AIOP Jul. 12, 2024

Minutes

Attendees: David L., Thomas B., Lisa S-L., Rhonda B.

• Dates
  • F113 reserved all day
    • Oct. 16 - Semiyah (preferred date)
    • Oct. 1. - Rhonda
    • Still need tech trial date

• Student selection
  • Lisa suggests we give general criteria and allow teachers/staff at schools to select
  • Bulleted list of criteria will be best
    • Should indicated 7th graders who have an interest in ....
    • We should emphasize kids who may have an interest in DS but not get much exposure
  • Looking for 4 kids from each of 8 middle schools in order to get group of ~30 students
  • Rhonda suggested CTE teachers may be better to ask for help in student selection than Life Science teachers given that this will focus on Data Science

• We will need 2-3 teachers to help manage the kids

• Funding
  • Science Ed. can cover the cost 30 kids
  • Other possibilities would be to ask CST division or write a JSA proposal
  • Rhonda will help with buying swag (e.g. T-shirt ) for each child participating

• Activities
  • Thomas shared what he's been thinking about for activities
    • After thinking for a while, he thought incorporating a competition element might be beyond reach given the time and lack of background most kids will have
    • Perhaps doing image segmentation to identify parts of a cell (ties back to Life Science)
    • Use laptop cameras for training on emotions due to facial expressions
  • Discussed a few options. Agreed that we should get a rough draft put together and iterated with Rhonda before July 26th meeting

• Out of Office:
• David will be gone Jul. 20 - Aug. 5
• Thomas will be gone Jul. 19 - Jul. 24

Action Items

1. Ask Diana about LLM comparison
2. Bulleted list of criteria for student selection
3. Draft of activities sent to Rhonda before July 26