2023 UPRM One Day Workshop

UPRM One-Day Data Camp

Workshop Team

Jeremy Smith (jsmith10@bcps.org), high school teacher in Baltimore County, MD
Adam LaMee(adamlamee@gmail.com), teacher-in-residence at University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
Jeff Rodriguez(jeffrodriguez@foresthills.edu), high school teacher in Cincinnati, OH
Jodi Hansen(jdhans@mac.com), high school teacher in Worthington, MN
Gerry Gangon (gerard_gagnon@newton.k12.ma.us), high school teacher in Newton, MA
Enrique Arce-Larreta, physics teacher from Salt Lake City, Utah

Activities below (Colab notebooks) require a Google account

Notebook: Data Camp Intro
- Skills: run, edit, & save a notebook
Notebook: Probability
- Task: Simulate flipping a coin 10 times for 8 trials and make a histogram of the number of heads for each trial.
- Skills: generate random numbers, create and format a histogram
Midday reflection

Notebook: Projectile in Air
- Task: Model the motion of a projectile in air
- Skills: modify a loop, define a function, format a plot
Notebook: Muon mass
- Task: reconstruct the invariant mass of a muon
- Skills: calculate invariant mass given its 4-vector (energy and x/y/z-momentum), make a mass plot
(Optional Extension Task) Notebook: Star catalogue
- Task: create a Hertzsprung-Russell diagram from the Hipparcos catalog
- Skills: load a csv from a URL, analyze and visualize data with limited scaffolding
(Optional Extension Task) Notebook: Leptonic Decays
- Task: characterize a parent particle using CMS dilepton events
- Skills: conduct a mass reconstruction, make a mass plot, fit a curve
Finished already? View student activities at CODINGinK12.org
End-of-day reflection and feedback survey