Candid Student Reports

The following reports were written by members of Modeling Your World, Session B during the first day of the program. Some elements may have been removed/edited for various reasons, but the text that remains is in the student's own words.

I enjoyed it and learned a lot.


Adam

We Learned about how to graph and chart different information about epidemics. 
Pretty cool huh?


Joshua and Matthew

I liked doing the model a lot, and before this I had no clue what calculus was 
other than it is a higher math.


Jeremy

I enjoyed making the graph and the hands on activity we did outside. I 
understood everything and they made it really clear. I did not like the long 
talk we had before we started.


Electra

It was very fun and exciting except for the Stella® graph. The Stella® 
graph makes you think more then you wanted too.


Alex and Timothy

I thought today was pretty good but what I didn't like was doing the graph 
because it was kind of boring just listening to the teacher all day.


Jordan

I had a lot of fun today with the programming. We made a cool computer model of 
a flu epidemic at a boys boarding school early in 1978. We also did a physical 
model of how disease spreads. See ya!


Aaron

Today we made physical and computational models in epidemiology. The physical 
model was made with Legos®, and we used them to represent how an epidimic 
is started. Then the computational model was a graph of how influenza had 
spread in a boys shool in Britian. We had a good time and we learned a lot. 
:)


Fei and Erin

One of the things Shodor teachers could do is explain the words we don't know 
more than once. Overall it was  a good experience that has advanced my 
knowledge of computational science and the mathmatical world.


Emily and Dominque

We learn about how germs can cause a lot of chaos, and how this better. I would 
like to go to different kinds of science labs for field trips so we can see and 
learn different things about science.


Tony and Miles