Cancer is a disease where healthy cell become cancerous and hurt other 
healthy cells. Surgery and radiation are way to fight cancer where the cancer is killed directly with a knife or a laser. Cancer can also be fought using medicine. Medicine uses chemicals to stop the cancer from growing and spreading and then kills the cancer cells. Medicines is one of the best ways to fight cancer but the medicines are hydrophobic. Hydrophobic means that the medicine cannot work in water and our blood and body have a lot of water in them. This is where engineers use a nanotechnology (very small tool) called micelles. Micelles are shells which the medicine can go inside to stay away from water. The micelle takes the medicine to the cancer cell and lets the medicine kill the cancer cell.
The student handout will be given to all students working on the design challenge. It gives a brief recap of the story, it helps the students identify what they are attempting to achieve, and it recaps the design process.
Micelles: Cancer Fighting TEK8 Instructor’s Guide
This Instructor’s Guide provides the instructor additional information on how to run the design challenge with alternatives for materials and test setups as well as information to help make the design challenge a good educational experience.
The Telling the Story Video conveys the societal impact of the student’s research that is the basis for the design challenge and will set the problem-solving context for students.
The Design Challenge Video leads students through the design process. It indicates materials available, states what the criteria are for success and any constraints. It also gives a second ‘level’ of the design challenge that allows ‘early completers’ to move on to a slightly more difficult challenge.
The presentation can be used in conjunction or in place of the Design Challenge Video.