Women in Engineering
Camille Balo, Editor-in-Chief, STEM Editor
November 2, 2019
Adviser’s Note: The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed in this opinion article belong solely to the author and do not reflect the view of The Colt Chronicle Staff, Kinnelon High School, or its students and staff members. As of 2018, only 13 percent of engineers are women. However, compared...
Human Colonization of Mars: How Realistic Is It?
Brian Lane, Staff Reporter
October 30, 2019
In recent years, news has been flying around the science world about the possibility of colonizing Mars. However, many don’t know the logistics of Mars colonization. Researchers from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), a university and research center based in Switzerland, proposed...
Math Honors Society Hosts Engineer
Ethan Burt, Staff Reporter
December 13, 2018
For many high school students, the idea of having to choose what career they wish to pursue as an adult is a daunting task that they would rather not even consider. For students at KHS who have considered this question and came to the realization that they are interested in a STEM (Science, Technology,...
World Space Week: Day 7 – Voids and Supervoids
Camille Balo, Editor of STEM, Editor-in-Chief
October 12, 2018
Imagine nothing. If you thought of a void or supervoid in space, then you’re pretty close to being right. Cosmic voids are vast spaces between galaxy filaments (the largest known structures in the Universe) that usually either contain a few galaxies or none at all. Voids th...
World Space Week: Day 6 – Cosmic Microwave Background
October 10, 2018
The Big Bang theory is the prevailing and most accepted cosmological model of our Universe. The theory describes that the Universe expanded from a very high-density and high-temperature state and also provides an in-depth explanation to the broad range of phenomena found in the Universe, including cosm...
World Space Week: Day 5 – Himiko
Camille Balo, Editor of STEM, Editor-in-Chief
October 8, 2018
Located 12.9 billion light-years away from Earth, Himiko, a giant gas cloud located in the constellation of Cetus, is considered to be one of the largest and most distant objects found in space. The cloud, spanning 55,000 light years across (approximately half the diameter of the Milky Way) and ho...
World Space Week: Day 4 – Humans in Space
Camille Balo, Editor of STEM, Editor-in-Chief
October 7, 2018
From fruit flies in space rockets to human-crewed space vessels, hands-on space exploration in an environment that could quickly kill without the right gear has grown substantially. One of the biggest improvements pertaining to in-space research is the presence of humans in space. Yuri Gagarin, a So...
World Space Week: Day 3 – The Formation of Our Solar System
Camille Balo, Editor of STEM, Editor-in-Chief
October 6, 2018
Earth, the Moon, the Sun, Venus; all features that make up our solar system. But, how did our solar system, home to more than 550,000 asteroids, 181 moons, eight planets, and five dwarf planets, form? Well, the answer starts with the Big Bang, a theory about how the Universe came to be, approximatel...
World Space Week: Day 2 – TRAPPIST-1
Camille Balo, Editor of STEM, Editor-in-Chief
October 5, 2018
Life beyond our world has always been a controversial topic, with the lack of information regarding space, life, and the conditions in which living organisms can form, mainly because there are more than one heptillion observable planets in our Universe. The chances of life somewhere out there in the vast vacuum o...
The History and Future of NASA
Camille Balo, Editor of STEM, Editor-in-Chief
October 5, 2018
With the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) 60th birthday just occurring on Oct. 1, NASA has had many historic discoveries, launches, and events. From the early failure of Vanguard to the future plans of conquering Mars, NASA shows its promising future while learning from the pa...
World Space Week: Day 1 – Copernican Heliocentrism
Camille Balo, Editor of STEM, Editor-in-Chief
October 4, 2018
Oct. 4 marks the beginning of World Space Week, a United Nations-created event formed in 1999, that celebrates the contributions of space science and technology. Since then, it has become the largest public space event on Earth, with more than 3,700 events in 80 countries. To celebrate the week, we look...
Falcon Heavy Is Ready For Lift Off
Camille Balo, School News/STEM Editor
February 27, 2018
After years of working on Falcon Heavy, a rocket made by SpaceX, a leading company in space endeavors, another test flight of it finally takes off- with a success I might add. Falcon Heavy is capable of lifting “more than twice the payload of the next closest operational vehicle, the Delta IV Heav...