Candid Student Reports

The following (emails) were written by members of the Modeling Your World during the first session of the program. Some elements may have been removed for various reasons, but the text that remains is in the student's own words.

Today we were given a sheet with instructions on how 
to build a model in Stella.  We had to design The model 
and make it work.


 Steven

TOday was the last day of modleing your world we did 2 
stella modles they were really hard to do the were also 
confusing but with little help we did the job


 Amos

Today was our last day of modeling our world, and today 
we put our knowledge to work.  Given data on Lynx to 
Hare predator-prey relationships, we used STELLA to 
create graphs showing how the populations change depend-
ing on each other.  We did this pretty much by ourselves 
(save for some small detials), and then we put different 
varibles through the graphs to see how they changed.


 Alan

The last day or MYW was alot of fun.  Even though the 
Lynx and Bungee Jump project was hard it was also very 
fun.  I like brakes and the food but i think we need 
more drinks, thats just me though.  I will probally 
come back for another Program


 Dan

Today was the last day.  We we recapd on the models we 
used all week.  Then we built a model on STELLA about 
lynx and hares living in Africa.  Then we did built a 
different model on bunjee jumping.  Today was so fun!!


 Ari and Michelle

Today was the best day yet! We used STELLA for the 
entire class, and generate complex models of a bungee 
jumper's fall and a population of lynx and hares. I 
made my lynx and hare model much more complex by adding 
pumas and dry spells. It was awesome!


Andrew

I enjoyed my week at MYW!  I learned a lot about models 
and population changes that I didn't know.  I hope to 
eventually return here to volunteer or get a job!


 Aaron