2023 Coding Camp 2

2023 QuarkNet Coding Camp 2

 

Time: Sunday, July 23 - Friday, July 28

We will share our work on the CC2 group document

Coding Fellows

Tiffany Coke (tcoke@punahou.edu), Hawai’i QuarkNet Center 

Tracie Schroeder (bravesearth@gmail.com), Kansas QuarkNet Center

Joy Breman (jy.breman@gmail.com), Florida State University QuarkNet Center

Kayla Mitchell (kayla.mitchell@aps.edu), New Mexico QuarkNet Center

Chris Hatten (c.hatten.77@gmail.com), Houston QuarkNet Center

Welcome! 

Thanks for wanting to spend a week of your precious summer with us. In return, we’ll do our best to give you a truly valuable experience learning how to enrich your courses with coding and particle physics. 

 

QuarkNet’s Coding Camp 2 is a one-week workshop for teachers of high school physics and related topics to gain in-depth experience with fundamental computer programming skills and applications. Particle physics is used as the context for these learning experiences where teachers practice analyzing and visualizing data from high energy experiments with spreadsheets and python notebooks. Coding Camp 2 builds on teachers’ prior exposure to programming through QuarkNet’s Data Camp and Coding Camp 1 and broader professional development in particle physics, data science, and computational modeling.

Agenda

Sunday, July 23

  • Plan on arriving at the hotel by 6pm. Communicate with Adam (info above) if you’re having trouble and we’ll get it sorted.
  • 7pm meet in Residence Inn conference room or outside if the weather is good, short check in meeting
    • Quick activity
      • Determine the local magnitude and direction of the Earth’s magnetic field. There are several good, free apps for this. PhyPhox is great if you don't have one already.
    • Light Dinner (around 8pm)
      • Pizza, vegetables, snacks

Monday, July 24

9AM meet in Residence Inn lobby to travel to Fermilab

  • Get into carpool groups
    • Driving directions from the hotel to Fermilab Wilson Hall (the tall bldg, locals just call it “the highrise”). You’ll need to enter this direction through the East Gate on Day One to get the business visitor badge from the guard at the gate. Have your QR code and ID ready!
  • Head to Building 327. Here’s a map. From Wilson Hall heading east, it’s the last building on the left. We held Data Camp there for the past ~5 years, if it looks familiar. 

 

9am-11:45am at Fermilab

  • Welcome!
    • Have everyone introduce themselves
    • Structure of the week
      • student-hat: early in the learning cycle, this is for you to learn new things, some will be beyond what you’d have your students do  

BSCS 5E Learning Cycle 

QuarkNet Github

  • teacher-hat: later in the learning cycle, apply what you’ve learned to design a lesson for your course
  • Safety, bathrooms, coffee, shoes, lunch

 

11:45am walk to lunch at Wilson Hall Cafeteria

 

12:45pm walk back to Building 327

  • Complete Data Viz

 

2:30pm Guest speaker Nate Saffold, Lederman Postdoctoral Fellow

Sub GeV Dark Matter Searches with Skipper CCDs

 

3:30pm Share out

  • Add your colab links to our CC2 group document
  • Share a short gem or two from the conversations you had relating to data visualization today  

 

4:30pm Wrap up

 

Around 5pm Leave Fermilab for Residence Inn

 

 

 

Tuesday, July 25

8:30am meet in hotel lobby to drive to Fermilab

9am Building 327 at Fermilab

  • Questions from yesterday? Collect them here for the fellows or to crowdsource solutions from each other.
  • More student-hat time: focus on B Field Variation notebook (make a copy in your own Gdrive)
    • Discussion on data storage: Github,  A tutorial
    • How do you use Github or how would you like to use it?

 

9:30am DEI Discussion with Adam LaMee, APS PhysTEC

 

  • Drop a read-only link to your Colab in this document: Share Out 
    • Some folks have tips, advice, or activities to share that would benefit everyone, if you want to add your ideas to the same document, different tab, we’ll set aside time on Thursday specifically for intergroup sharing

 

 

11:30 pm Lunch at Wilson cafeteria (drive to visit the science center afterwards)

https://www.clover.com/online-ordering/fermilab-caf---taher-batavia

 

12:30 pm Leave for Lederman Science Center

 

1:30pm Building 327 at Fermilab

  • More student-hat time
    • Finish up the t’ test activity comparing magnetic fields in 2 locations
    • Upload your completed activity as view only in the Share Out  document

 

3pm Rebekah Randall: Neutrino Fellow and President of CSTA Indiana

 

4pm Wrap up B Field

 

 


 

 

 

Wednesday, July 26

8:30am meet in hotel lobby to drive to Fermilab

9am Building 327 at Fermilab

 

9-10:30 Working in building 327 at Fermilab

 

10:30am Scarlet Norberg: Postdoctoral Researcher at UPRM (snorberg@fnal.gov) 

 

11:30am Lunch: Fermilab Cafeteria

 

 

1-2:30pm in building 327 at Fermilab

 

3pm Switch from student-hat to teacher-hat. 

  • Reevaluate the 3 activities you’ve worked on with your teacher hat on
    • How would you see this working in your class?
    • How would you change it?

 

4:00pm  Do items 1 & 2 on the QuarkNet must-do page

  • We’ll omit items 3 & 5 and save item 4 (surveys) for Friday AM

 

Leave Fermilab around 4:30pm

Thursday, July 27

8:30am meet in hotel lobby to drive to Fermilab

9am Building 327 at Fermilab

 

  • Teacher-hat time 
    • How do you envision incorporating something you learned this week into your classes?
    • Discuss ideas with other teachers and share
    • Start developing your implementation plan

 

 

10:30am tour of Wilson Hall (1 hour)

 

Some other things

 

Lunch: 11:130-12:30

https://www.clover.com/online-ordering/fermilab-caf---taher-batavia

 

12:45pm Building 327 

  • Share your draft implementation plan with your group
    • Spend about 5 min sharing/explaining/letting them try it out

 

2:30pm Dr. Bryan Ramson Neutrino Detection

 

3:30pm Building 327

  • Plan for sharing something you’ve worked on, something you’ve done, a coding tip or a good idea you have in the Share Out  document for Friday morning
  • Add a link to your implementation plan in the Share Out  document
  • Do the daily feedback form before you leave
  • Leave Fermilab around 4:30pm

Friday, July 28

8:30am meet in hotel lobby to drive to Fermilab

9am Building 327 at Fermilab

  • Complete implementation plans and share links on the Share Out document, last tab!
  • Work with each other to review, help edit, help with roadblocks, etc.

 

11:15am Lunch at Cafeteria

 

Photo! 

 

12:30 leave for Building 327

 

1:00pm Final Sharing

  • Share Out  !
  • Show your activity to the group and walk through w/ discussion, between 3-5 minutes - timer will go off at 5 minutes!

 

3pm Final Logistics and Wrap Up

  • Workshop Evaluation When you submit it, you will get a link to a form you can download and fill out to turn in to your district for credit.
  • Do items 1 & 2 on the QuarkNet must-do page
    • We’ll omit items 3 & 5
  • Annual QuarkNet Survey: teachers only need to do a survey once per year, so Coding Camp 1 or Data Camp folks can skip it
    • The full survey (15-20 min) is for any teacher who has not filled out the survey this summer yet
  • Send gas, rental car, travel expenses to Anne Zakas. 


 

Colab tip from Google Support: Notice template for schools when gathering parent or guardian consent

 

Colab parent/guardian permission request sample, generated by ChatGPT

 

 

Graduate credit is available through St Francis University

https://myusf.stfrancis.edu/portal/real/browse/202330?c=24

  • You should register for REAL-696-I (QuarkNet Coding II)
  • Once you register, you should receive confirmation from St Francis

 

Travel to Home

 

Before you travel to Coding Camp 2 

Before you depart, see the Teacher Travel page for the various travel information and pre-camp to-do list we emailed you over the past few weeks. That also has the arrangements from the airport-to-hotel.

Food and lodging

Residence Inn by Marriot has free breakfast in the lobby. You’ll be on your own for other meals, but you do get a per diem of ~ $40/day for food (no need to keep receipts). Fermilab has a great cafeteria open for breakfast and lunch with several hot and cold options at reasonable prices. Teachers will usually coordinate carpooling to go to dinner or have food delivered to the hotel. 

 

Driving directions from the hotel to Fermilab Wilson Hall (the tall bldg, locals just call it “the highrise”). You’ll need to enter this direction through the East Gate on Day One to get an official name tag from the guard at the gate. Have your QR code and ID ready!