2025 Siena College Coding Workshop

 

Day 1

Session 1

9:00 Welcome

  • Stipends → attendance
    • Call Anne Zakas and give SSN 
    • 574-631-2789 Encrypted and such
  • Wifi
  • Introductions
  • IRIS-HEP
  • Grad Credit through St. Francis University
  • CTLE Credit

 

9:45 Norms discussion and activity

 

10:15 Our philosophy re:coding

 

10:25 Driver/navigator time

 

12:00 Lunch Break

Session 2

1:00 Share out of probability notebooks

  • Upload notebooks here
  • Share observations, challenges
  • How do you think your students would handle these tasks?

Continue driver/nav work from session 1. 

 

2:30

 

 

3:45 All hands meeting

Day 2

Session 1

9:00 All Hands meeting

  • Successes / challenges from yesterday’s notebooks 
  • Share out of position notebooks
  • Why python?
  • Numpy and Pandas- are they widely used?

 

9:30 Particle Identity 

 

9:35 CMS Experiment review

        Ana Maria's slides (Copy of AMS’s slides)

 

Processing LHC Data - great video!


 

10:15 Start on this notebook: Calculate the mass of a muon using CMS data.



 

12:00 Lunch Break

Session 2

1:00 Data Science @ Siena

 

2:00  Switch to Teacher Hat mode

 

2:30 Work solo or in groups

 

3:45 All Hands Meeting

 

Day 3

Session 1

 

9:00 All Hands

  • Thoughts from yesterday
  • Storing & Accessing Files
    • Google Drive
    • Github
    • Local Files
  • How to do this without Google access?

 

9:15 Continue working on implementation plan

  • Brainstorm and data search
  • Develop a plan for implementation with your students
  • Use whatever format or structure you’d like
  • A good place to include your implementation plan is in your coding notebook.
  • Be prepared to have others look at your implementation plan and coding activity during Session 2.
  • Elevate your notebook for students
  • Upload your implementation plan here

 

When you need a mental break today, please fill out these two forms

  1. Registration (2 minutes)
    1. For QuarkNet center put other
  2. Survey (15-20 minutes)
    1. You won’t be able to answer all the questions, that’s ok!


 

Extra HS math notebook: What if it has infinite sides? Polygon exploration 


 

12:30 Lunch Break (everyone together)

Session 2

1:30 Share plans for implementation

  • Each camper shares their lesson concept and notebook. Others participate as a student might.
  • Others provide comments/feedback
  • The author can make their own notes with comments/feedback.

 

2:30  Introduction to QuarkNet

 

3:15 Resources

 

Other Fun Stuff


 

3:45 Housekeeping and sign off