Video Game Coding 101 (Sessions 1, 2, 3) Sarah Valentine

Come join team coding in a fun filled workshop where you can create your own video game. Students will learn the basic concepts of computer coding and then will be allowed to go on their own adventure, problem solving and using their critical thinking skills to bring their gaming ideas to life. Computer science has never been more fun. How big is your imagination?

Chomp The Graph: Analyzing a Two-Player Game (Sessions 1, 2, 3) Sally Clark

We briefly learn about Graphs (from the mathematical subject area of Graph Theory); then we learn a 2-player game called Chomp The Graph. Players take turns doing certain moves to delete an initial graph. We will analyze some simple graphs to see who has the winning strategy – Player 1 or Player 2 – if both players make smart moves.

Breaking the Code! (Sessions 1, 2) Anneliese Spaeth

Participants will be led through how to break some mystery codes, and do some code cracking themselves! Some examples will be given using the computer language Python, demonstrating how computers are much faster at breaking codes than humans are in many cases.

A Forensic Mystery: What contaminated the Sports Drink? (Sessions 1, 2, 3) Nick Thomas

If you have ever watched a modern crime show like NCIS on television, you will know forensic science is used to solve crimes. In this activity, you will use the spectrometer to solve a similar mystery.

Exploring the Composition of Earth (Sessions 1, 2, 3) Randy Russell

Have you ever wondered how scientists know what is inside the Earth and other planets? We will learn about the concept of mass density and measure the density of rocks from the Earth’s surface. We will then measure the density of the entire Earth. A comparison of the two densities leads us to a surprising conclusion about the composition of the Earth’s interior.

Alphametic Puzzles (Sessions 1, 2, 3) Mosisa Aga

Alphametic Puzzles: An alphametic puzzle (also sometimes known as a cryptarithm) is a type of puzzle where words are put together into an arithmetic formula such that digits can be substituted for the letters to make the formula true. In this presentation we will first introduce the definition and the Guiding Rules of the puzzle and then have fun with some (selected) and easier examples of such puzzles.

Understanding Why: Solving Geospatial Problems with Geographic Information Systems (Sessions 1, 2, 3) Terry Winemiller

Students will view a short presentation on the power of Geographic Information Systems to solve questions about why a place exists or incident occurred in a particular geography. After the presentation, students will have an opportunity to work with GIS on the desktops in the GIS Lab.

Moore’s Mortgage and Modeling in Math. (M^4) (Sessions 1, 2, 3) Lili Moore

Do you want to be Chip and Joanna? Understanding mortgage loans while you sharpen your basic mathematics skills is what I will show you in this session. Students will apply math formula in designing and modeling houses through real world application problems. D. Y. I. Girls can be tough!

Finite vs. Infinite (Session 3) Yi Wang

We will look at the difference and connection between finiteness and infinity, perhaps one of the ever-lasting themes of mathematics. With hands-on examples of finding the fraction form of a decimal number with a repeating tail, participants will be fascinated by the concepts of finiteness and infinity.