Summer Institute 2013 Schedule

Summer Institute will meet at the University Memorial Center (UMC) in the Aspen Conference Rooms (UMC 285-287-289)

Monday 6/10/13

 * Goal: Learn and practice the design process (turn stories into code), make your first game, the rules of rules, upload your first game, how to use the wiki
 * PROJECTS: FROGGER 2
 * COMPUTATIONAL THINKING PATTERN: Collision, generation, absorption, transport

For those requesting University of Colorado Boulder Graduate Credits, please note that ALL projects must be completed and uploaded or submitted so numerical grades can be assigned. Pay careful attention to when you are asked to upload or submit information or projects.

Tuesday 6/11/13

 * GOAL: Game 2 started, pedagogy role play
 * PROJECTS: Journey
 * COMPUTATIONAL THINKING PATTERN: User control (cursor), diffusion, hill climbing

6:30-8:30 Evening special STEM speaker/workshop with Bob Panoff (in same room) Dr. Robert M. Panoff is founder and Executive Director of The Shodor Education Foundation, Inc., and has been a consultant at several national laboratories. He is also a frequent presenter at NSF- sponsored workshops on visualization, supercomputing, and networking, and continues to serve as consultant for the education program at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has served on the advisory panel for Applications of Advanced Technology program at NSF. Dr. Panoff received his M.A. and Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Washington University in St. Louis, undertaking both pre- and postdoctoral work at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. As principal investigator on several NSF grants that seek to explore the interaction of high performance computing technologies and education, he worked to develop a series of interactive simulations which combine supercomputing resources and desktop computers. Besides developing and teaching a new course in Information Technologies, Dr. Panoff continues an active research program in computational condensed matter physics while defining and implementing educational initiatives at the Shodor Foundation

Wednesday 6/12/13

 * GOALS: Game 2 finished and uploaded, experience game design in context: case studies (3 x 10 min), how will you use this in your class, 3D teaser
 * PROJECTS: Debugging, advanced features
 * COMPUTATIONAL THINKING PATTERNS: Everything else!

For those requesting University of Colorado Boulder Graduate Credits, please note that ALL projects must be completed and uploaded or submitted so numerical grades can be assigned. Pay careful attention to when you are asked to upload or submit information or projects.

Thursday 6/13/13

 * GOALS: Introduction into agent-based modeling, data gathering, data analysis, what and what NOT to model
 * PROJECTS: Brownian motion, contagion (with many variations, e.g., doctors), make your own simulation

The hand-on process involves picking a model, then creating a problem statement, then decide on an action to take, and rules that drive the action. This process applies to other types of problems in the classroom and life.

Friday 6/14/13
If this is your check-out day, you need to check-out before coming to the UMC. Goals: Advanced Computational Science for STEM

For those requesting University of Colorado Boulder Graduate Credits, please note that ALL projects must be completed and uploaded or submitted so numerical grades can be assigned. Pay careful attention to when you are asked to upload or submit information or projects

Saturday 6/15/13

 * GOALS: First person camera use, using layers, show what MS student can do
 * PROJECTS: 3D Frogger and SIMs game