This week’s blog post is going to be set up a little bit differently than usual simply because my internship was more about creating curriculum than other projects. This means that I have already addressed this week’s prompts in other blog posts. Below is an outline with links for more specific ways that I will bring my internship experience into… Read more »
My fellowship has really provided me with a much more specific outlook as a physics educator. I say specific because physics is a broad subject and the content covers many topics across all courses in high school so it is easy to have a general outlook. This specific outlook is focusing on making my content relevant. This is quite easy… Read more »
I have enjoyed my internship experience this summer. Tom is a really wonderful person and was a lot of fun to work with these past few weeks. On a typical day at SAMSI I would work on my curriculum product and if I had a meeting scheduled with Tom it would be about 2 hours long. The meetings were always… 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 »
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 »