Sage Days for high schoolers?

[kcrisman]

See for instance http://mathematica-camp.org/about.html - which I will be teasing my open source advocate friend at Bentley about :)  I bet it's a money-maker for them, anyway, at $1700 a pop for housing that wouldn't be used in the summer anyway.

Certainly some of what William has done with HS students has been sort of like this.  It would fantastic if one could host something like this at a few colleges - or, more plausibly, convince some of the many math camps out there who are already OSS-friendly to be sure to advocate for R/Sage/Maxima/friends.   Especially if it were cheaper ;-)

Ideas?  Just throwing this out there.

- kcrisman

[William Stein]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 5:43 PM, kcrisman <kcri...@gmail.com> wrote:

See for instance http://mathematica-camp.org/about.html - which I will be teasing my open source advocate friend at Bentley about :)  I bet it's a money-maker for them, anyway, at $1700 a pop for housing that wouldn't be used in the summer anyway.

Certainly some of what William has done with HS students has been sort of like this.

I was lucky in that what I did was fully funded -- the students didn't have to pay for anything, and got full room and board, thanks to a huge anonymous donation to the program (SIMUW). 

 

 It would fantastic if one could host something like this at a few colleges - or, more plausibly, convince some of the many math camps out there who are already OSS-friendly to be sure to advocate for R/Sage/Maxima/friends.   Especially if it were cheaper ;-)

Ideas?  Just throwing this out there.

- kcrisman

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[michel paul]

Is there a record of what you did with them? I'd be very interested.

Thanks,

- Michel

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[William Stein]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 7:09 PM, michel paul <python...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a record of what you did with them? I'd be very interested.

But of course

https://github.com/williamstein/simuw12

(at least, that's last summer)

There are some older links here: http://wstein.org/courses/

[Kelvin Li]

On Monday, April 15, 2013 5:50:41 PM UTC-7, William Stein wrote:

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 5:43 PM, kcrisman <kcri...@gmail.com> wrote:

See for instance http://mathematica-camp.org/about.html - which I will be teasing my open source advocate friend at Bentley about :)  I bet it's a money-maker for them, anyway, at $1700 a pop for housing that wouldn't be used in the summer anyway.

Certainly some of what William has done with HS students has been sort of like this.

I was lucky in that what I did was fully funded -- the students didn't have to pay for anything, and got full room and board, thanks to a huge anonymous donation to the program (SIMUW). 

 

As a 2008 SIMUW'er, I have to say this is an amazing program (both SIMUW and Sage, that is)! I squarely blame SIMUW, William, and Sage for getting me sucked into the open-source world. :-)

 

 It would fantastic if one could host something like this at a few colleges - or, more plausibly, convince some of the many math camps out there who are already OSS-friendly to be sure to advocate for R/Sage/Maxima/friends.   Especially if it were cheaper ;-)

Ideas?  Just throwing this out there.

- kcrisman

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