SEP Session 2, Day 7 (9-11)

Today in "Religion, Rulers, and Riots," SEP Students played a game! In this game, students were given perspectives (Sossianus, Porphyry, Eusebius, and Lactantius). They were then given the task of presenting their case to the empire Diocletian (Peter Morris). To "win," students needed to be consistent with the perspective of their role and use what they learned about Diocletian's vision to convince him. In the first round, students argued if Christians should be allowed in the military. In the second round, they debated why this should be implemented. And in the third round, the final decision was made.

Today in "Engineering Hogwarts," students worked individually to engineer their own superhero (or supervillain). Students had to come up with a name for their character, an origin story, a description of their power(s), and finally create a 6-8 panel comic strip revolving around their character. After creating their comic strips, students did a gallery walk where they had the opportunity to check out what their classmates had created.

Today in "(Super) Human Physics," students were focused on the idea of invisibility as a superpower. Students confirmed the law of reflection, played the "Hit the Target Game," and watched an invisibility cloaking video.

In "The Gender Game" students discussed, read about, and engaged with the idea of gender and role, particularly in the context of work. Class began with students identifying and comparing the jobs of their parents and grandparents with one another, specifically focusing on time and perceived gendered roles. Then, students read excerpts about women in the workforce. By the end of class, all students would have the opportunity to identify their own perceived roles.

"Parsing Primary Sources" spent the afternoon sifting through primary documents from the American Civil Rights era. In small groups, students had themed documents to analyze in terms of context, argument, meaning, etc. Examples of the themes groups were separated into were the Little Rock Nine and the March on Washington among others. 

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This afternoon in "Math, Statistics, and Game Theory," SEP 9-11 mathematicians learned how to use computer software to run statistical analysis of President Trump’s Twitter feed. Students worked as a class to analyze datasets and learn about which words were most commonly tweeted by the president, as well as taking a look at the correlation between the most tweeted words and other words. 

This Afternoon in "Electric and Autonomous Vehicles," SEP 9-11 students talked about the pros and cons of a world where people use autonomous vehicles as regular transportation. The class discussed the cost of human driving on society and how autonomous cars could help to improve these. Next, the class watched a TED Talk that illustrated how a switch to driverless cars would impact both the transportation and healthcare industry. 

Best,

Nicole, Olivia and Abby