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Mainland Short Course

Immerse in 6-week internships, labs, and field trips at top sites for 15 students yearly. Enhance research skills, science writing, and community engagement for a rich learning experience. Schedule includes optics, research practices, eye anatomy, and more.

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Mainland Short Course

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  1. Mainland Short Course Shelley Wright and Mark Ammons

  2. Format for Mainland Internship Program (1) Short Course in vision science/astronomy- 5 to 6 days at CfAO (2) Internship at University or National Lab - 6 weeks (3) Technical Presentation at CfAO Summer School - 3 days Past Internships Sites: UCSC, UCLA, LLNL, Houston, Indiana, Rochester, UCB, UCD, JPL Total ~ 15 students per summer

  3. 1. Background Knowledge 2. Enhance Research Skills 3. Practice Writing Science 4. Harbor CfAO Community 5. Fun with Science Short Course Goals

  4. Short Course Evolves Yearly 2006 Curriculum Director: Lisa Hunter Course Coordinator: Hilary O’Bryan Education Coordinator: Malika Moutawakkil Instructors: Mark Ammons (Lead), Oscar Azucena, Bautista Fernandez, Elise Laird, Ethan Rossi ==> 2 Astronomers / 1 Vision Scientist / 2 Electrical Engineers • Original curriculum designed by Matthew Barczys, Seth Hornstein, • and Lynne Raschke’s in 2001 - Now walk through the day and life of the Short Course . . .

  5. Life of MSC Instructors • Each Activity is assigned to lead instructor(s) • All instructors (vision science & astronomy) meet bi-weekly / weekly • In weekly meetings we slowly go over each activity - to ensure instructors understand the activities - to go over last years feedback of activities - to improve activities - and to create new activities Now walk through the day and life of the Short Course . . .

  6. Mainland Short Course Schedule Day 0 - Welcome! • Check into Dorms • Welcome & Icebreaker • Dinner Together Day 1 • Program Overview - 2 hours • Introduction to AO - 1 hour • Basics of Optics - 2 hours • Optics of Eye - 2 hours

  7. Mainland Short Course Schedule Day 2 • Research Practices Game – 1 hour • Anatomy of an Abstract - 1 hour • Engineering Inquiry - 4 hours • Color, Light, and Spectra Inquiry part I - 2 hours

  8. Mainland Short Course Schedule Day 3 • • Color, Light and Spectra Inquiry part II - 3 hours • • What’s so exciting about Astronomy? • - 1 ½ hours • Lick Observatory Field Trip! (evening)

  9. Mainland Short Course Schedule Day 4 • AO Demonstrator and Lab Tour – 1 hour • Data Analysis & Interpretation Activity - 1 1/2 hours • Retinal Anatomy Inquiry - 3 hours

  10. Mainland Short Course Schedule Day 5 • • Color Visions and Illusions – 2 hours • Discussion of Writing Assignment – 1 hour • Scientific Reasoning Study – 3 hours • Beach Bonfire!

  11. New Activities (2006) • Color Vision and Illusions (Ethan) • Using Matlab to interpret wavefront of the eye (Oscar, Ethan, and Bautista) • Engineering Activity (Oscar, Bautista, and Mark)

  12. Beyond the Short Course • Off to their internship sites for 6 weeks • Weekly meetings with Education Coordinators (Malika) • Abstract Writing • Presentation Preparation • Science communication among their peers

  13. Intern's Project Presentations • At the end of the 6 week internship they present their results at the CfAO Summer School

  14. CfAO has a Community & Resource

  15. In Summary . . . • An exceptional experience !!! - Provides general background - Forms a community - Gives students confidence in science - And it’s FUN! • Gives instructors superb hands-on experience in designing activities and teaching!

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