Hello and welcome. My name is Jenna, and I have been an intern at Shodor Education Foundation in Durham, North Carolina for four years. I am currently working on an a project entitled WEAVE, under Dr. Garrett Love. WEAVE (Web-based Educational Framework for Analysis Visualization and Experimentation) is a set of online engineering tutorials created by Duke professors. I am currently revising the Module 4 lesson to make it more interactive.
In past years, I have done a variety of work, first documenting SUCCEED Workshops. SUCCEED (Stimulating Understanding of Computational science through Collaboration, Exploration, Experiment, and Discovery) provides students with the opportunity to interactively discover various techniques used to become scientists. Specific workshops can be further reviewed on the SUCCEED workshop page.
In 2002, I worked with my mentor, Dr. Garrett Love, writing the content for a website explaining the lessons taught in the Engineers in Training workshop. I have found this to be challenging, as well as enjoyable, where I am able to put together models, and do hands-on activities that the students have already completed. These include 'The Daredevil Design Project' and 'In Straws We Trussed.'
During the Spring of 2003, I began developing the SESOIL Lesson, under Dr. Garrett Love, which encouraged students to further explore groundwater pollution and the soil contaminent transport system.
My hobbies are largely based on music. I have played piano for 12 years now, as well as the clarinet for 8 years. Though these all interest me to a large degree, my largest musical passion is found in singing. I am currently a member of the University Choir at Sewanee, where I attend school. In the past, I have been a member of the Chapel Hill Women's Chorus in Chapel Hill, NC and St Matthew's Church choir. Other hobbies include reading, collecting keychains, traveling, and playing Ultimate Frisbee.
I currently attend The University of the South (aka Sewanee) in Sewanee, TN, where I am a rising sophomore. I graduated from The North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics in 2003, which is a residential high school for juniors and seniors in Durham, NC.
While this is meant to be informational as well as entertaining, I seem to have left out some of the entertaining aspects of a website. Please excuse that as I have not the time to design a complicated, sophisticated website.
You can e-mail me at jingersoll@shodor.org for more information on the foundation, its programs, or my work with the foundation.
This file was written and maintained by Jenna Ingersoll, Intern at Shodor Education Foundation 2001-2004