2023 SMU Center Workshop

Day 1

Session 1

(20 min) Welcome

• Introductions
• Quarknet Registration Form

(30 min) Norms discussion and activity

• Student hat first, then teacher hat
• Hopes and Fears survey
• In groups:
  • Norms poster from APS STEP-UP
  • Fermilab norms poster
  • Which poster items resonate with what you’re doing this week?
  • Which poster would you hang in your classroom?

(10 min) Our philosophy re:coding

• Pair Programming

(10 min) BREAK

(2 hrs) Driver/navigator time

• Intro to Colab
• Intro to coding
• Remember to MAKE A COPY of the notebooks
  • This will automatically create a folder in Drive
• If you finish early, choose one of these notebooks to explore
  • Earthquakes 
  • Sun Position
  • Elements
  • Sunspots

Session 2

(2.5 hour) Continue driver/nav work from session 1. Take a breaks as you need them.

• Position Graphs Notebook
• Falcon 9 Rocket Data
• Mass on a Spring

(15 min) All hands meeting

• Google can be the best programming help
• Daily feedback survey

Day 2

Session 1

(15 min) All Hands meeting

• Successes / challenges from yesterday’s notebooks 

(45 min) Particle Physics review

(2 hr) Driver navigator time

• CMS Particle Analysis
• Take breaks as needed

Session 2

(15 min) share out from session 1

(30 min) Switch to Teacher Hat mode

• What most schools don’t teach video
• Wrapping paper & surface area example implementation

(2 hour)

• Implementation advice on CODINGinK12.org
• Notebooks at GitHub - QuarkNet-HEP/coding-camp
• Brainstorm lesson ideas 
• Start on implementation plan

(15 min) All Hands Meeting

• Daily feedback survey

Day 3

Session 1

(20 min) All Hands

• Thoughts from yesterday 
• Ideas for optional breakouts later
  • Supporting marginalized students?
    • STEP-UP is amazing
  • How to do this without Google access?
    • On your computer: Install Anaconda (includes Jupyter, Python, & all your favorite modules)
    • Free online: Repl.it, JupyterLite
  • Looking for help? Check out these sites:
    • Python Tutorial | Learn Python Programming
    • Matplotlib Tutorial
    • ChatGPT: Your Personal Python Coding Mentor
    • Stack Overflow

• Where to find data?
  • GitHub - awesomedata/awesome-public-datasets: A topic-centric list of HQ open datasets.
  • GitHub - jbrownlee/Datasets: Machine learning datasets used in tutorials on MachineLearningMastery.com
  • Kaggle.com

(anytime today) Quarknet Teacher survey

• If you haven’t done the Quarknet survey this year, fill that out now (15-20 min)

(2 hrs) Continue working on implementation plan

• Brainstorm and data search
• work individually or in groups
• develop a plan for implementation with your students
• use whatever format or structure you’d like
• 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.
• Upload your implementation plan here

Session 2

(40 min) Share plans for implementation in groups

• 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 briefly summarize their lesson, and mention some of the feedback received during the small group session

(10 min) Housekeeping and sign off

• Daily feedback survey
• Keep in touch: appspeterc@gmail.com
• Handy Cheat Sheet: Colab Survival Guide - Colaboratory

Day 4 - Dark Matter Masterclass (Pilot, Peggy Norris)

Session 1

(15 min) Welcome

• Introductions
• Assess prior knowledge - What have you heard or read about dark matter?

(90 min) Evidence for the existence of dark matter

1. The movement of galaxies
2. The movement of stars within galaxies
   1. Activity 1
   2. Activity 2
3. General relativity / gravitational lensing
   1. Activity 3

(45 min) Candidates for dark matter and how we detect them

(30 minutes)  Xenon1T Summary Article Jigsaw activity

Session 2

(1.75 hours) Xenon1T Detector Response for WIMP candidates

• Work through 4 GeV/c2 WIMP mass together
• Each group work through analysis for a different WIMP mass
• Report out by groups

(30 minutes) ORID Discussion in small groups; feedback on pilot MC:

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(15 minutes) What did you learn about dark matter today (post-assessment)? 

(15 minutes) What questions do you still have about dark matter?

(15 min) All hands meeting

• DM Citizen Science
• Daily feedback survey

Day 5 - New Questions in Particle Physics (in development, Ken Cecire)

Sessions 1&2

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