Fwd: [IISME-L] Adobe Day, Lunar Research, ICME Open Day, Physics & The Simpsons and More!
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From: Syreeta Watkins <swat...@iisme.org>
Date: April 22, 2011 12:36:47 PM PDT
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Subject: [IISME-L] Adobe Day, Lunar Research, ICME Open Day, Physics & The Simpsons and More!
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- Adobe Day at Krause Center for Innovation (KCI)
- High School Lunar Research Program with the Lunar and Planetary Institute
- ICME Open Day
- Samsung Scholarship Competition for High School Students
- ETP of the Week: "Metric Data Analysis"
- Website of the Week: Physics and The Simpsons!
Learn from the pros at Adobe Day at the Krause Center for Innovation! This is a FREE event and will be held at KCI on Friday May 6th, 2011 from 1:30pm to 5pm!
Adobe engineers are coming to Foothill College’s Krause Center to teach the latest and greatest tips and techniques for using Adobe CS5!
Session topics include:· Session 1: Photoshop (Digital imaging for visual impact)
· Session 2: In Design (Desktop publishing) / Flash (Animation)
· Session 2: Acrobat X (Info/media packaging for online delivery)
· Session 3: Premiere Pro (Create and edit instructional videos)
· Session 3: Premiere Elements (Create videos on a budget)
To reserve your seat in these free sessions and for more information, please visit http://www.krauseinnovationcenter.org/adobeday/index.html. For questions, please contact Janet Davis at davis...@foothill.edu
For more of the great tech course offerings at KCI, please check out the Spring Schedule & sign up instructions by following this link: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B74_B90-VcE1MjJmNzEzYTEtZTRiZS00MGI3LTk3NmQtMzI5NTY2ZGVkOGRi&hl=en&authkey=CN7b0b8OThe Center for Lunar Science and Exploration at the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) and NASA's Johnson Space Center is looking for teams of highly motivated and dedicated high school students and their teachers to participate in a two-semester lunar research program for the 2011-2012 academic year. Under the mentorship of a lunar scientist, students work alongside their teachers as they undertake a national standards-based research project that engages them in the process of science and supports the science goals of the NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI). At the end of the semester, students present their research results to a panel of lunar scientists, competing with other teams for a chance to present their work at the NLSI Forum held in July 2012.
For more information, contact Andy Shaner at 281-486-2163 or sha...@lpi.usra.edu. Visit the program's website at http://www.lpi.usra.edu/nlsi/education/hsResearch/. You can also visit the FAQ page at http://www.lpi.usra.edu/nlsi/education/hsResearch/faq/.
K-12 teachers are invited to join Stanford’s Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering (ICME) for a day of talks, demos and posters showcasing some of the exciting research projects ICME faculty and students of ICME are involved in. This event will be held on Saturday, May 7, 2011 on the Stanford University campus.
Program for the day:· 10:00 am Welcome by Margot Gerritsen, Director of ICME
· 10:05 am Opening address given by Shanker Trivedi, VP Business Development, NVIDIA
· 10:30 - 12:30 Research presentations*
· 12:30 - 1:30 Lunch break with poster session and simulation demos
· 1:30 - 3:00 Research presentations
*Research presentations are all 30 minutes and cover projects in animation and graphics, earth sciences, aircraft and engine design, coastal ocean dynamics, and social networks, among others. You will learn how the exciting field of computational mathematics drives innovation in the sciences and engineering at this day of talks on real life applications.
Topics include:· Solving Life’s Little Mysteries: Mathematical Modeling of Living Systems at the Molecular Level
· The Mathematics of Networks of Connections: Pages, and People, and Papers, Oh My!
· How PhDs Make Movies
· Why Optimize?
· The Science of Prediction: Random Computations on 100,000 CPUs
· Earthly Mathematics
· Fluids, Math, Computers and the Environment
· High Performance Real-Time Visualization of Elastic Materials and Tissues
The ICME open day event will be held at Stanford University in the Mackenzie Room located on the 3rd floor of the new Huang Engineering Center. For directions, please visit: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/visitorinfo/plan/maps.html
This event is FREE! Please RSVP by going to https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dDBYb2N4Z0FEb014STdrSzUxT01HR2c6MQThe Samsung 2011 Scholarship is open to any U.S. high school student, age 15 years or older. Applicants must write an essay, in 300 words or less, responding to the question: "Is technology critical to a live presentation? Or is technology just a crutch?". Samsung will select 10 winners to receive scholarships of $1,000 each. Deadline is April 30, 2011. For more information, please visit: http://www.samsungscholarship.com/
While at Lockheed Martin Space Systems, a 2010 Fellow designed the Metric Data Analysis project that encourages students to analyze data collection and reporting techniques. The lesson includes a discussion on validity of data, sample size, and outliers which will aid students in understanding statistical vocabulary. Students will get hands on experience using Excel, Google docs, and PowerPoint. Students will be challenged to predict the outcome of the data before they perform the actual analysis, be expected to work in groups of two as well as manipulate the data into several formats to ultimately present their findings to the class. They will also make statements about the accuracy of their initial predictions and interpolate/forecast numbers for a larger population. In their final presentations, students will need to define the formulas used and explain the statistical vocabulary they are using.
All activities, handouts, notes, and assessment pieces for this curriculum are included. The following link will take you directly to the "Metric Data Analysis" ETP. Check it out! http://community.iisme.org/lessons/display.cfm?lessonid=881Member of the American Association of Physics Teachers, Northern California/Nevada Section (NCNAAPT), Dan Burns, has collected a great set of clips from The Simpsons TV series that illustrate physics concepts! Each video clip includes a brief description of the physics involved! The possibilities are endless! Check it out! http://ncnaapt.org/index.php/physics-in-the-simpsons-great-video-clips/
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