Have you ever wondered about cloning animals, human beings? Ever ponder the current global warming crisis? Curious about how long before computers and robots are smarter than human beings? Excited about the prospect of living on Mars or Jupiter?
    Challenges and Opportunities in the 21st Century is the class for you! Where a challenge presents itself in the 21st Century, an opportunity exists.
    This class will be offered the weekend before Thanksgiving; November 22-23, 2008.
    During the four sessions offered during Splash 2008, participants will discover 4 major challenges facing the world in the 21st Century:

• Human Genome Project: The mapping of the human genome offers infinitely many opportunities for the human race in the 21st Century including but not limited to:
• Cloning
  
• Eternal Life
• Ownership of the Blueprints of Life
• Global Warming: The current climate crisis facing the world has been propelled into the public spotlight due to films such as "The Inconvenient Truth". This crisis offers a huge challenge to the next generation of scientists and politicians in the 21st Century.
• Sustainable Living Practices
• Maintaining Current Endangered Species
  
• Engineering the Future
• Artificial Intelligence: The advancement from the desktop computer to the invention of the internet only took 15 years. The creation of a mobile media player which can play up to 20,000 songs while weighing less than a CD player. When will computers become smarter than their makers? When will you not be able to tell the difference between talking to your best friend or their robot?
• Robotics in the 21st Century
• Limitations to Robotic Engineering
• Challenges in the 21st Century
• Space Exploration: The future for space exploration is bright! The completion of the Mars Exploration Missions to uncover more information about our mysterious red planet neighbor . The opportunity of living on other planets (such as the moons of Jupiter) offer new neighborhoods of exploration.
• Space Exploration in the 21st Century
• Mars 2045?
• Jupiter 2045?