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 »
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 »