Candid Student Reports

The following (emails) were written by members of the Saturday Explorations Club during the third 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 used a program called STELLA. We used 
three things on STELLA they were called Carwash, 
Flu epidemic, and Drug. They tought us how to make
computer models of how much work it would take 
to wash your car to perscribe someone a drug and 
to see how many people would get sick with a flu 
epidemic.

Kati

Today was a lot of fun because we got to work on 
STELLA.  We made a Car Wash, Flu, and Taking Drug 
models.  They were really fun because when we 
finished we got to see the results and watch them 
occur as they happened.  We got to see how much 
money we could make from a car wash, how many 
people would be healthy, get a vaccine, get the flu, 
or get better,and we got to try to give patient the 
right amount of medicine to make them healthy but 
not kill them or hurt them.  Today was the best 
meeting so far by far.

Ryan

Today in class we worked with models on the 
computer.With the program Stella we did three 
different programs.They were called Car Wash, 
Flu Epidemic, and Drugs. They showed us how 
much easier it would be if you used the computer 
before you actually did it. Example we used the 
program Car Wash and when we finish we knew 
the most we should charge for one car and get 
the most money. That is a lot easier then just 
guessing.

Christine