RAISE Professional Development Day Schedule

Saturday January 22, 2005 (8:45am – 5:00 pm)

8:45 am

Breakfast/Contracts

All

9:10

Welcome

Prof. Kapila

9:15

Presentation on Sensors

Sookram Sobhan

9:45

Physics Experiment 1 Demo: Damped Vibration

Farhan Mudasir

10:00

Physics Activity 1: Accelerometer is used to observe damped vibration

Participants

11:00

Break

All

11:15

Physics Experiment 2 Demo: Light   . Brightness vs. Distance

Ilya Zarankin

11:30

Physics Activity 2: Light Sensor is used to establish the relationship between intensity and distance from light source

Participants

12:30

Lunch (Check out 2005 Future City Competition)

All

1:30

Physics Experiment 3 Demo: Magnetic Field of a Solenoid

Participants

2:00

Physics Activity 3: Magnetic Field Sensor is used to measure the magnetic field inside a solenoid

Sookram Sobhan

3:00

Break

All

3:15

Biology Presentation and Demo: Measuring Heart Rate using the EKG sensor

Edwin Yu/Meetu Walia

4:15

Questions and Discussion

All

4:45

Closing Remarks

Prof. Kapila

5:00 pm

Adjourn

All