2023 Coding Camp 1

2023 Coding Camp 1 Agenda

Where: Zoom (links in the agenda below)

When: Monday, June 26 - Friday, June 30, times (times below)

Stipend: $600 ($120/day for 5 days) plus $250 reimbursement for technology (see below)

 

We’ll post agenda and details here as they develop. Looking forward to seeing you all. 

- Adam & Danelix

 

Time Zone

Session 1

Break

Session 2

Eastern & Atlantic

10am-2pm

2-4pm

4-6pm

Central

9am-1pm

1-3pm

3-5pm

Mountain

8am-noon

noon-2pm

2-4pm

Pacific

7am-11am

11am-1pm

1-3pm

Hawaii

(don’t even)

…

10am-12pm

QuarkNet Coding Fellows

Danelix Cordero-Rosario cdanelix@hotmail.com, Univ of Puerto Rico Mayaguez

Chris Hatten, Rice/Houston

Tracie Schroeder, Kansas

Kayla Mitchell, New Mexico

Adam LaMee adamlamee@gmail.com, Lead Coding Fellow, Amer. Physical Soc.

Campers

Name

QuarkNet Center

Adam Jenkins

Hawai'i

Anastasia Perry

Fermilab

Bree Oatman

Black Hills State University

Chelsea Johnson Muir

Florida State

Emily Gwin

Florida State

Eric Apfel

Mid-Florida

Felix Nieves

UPRM

Gary Johnson

Rice University

Ian Finnerty

Mid-Florida

Janet Kahn

William and Mary/GMU

José Pérez Sanabria

UPRM

Katherine Boutin

Florida State

Keith Marshall

Catholic University of America

Lydia Santiago

UPRM

Marc Baron

U of Pennsylvania

Marteen Nolan

Virtual

Marvin Davis

Johns Hopkins

Migda Ruiz

UPRM

Monica Lopez De Victoria

UPRM

Roberto L. Diaz Diaz

UPRM

Sara Kate May

Hawai'i

Tiffany Madison

Chicago

Tseveldorj Oyuntugs

U of Washington

Vandana Raghuvanshi

UChicago

Before Camp

  • Tech stuff
    • You’ll need a device with a mic and camera that can run Zoom 
    • You’ll also need a desktop, laptop, or Chromebook for the coding activities logged into a Google account that isn’t linked to your school account (there may be school restrictions that cause problems). Test your setup by doing some (or all) of this Intro coding activity. If you have trouble with that, let us know and we’ll get you sorted out.
    • Tablets and iPads aren’t great for the coding activities we’re doing. If you need, you could Zoom with a tablet and do the coding parts on another computer (without mic & camera).
    • If you’d like to buy a better router, modem, headphones, cheap Chromebook, upgraded laptop, or other tech to help you participate, we’ll reimburse up to $250 of approved purchases to help you work virtually. Save your receipts to submit at the end of camp.
  • Studying
    • You do not need to read or study before the camp. But if you’re itching to get started, see the “Resources” section at the end of this page for ways to spend your time while you’re avoiding other stuff around the house.
  • Money and graduate credit
    • $600 stipend for completing the week
    • $250 tech reimbursement (see above)
    • (optional) 3 graduate-level science education course credit through University of St. Francis:
    • Even if you don’t enroll in the graduate course, you’ll still receive a certificate for 30 contact hours.
  • Questions? Email Adam at adamlamee@gmail.com

Workshop Goals

  1. Review and reteach core concepts of particle physics, such as the framework of the Standard Model, the anatomy of a particle accelerator and detector, and the methods for calculating invariant mass from 4-vector data.
  2. Review and apply basic aspects of computer programming in Python, such as conditionals, math functions and plotting, and file manipulation.
  3. Use simple programming tools to analyze large datasets generated from the CMS experiment in the 2010 and 2011 runs, and run analyses of these data. Generate conclusions about these analyses that include both calculations and plots (e.g. of invariant or transverse mass).
  4. Search for new scientific datasets available online and write code to perform analyses of these new data.
  5. Design a series of code-centered activities that either add onto existing units in a high school physics course, or replace an already existing activity; create a plan for implementation of these activities.

QuarkNet Enduring Understandings

  1. Claims are made based on data that constitute the evidence for the claim.
  2. Particle physicists use conservation of energy and momentum to discover the mass of fundamental particles.
  3. Indirect evidence provides data to study phenomena that cannot be directly observed.
  4. Scientists continuously check the performance of their instruments by performing calibration runs, using particles with well-known characteristics.
  5. Data can be analyzed more effectively when properly organized; charts and histograms provide methods of finding patterns in large data sets.
  6. Data can be used to develop models based on patterns in the data.
  7. Physicists use models to make predictions about and explain natural phenomena.
  8. Particle decays are probabilistic for any one particle.
  9. Physicists must identify and subtract “noisy” background events in order to identify the “signal.”
  10. Well-understood particle properties such as charge, mass, and spin provide data to calibrate detectors.
  11. The Standard Model provides a framework for our understanding of matter.
  12. Research questions, experiments and models are formed and refined by observed patterns in large data sets.

Agenda

Monday, June 26

Session 1

Zoom Link

(15 min) Welcome (w/ Danelix)

  • stipends, tech reimbursement, graduate course credit
  • plan for the week: student hat first, then teacher hat

 

(30 min) Norms discussion and activity (w/ Danelix)

 

BREAK (5min)

 

(10 min) Our philosophy re:coding (w/ Chris)

 

(2 hrs) Driver/navigator time

Session 2

Zoom Link

(30 min) Guest speaker @ 4:15 PM EDT

 

(30 min) Particle Physics review (w/ Chris)

 

(1 hr) More driver navigator time:

 

(15 min) All hands meeting (w/ Danelix)

Tuesday, June 27

Session 1

Zoom Link

(60 min) All Hands meeting

  • Successes / challenges from yesterday’s notebooks
  • New groups
    • Choose a group based on which notebook you would like to work on. Try to limit to around 3 people per room
    • Keep using the driver/navigator roles in your breakout rooms

 

(30 min) Guest speaker @ 11:00 AM EDT

 

(30 min) Share out intro and probability notebook

 

(1 hrs) Calculate the mass of a muon using CMS data

                  If you finish early can start work Big CMS dataset analysis

  • When you are ready!
  • take breaks as needed
  • swap driver/navigator periodically
  • ask us for help if you get stuck

 

(15 min) All hands

  • Take a look at each group’s notebook
  • What patterns did you find?
  • Any HEP questions?

Session 2

Zoom Link

(30 min) Share out muon mass notebook

 

(1.5 hrs) CMS analysis working time

  • Finish creating an invariant mass plot for you particle
  • Discuss these follow-up questions in your group
  • How would you use your mass plot to tell someone about your particle?

 

If you finish the notebooks, start thinking about how you might incorporate Colab into your courses

 

(10 min) All Hands Meeting

Wednesday, June 28

Session 1

Zoom Link

(30 min) All Hands

  • Thoughts from yesterday
  • Do you 3D print?
  • Money!
    • Anne Zakas needs your SSN, call her at 574-631-2789 and leave a message.
    • For up to $250 reimbursement, email Anne Zakas (zakas.1@nd.edu) with receipts showing payment was made.
    • Graduate credit info ( in the afternoon Adam explain)
    • How to keep reinforcing norms throughout the year?
    • Other cool things discovered
      • data.head() ← what’s the significance of “data”
    • Items 1 & 2 on the 2023 workshop must-do i tems page

 

(30 min) Share out muon mass notebook

 

(1hr) Big CMS dataset analysis

    

  • Work in  Big CMS dataset analysis
  • When you are ready!
  • take breaks as needed
  • swap driver/navigator periodically
  • ask us for help if you get stuck

 

(1hrs) CMS analysis working time

  • Finish creating an invariant mass plot for you particle
  • Discuss these follow-up questions in your group
  • How would you use your mass plot to tell someone about your particle?

 

If you finish the notebooks, start thinking about how you might incorporate Colab into your courses


 

Session 2

Zoom Link

(20 min) Keep generating ‘teacher hat’ ideas

 

  • Chat from the AM session

 

(30 min) All Hands

 

(30min) Preliminary data investigation


 

(15 min) Daily feedback survey

Thursday, June 29

Session 1

Zoom Link

(1 hr) All Hands


 

(30 min) Karolina Wresilo, neutrino PhD student from Univ. of Cambridge

 

(1 hr) Teacher Hat working time

 

(30 min) Share your work so far

  • (add ‘view’ link from each camper’s notebook)

Session 2

Zoom Link

(15 min) All Hands

 

 

 

Repositories resources

 

 

(1.5 hrs) Teacher Hat work time: continue developing and refining new notebook

  • Arduino
  • Mobile app data collection (like PhyPhox)
  • More particle physics
  • Data for social good, locally-relevant data
  • Cosmics
  • Astronomy
  • Computational modeling
  • Hangout room
  • Quiet room


 

Teacher Hat mode

  • work individually or in 2s or 3s
  • develop a plan for implementation with your students
  • use whatever format or structure you’d like

 

(15 min) Daily feedback survey

 

Friday, June 30

Session 1

Zoom Link

(15 min) All Hands

  • Thoughts from yesterday 
  • Money!
    • For stipend: Anne Zakas needs your SSN. You can leave a secure voicemail at 574-631-2789.
    • For reimbursement: send receipts showing payment to Anne Zakas (zakas.1@nd.edu) and she’ll send a check for up to $250
  • Items 1 & 2 on the 2023 workshop must-do i tems page

 

 

(anytime this AM) QuarkNet annual teacher survey (15-20 min)

  • only do this once per year
  • skip if you did this in a QuarkNet workshop already since June 1, 2023

 

(1.5 hrs min) Continue working on implementation plan

  • A good place to include your implementation plan is in your coding notebook.
  • Be prepared to have others look at your implementation plan and coding activity at the beginning of Session 2.
  • Add a link to your implementation plan to the sharing spreadsheet.


 

Session 2

Zoom Link

(10 sec) Group photo 

 

(40 min) Share plans for implementation in groups of 4

  • Assign a timekeeper since this timeline is tight
  • 5 minutes of each camper “Driving” one notebook; 5 minutes of feedback/questions
  • Participate as a student might. The author can make their own notes with comments/feedback.
  • Briefly decide upon ONE activity (of the four) that you want to “showcase” later.

 

(45 min) Coding Activity Showcase

  • (3 min each) Showcasers will screen share, briefly summarize their lesson, and mention some of the feedback received during the small group session
  • Sharing spreadsheet

After Camp

Resources

Learning to code

Data Science

Physics