Outreach

Hackathon with GEMS

Posted in News, Outreach

Mackenzie Gavery helps put on a Hackathon with the middle school girls at GEMS. They wrote code for making various patterns of stacked cups. A little buggy, but overall they did awesome!  For this activity one girl was the ‘robot’ and went to a different area of the room while the other girls coded. They had 6 different commands and they were given images of patterns of stacked cups. When they were done writing the code, the robot would come over and read the code to build the pattern.. sometimes it took a little debugging to get it right After a few simple patterns they...

Steven on the Science Online Altmetrics Panel

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circa 2013 scienceonline on livestream.com. Broadcast Live...

Data and Resource Sharing Plan

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It is the philosophy of the group to make data available to the widest potential audience in a timely manner. Data Sharing Routine Activity Research activities will be recorded daily in online lab notebooks. Lab notebooks can be maintained in various platforms including Evernote, Wikispaces, IPython, and GitHub. Noteboooks will be made centrally accessible at genefish.wikispaces.com. Product Publication All published data will be submitted to journals indexed by the major biomedical indexing sites including PubMed and PubMed Central. In instances where a publisher version of a publication...

Steven Roberts an openscientist in action! by HackYourPhd

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FISH310 for 2nd Graders

Posted in Outreach, tumblelog

This has been reposted from our lab tumblelog A few weeks ago I went to Wilkes Elementary to give a presentation and show the students some marine invertebrates. I used some of the more charismatic examples from FISH310 and the kids were extremely knowledgable and full of questions. I easily had more student interaction in that one hour than 10 weeks in my college course!  Below is a post from Mrs. Spickard’s blog on my visit. Marine Science with Mr. Roberts Posted by Laurie Spickard at 5/21/2013 Mr. Roberts came to share his marine science expertise with us!  We thank you for taking...

Tenure Package [SB Roberts]

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If anyone is interested in what a tenure package looks like (I know I could have benefited from a few more examples) I am making mine available here. Below is one of the tables I included, an attempt to quantify online science...