I am not going to lie…I was definitely worried that our #kfpchat was going to be a one time deal. The second week I tried to host it, so many of the fellows were all out to dinner together that it just didn’t make sense to even try. I got discouraged and thought people weren’t as into the idea as… Read more »
Creating a product from my internship experience started out quite easy. My mentor and I spent the first two working meetings going through all of the ideas we could investigate and working through the physics of it all. We started big and whittled it down to smaller pieces. My internship experience has followed a different pattern than a lot of… Read more »
When Twitter first came out I was vehemently against joining up. I’m not sure why, but I guess I just didn’t have any interest in yet another social media platform. I think that’s completely understandable. Who really needs to know what I’m thinking 24/7? Twitter made it so easy to update anyone and everyone on what was going on in… Read more »
SAMSI is a wonderful place to work. It is the right amount of calm and chaotic! When they are hosting workshops or conferences there are a lot of people in and out learning or presenting about the latest data driven research. During the school year when they have grad students conducting research here I’m sure it is even busier! Part… Read more »
I have a lot of goals when it comes to my Kenan Fellows Internship, but if I were to boil them all down they could fit into these three main goals: Learn how to code in Octave. Acquire an understanding of SAMSI day to day work. Create a project that has real world applications and community involvement. 1. Being able to… Read more »
I don’t consider myself a creative person unless I have come up with an idea pretty early on. That’s when I basically run with it and it becomes a pretty extensive and elaborate idea. In this case, I think I’ve jumped off the deep end with my project idea, but in a good way! I started off with a general… Read more »
Wow! I can’t even begin to put into words how amazing the past week has been. For the past three school years I have taught next door to a Kenan Fellow who has done nothing but rave about the program and NCCAT. Now I can truly see why! I was worried at the beginning of the week. A lot of… Read more »
*The next two posts are all going to be from separate days, but posted at the same time. I wasn’t able to access the blog site while at NCCAT due to a server issue.* The first day/night at NCCAT was exciting! After we went through all of the logistics and expectations (which were incredibly helpful) we launched right into getting… Read more »
I am working at SAMSI with Dr. Tom Witelski for my project! We are going to investigate the chaotic dynamics of a bouncing ball. Dr. Witelski and I met at SAMSI and spent a great deal of time discussing all of the different pieces of the project that we could investigate. We recognized pretty early on that we will have… Read more »
I couldn’t help but start off my Kenan Fellows Blog with a reference to my favorite physics joke of all time. My name is Alexandra Solender and I am a physicist and teacher! I am beyond ecstatic to begin my Kenan Fellows Journey and thought I’d make my first blog post about who I am as a teacher and a… Read more »