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Summer Research Kick Off

Hi All,

Happy July 4th! At the same time, we kick off our STEM 2016-17 Summer Research!

A few announcements:

1. By now, everybody should have received your summer assignments for the first week (07/04 - 07/08). If not, please go to the class blog, and then click your team link on the right. You should be able to see your assignments. Please check whether the links are working properly and pointing to the right documents. If anything is not right, please email me ASAP. If you have any question about the assignments, please feel free to email me.
2. By the end of the week, you (and your partner if applicable) should post your progress and results on your team blog.
3. When you read the assigned materials, or watch the video tutorials, please feel free to use your team blog to take notes, record your reflections, and write down your questions. If you have not accepted the invitation as the author of your team blog, please check your email (or spam folder). If you cannot find it, email me and I will re-invite you again.
4. Each team blog has an "Project Resource" page (the link is on the right side). It has a list of project-related resources. I have started putting some links of papers, books, courses, tutorials, etc. Whenever you find something valuable for your project, you should add them to the list.
5. For people who haven't make final decision about your topic or team, you are encouraged to discuss any issues with me. You might want to browse our class and team blogs to get more concrete ideas about what other teams are working on. If you decide to form a new team, I will furnish your assignment starting week 2.

Happy Researching!

STEM Research Project 2016-17

Thanks for your responses! At the beginning of the STEM projects, it is always extremely confusing, but exciting. Unlike most of the other subjects, we don't have any textbooks, fixed course contents or tests. Problems are what we really concern; grades are never at the center of the course. Currently, you are choosing the research areas that are interesting to you, identifying the problems that you are eager to wrestle with, finding partners who sharing the same vision, and participating in the process of defining your own projects for next year. Instead of viewing this as an ill-defined stage of the course, it is actually an important part of the STEM research process! Learning how to ask good questions or forming meaningful hypotheses is a major step in research. Your focus might change, your team might regroup, and your topic might become more specific as your understanding of the research field grows. It's a brand new learning experience! So, the following list is an evolving document. As you decide or change your topics or teams, just send me an email, and I will update the list accordingly. Hopefully this process will be settled down before the summer starts, and we can kick off our summer research!

• Team 1: Autonomous Drone Navigation System in Indoor Environment (Tai wei & Ayoush)
• Team 2: Autonomous Drone Navigation & Swarm Drones (Jacob & Alan)
• Team 3: Big Data & Machine Learning (Belinda)
• Team 4: Bioinformatics I (Parvaneh)
• Team 5: Bioinformatics II (Desirae)
• Team 6: Bioinformatics III (Alex)
• Team 7: Navigation Apps for the Visually Impaired (Avleen)

Advanced STEM Research Introductory Meeting

Here is the PowerPoint file presented in our Introductory Meeting that lays the basic framework for our STEM 2016-17 course. It includes some important info about our research topics & teams, upcoming summer research activities, and the initial planning of next year. Please send me email about your grouping at the end of today. If you have missed the meeting today, please read the file carefully. We are going to use the class blog as our main communication channel. A good course can never be designed by the instructor alone. Your co-design input will make the course great! Feel free to share your thoughts and initiate any discussions on the blog. I am looking forward to having a fun and fruitful year!  

Welcome to the Advanced STEM Research 2016-17 Course

Hi All,

Welcome to the Advanced STEM Research 2016-17 course. The moment you have signed up for this course, you have also become a member of the most vibrant STEM research group in the ElRo community. Advanced STEM Research is a yearlong project-based course. The primary purpose of this course is to provide students an opportunity for firsthand, supervised research in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields.

In order to facilitate the activities and assignments during the summer and in the new academic year, students who have signed up for the course are required to furnish the AdvancedSTEM Research Personal Profile 2016-2017 form. Please log into your school email account before filling up the form, and don't forget to send yourself a copy of your response at the end. The form is due midnight of Wednesday (06/15/2016). Your timely and detailed feedback will maximize your opportunity to land you in a project team of best match.

In addition, we will have our MANDATORY Advanced STEM Research Meeting Thursday (06/16/2016) at 11:45 am-12:15 pm in Room 201.

Here is the agenda:

1. Project teams/topics 
2. Summer research activities and assignments
3. Resource

Some of you might need certain computer equipment to conduct your summer research. Please use the attached Computer Loan Agreement Form for borrowing computers from school, and bring back the signed form and the $200 check before the last day of school.

Since the meeting time will be very short (right between Physics Regents reviews ), we won't have too much time for detailed discussion. If you have any questions, issues, or suggestions, please email them to me ASAP. Thanks and see you Thursday!

Mr. Lin