SUCCEED Workshops Summer 2012, for students....

Posted Thu, 04/05/2012 - 2:37pm by eileen

Shodor (Durham, NC) home of the Computational Science Education Reference Desk, offers great workshops for youth in grades 6-8, and 9-12. These are great opportunities for students to have fun, learn about science and math, sharpen computer skills, and more: 

  • Explorations in Engineering (6th-8th and 9th-12th): Want to be an engineer or find out what an engineer does? Take this workshop. Students will learn what it takes to be an engineer and learn concepts like circuitry and the principles of structural engineering, including how computer models aid in design.

  • Intro to Programming Concepts (6th-8th and 9th-12th): In this workshop students focus on the basic essentials of algorithms and computer programming. Throughout this course students will be creating and running a model from a unix command line.

  • Intro to Web Design (6th-8th and 9th-12th): This workshop gives students the opportunity to be able to create their own websites from scratch. Participants will use skills such as HTML and CSS to add text and create backgrounds as well logos for their website.

  • Math Explorations (6th-8th): This workshop covers topics like probability, graphs, patterns, correlation, variables, measures of central tendency (mean, median, and mode), etc. Students have the opportunity to play games and create their own graphs, patterns or ratios to help explain each topic.

  • Forensics (6th-8th): Like to solve mysteries? This is the perfect workshop for you. Students in this workshop investigate a "crime scene" at Shodor and then have to use their wits and computer skills to find the culprit. Many times, it's whom you least expect! Students hold interrogations and receive help from a virtual police dog that they create.

  • Modeling Your World (6th-8th): This workshop has students demonstrate various ways to display data or a model. Students will use Agentsheets, Vensim and Netlogo to study such topics as the spread of diseases and the ecosystem.

  • Graphics and Visualization (9th-12th): Like video and computer games? In this workshop students will create their own basic graphics. By the end of the week students will be able to to create your own game that can be played online.
  • Modeling Your Universe (9th-12th): Students in this workshop will explore real-world math and science problems on a large scale. Students will use interactive tools as well varying scales of cluster computing resources to study such topics as the galaxies, disease spread, and other complex problems in math and science

  • Shodor's Scholars Program (9th-12th): This two-week program incorporates elements of all the SUCCEED workshops into one. Not only will students learn about different topics from different workshops but they can combine all of them together to make their own website with various models on them. This workshop helps prepare students for the SUCCEED Apprenticeship program at Shodor.

For more information, please visit www.shodor.org/calendar