FALCONIUM

 
Falconium is the premier high school science journal. Our quarterly paper and online issues, which are written completely by students, feature a broad range of scientific, technological, and mathematical articles in the form of original research, reviews, and op-eds. You, too, can get published!

Why we're unique

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    Unlike most science magazines, Falconium provides the unique opportunity for students, themselves, to get published. Falconium fills the gap between high-end journals, in which publishing is aimed solely towards professionals, and science magazines written for younger children. Through Falconium, all students--authors and readers--benefit: student authors expand their existing knowledge, and readers gain appealing and useful insights from their peers. Falconium allows students to see the impact of what they learn in the classroom in the real world while acquiring an interest in science.

Falconium staff members sharing their love for science at San Diego Science Festival's Expo Day.

Audience

For readers

Falconium back issues/ archives: http://www.falconium.org/archives
Innovation Blog: http://www.falconium.org/innovation
Community News Blog: http://www.falconium.org/newsblog

For authors

    All students up to age 19 may write and submit articles. A panel of editors will review all submissions. Detailed submission procedures and article writing tips can be found here.

For teachers

    Every issue we publish also comes with a supplementary teacher's guide, intended to facilitate incorporation into the classroom. Click here for a pdf of a recent teacher's guide.

For staff

    Our staff (comprised wholly of high school students) organizes all of Falconium's activities and publications, managing editorial processes, issue design and graphics, website and blogs, and publicity. Staff membership is currently limited to students of Torrey Pines High School and chapter schools. However, all students, regardless of school of attendance, may submit articles.

    If you are a TPHS student interested in joining the Falconium staff, please contact us for more info. If you just want to keep updated on staff activities, please create an account, and we will add you to our mailing list.

Chapters

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    Falconium Science Journal is administratively centered at Torrey Pines High School, and with chapters across North America.

    If you're interested in starting a chapter of Falconium at your school to become more involved leadership and organizational activities, please visit the "how to start a chapter" page. We are constantly seeking more student authors and readers, and are thrilled if you could join us.

History

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    Falconium Science Journal was founded in Fall 2008 by Alice Fang at Torrey Pines High School, under the direction and inspiration of our staff advisor, Mr. Brinn Belyea. Our premiere print issue was published in Spring 2009, with the generous sponsorship of UPS and Gen-Probe. Find out more about how Falconium started in the letter from the president.

    The 2009-2010 school year brought a great increase in our Torrey Pines High School staff membership and participation, with over 50 regularly contributing authors and leadership team members. The support of Life Technologies has allowed for the regular printing of our issues. Falconium is also joined by a scientist advisory board.

    2010-2011 is Falconium's 3rd offical year in publication. With over 90 students actively engaged in the journal at Torrey Pines High School, our current goals include expanding our student audience, starting chapters at other schools, and as always, to produce issues of Falconium that are satisfying to salivating neurons.

Distinctions

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- In the 2009-2010 school year, more than 100 articles, 90 blogs, and 80 graphics to quarterly issues and online specials. Falconium currently has over 90 active staff members!

- Falconium was awarded the grand prize in the national Young Professionals in Publishing Competition. Falconium was complimented for its advanced design, unique concept, well done and clearly edited writing, and cohesiveness of issue.

- Falconium was written about in ScienceBuddies.org, the leading science project help site. Falconium was described as "savvy" and "engaging," "giving science students a rare opportunity," and allowing “emerging scientists to share their research and ideas and to learn important lessons about the process of communicating scientific research to a community of readers.”

- Falconium was featured in the Carmel Valley News/ Del Mar Times.

- Falconium was an exhibitor at the San Diego Science Festival Expo, along with more than 150 of the top science companies and organizations in San Diego. Attendance topped 75,000.

- Falconium was an exhibitor at the “A World We Can Change” conference at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Over 8,000 high school students were in attendance.

- Falconium was distributed to students at Torrey Pines High School, high school competitors at the Greater San Diego Science and Engineering Fair, the UCSD COSMOS program, and many more.

Support

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    Ever since we were founded, Falconium has thrived largely because of the generous support of our sponsors. As Falconium continues to grow and reach out to more students and schools, we are currently in greater need of your support than ever. If would like more information or feel compelled to donate, please contact us.

Links

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Torrey Pines High School: http://www.tphs.net
TPHS Science Department website: http://teachers.sduhsd.net/tpscience/index.htm

Are your questions still unanswered? Contact us! Comments and suggestions are also always welcomed!