Today class began with Christina presenting the everyone with a few basic rules that must be followed throughout the week. Once all of that was complete, the class went outside where Bob2 showed them a few rope tricks and discussed exactly what the rope was doing as opposed to what it seemed like it was doing. Bob2 then brought the students back in and explained the difference between experimental, theoretical, observational, and computational science. Bob2 then went into greater detail about the requirements of and benefits of being a computational scientist. Next, he took some time to explain to the class the idea of algorithms. Many examples were given and the students were then beginning to understand what they would be doing all week. After that Bob2 went on to explain that computational scientists save a lot of money, meaning they do not use the lab to do so many experiments because using computers scientists can find things out safely and efficiently. While Bob was explaining exactly what computational science is he used mathematical formulas to explain how to tie knots.
After break Renee explained to the students what their next mission would be. She discussed tropospheric ozone with the students and they learned a great deal about chemistry. The students had models that they had to give time to run because 'Storm' is the only computer that can run the program. During the process, the students went to see the computer and Bob2 explained its function and showed them the program that the model was running in.
After lunch, Bob2 took a chance and helped the students to understand the algorithms. He explained this to them using an analogy that the students would understand, he used baking a cake as an example. After Bob2 finished talking, the students viewed their results from the model that they ran before lunch. With Christina the students discussed the results and how effective the model was. They realized that a drop of twenty percent was not great enough and that it would need to be larger. They also discussed how reasonable, as well as likely, it would be to get sixty percent of the population to stop riding in gasoline powered automobiles as well as to stop having cookouts. Later Kirstin came in a gave the students an introductory course of STELLA to the students. She allowed the students to get to know each other better by having those that have not used STELLA before work with those who have.