Summer camp 2022
Science Camp RECAP
June 13, 2022 - June 24, 2022
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​21 instructors, 5 TA's, 20 lectures,
100+ Students are from 11 States in US and Canada
day 1: 6/13
Anatomy - Sense Organs
INSTRUCTOR: Angela J.
TA: Daniel L.
all about Fossils
INSTRUCTOr: Angela J.
day 2: 6/14
Waves and oscillations
INSTRUCTOR: Andrew Y.
TA: Jianyu W.
IT'S All about time
INSTRUCTOR: Andrew Y.
TA: Jianyu W.
day 3: 6/15
remote Sensing
INSTRUCTOR: Edwin L.
Pollution
INSTRUCTOR: ISaiah S.
day 4: 6/16
bontany
INSTRUCTOR: boheng C., Jerry L.
Epidemiology
INSTRUCTOR: rohit S.
day 5: 6/17
solar power
INSTRUCTOR: sanya B.
RAGS to robot
INSTRUCTOR: benjamin S., Angela Y.
day 6: 6/20
cell biology
INSTRUCTOR: selena Y., Hank H.
TA: Katy Z., Isabella C.
genetics
INSTRUCTOR: Rishab S, Antone J.
TA: Claire S, Isabella C.
day 7: 6/21
control programming
INSTRUCTOR: Hao G.
TA: Eric L.
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In the Control Programming session today, students learned about the concept of the PID control loop in the context of competitive robotics programming. Students were given an introduction of the history of the PID controller, the math behind each term in PID, and how PID is tuned with tuning constants. At the end of the class, students tried out simulations of PID in action and were able to ask the instructor questions about competitive robotics in general.
Main topics:
-Instructor's competitive robotics journey
-Introduction to competitive programming
-History/original purpose of PID
-The math behind the individual terms in PID
-Tuning Constants
-Video demonstrations and simulations
Resources
http://georgegillard.com/documents/2-introduction-to-pid-controllers
Wright Stuff
INSTRUCTOR: Nathan M.
Wright stuff is all about airplanes! You build your own, test it out, and adjust as needed. You require precision hands and the willingness to work hard to build your very own. In class today, kids learned about how airplanes fly.
Main Topics:
Aerodynamics
Motions of a plane
Parts of a plane
Rubber power
Building a plane
Resources:
Build your own: https://tiyurl.com/3wrjhdxs
Learn more:
day 8: 6/22
codebuster
INSTRUCTOR: rishab S.
Ecology
INSTRUCTOR: Anton J.
TA: Claire S.
day 9: 6/23
Autonomous vehicles
INSTRUCTOR: dylan L.
Machines
INSTRUCTOR: Sanya B.
day 10: 6/24
SPACE
INSTRUCTORs: Connor Z., Olivia Z.
In today’s cosmology class, students learned about many aspects of cosmology, the study of the cosmos. We went over what cosmology is, and tools that cosmologists use to measure distance in space, called standard candles. We learned about the beginning and development of the universe, and how particles and early stars formed. Finally, we learned about a few unsolved problems that are currently being researched: dark matter and dark energy. Dark matter is a term for the hypothetical invisible matter that holds together most of the universe through gravity, and dark energy is a mysterious energy that causes the expansion of the universe to accelerate.
Here are some articles for further reading:
Big Bang: https://www.space.com/25126-big-bang-theory.html, https://www.space.com/42261-how-did-inflation-happen-anyway.html
Universe Age: https://newatlas.com/space/new-studies-disagree-age-universe/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/05/03/cosmologys-biggest-conundrum-is-a-clue-not-a-controversy/
Dark Matter: https://home.cern/science/physics/dark-matter https://www.amnh.org/learn-teach/curriculum-collections/cosmic-horizons-book/franz-zwicky
Dark Energy: https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/d/Dark+Energy
stellar evolution
