The class started off with a discussion about sequences led by Dr. Panoff. Towards the beginning of class, he put up a sequence of seemingly uncorrelated data and asked what numeral came in a blank that was in the sequence. When no one was able to answer, he said that he would give the answer at the end of the class which gave everyone something to try and figure out. Moving on, the class continued work on a simple epidemic model that they had started the day before. Dr. Panoff showed the kids how to "color map" the background agents. After that, he demonstrated how having smaller individual agents will increase the overall size of the model and will carry more data, hence the phrase "Build Large, Model small." Next, a guest speaker, a director from IBM, came in to talk about the computational science in the professions world, as well as his job, passions, how he balances his life and various other topics. After everyone had been given the chance to ask questions, the group returned to working on the agent sheets models. Right before lunch, Dr. Panoff told the students the solution to the sequence of numbers, which turns out to all be 16 base 10 in different bases.
After lunch, Alexandra taught a new modeling method called NetLogo. To start off, she started with an exercise involving everyone to get into groups and write explicit instructions on how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. She then used Rachel as a turtle to show what Netlogo code might look like. To familiarize everyone with NetLogo UI, Alexandra had everyone download a simple epidemic model, similar to the one used previously, but this time written in programming language that Netlogo understands. Alexandra asked everyone to work on particular tasks with Netlogo for practice. Once all of the shodor scholars finished their introductions to NetLogo, Dr.Panoff talked with the students about what style of modeling each student found interesting, as well as what models they were interested to work with in the future.