UPRM One-Day Data Camp
See the most up to date agenda here. We will update the agenda below at the end of the workshop.
Quarknet Teaching & Learning Fellows
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Jeremy Smith, high school teacher in Baltimore County, MD
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Adam LaMee, teacher-in-residence at University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
Before June 20
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Register on the Indico event page
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Complete the pre-workshop survey
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Try out the Data Camp Intro notebook
Saturday, June 20
9:30-12:00
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CODE.org video
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Lo Que Falta En Nuestras Escuelas (Sp w/ En subtitles)
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What most schools don’t teach (En w/ Sp subtitles)
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Working together
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Norms, APS STEP UP poster & Fermilab norms poster
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Video: Pair programming how-to (YouTube) (Amara w/Sp subtitles)
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Activities below (Colab notebooks) require a Google account
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Notebook: Data Camp Intro
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Skills: run, edit, & save a notebook
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Notebook: Probability
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Task: Simulate flipping a coin 10 times for 8 trials and make a histogram of the number of heads for each trial.
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Skills: generate random numbers, create and format a histogram
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Midday reflection: Zoom poll
1:00-5:00
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Notebook: Projectile in Air
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Task: Model the motion of a projectile in air
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Skills: modify a loop, define a function, format a plot
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Notebook: Muon mass
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Task: reconstruct the invariant mass of a muon
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Skills: calculate invariant mass given its 4-vector (energy and x/y/z-momentum), make a mass plot
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Notebook: Star catalogue
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Task: create a Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
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Skills: load a csv from a URL, analyze and visualize data with limited scaffolding
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Notebook: Leptonic Decays
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Task: characterize a parent particle using CMS dilepton events
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Skills: conduct a mass reconstruction, make a mass plot, fit a curve
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Finished already? View student activities at CODINGinK12.org
