prevent Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. The device alerts parents when a baby's regular breathing pattern is interrupted.

Six-Legged Robot: The robot could walk from one point to another using GPS navigation.

Shoe Measure: Students built an automated shoe size measurer that used sonar scans of the foot to display the shoe size on an LCD display.

Virtual Reality: Computer science students created virtual worlds using the VRML scripting language.