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Primary Project Workshop III

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November 18 - 21, 2004 at the University of Mississippi

This workshop was already held. Two photo albums exist: here and here.

Schedule

The workshop schedule, with links to the presentation materials.

Thursday Night

Time
Activity
Location
6:00 - 9:00
 Dinner (on your own) Shuttles to Square  
8:00 - 11:00
 Hosptality Suite gathering spot for people as they arrive Inn at Ole Miss  

Friday
Time
Activity
Location
Presenter
7:00 - 8:15
 Continental Breakfast Inn at Ole Miss  
8:30 - 9:00
 Introductions and Setup Weir Hall 227 P. Lawhead
9:00 - 10:00
Introduction to Mindstorms Weir Hall 227 M. McNally
10:00 - 10:15
 Break and Pass Out Kits Weir Hall 225  
10:15 - 11:00
 Building Lego Robots Weir Hall 227 P. Lawhead
11:00 - 12:00
 Java, Lejos etc. Weir Hall 227 P. Lawhead
12:00 - 1:00
 Lunch UM Circle  
1:00 - 2:15
 Java, Part 2 Weir Hall 227 P. Lawhead
2:15 - 3:30
 Legos, Java and Programming Languages Weir Hall 227 L. Paris
3:30 - 3:45
 Break Weir Hall 225  
3:45 - 5:00
 Legos, Java and Networks Weir Hall 227 R. Darbhamulla
5:00 - 5:30
 Free Time    
5:30 - ?
Dinner at Old Taylor Grocery Shuttles at Inn at Ole Miss  

Saturday
Time
Activity
Location
Presenter
7:00 - 8:15
 Continental Breakfast Inn at Ole Miss  
8:15 - 10:15
 Robotic Navigation Weir Hall 227 L. Greenwald
10:15 - 10:30
 Break Weir Hall 225  
10:30 - 12:30
 Legos and AI Weir Hall 227 A. Kumar
12:30 - 1:30
 Lunch Depot  
1:30 - 2:45
 The Turtle Lab Sequence Weir Hall 227 M. McNally
2:45 - 3:00
 Break Weir Hall 225  
3:00 - 4:30
 Robotics and Data Structures Weir Hall 227 M. McNally
4:30 - 5:30
 Creating Assignments Weir Hall 227 P. Lawhead
5:30 - 6:30
 Free Time    
6:30 - ?
Dinner Depot  

Sunday
Time
Activity
Location
Presenter
7:00 - 8:15
 Continental Breakfast Inn at Ole Miss  
8:30 - 9:45
 Alternative Programming Languages Weir Hall 227 M. McNally
9:45 - 10:00
 Break Weir Hall 225  
10:00 - 11:00
 Curricular Ideas, Advanced Topics, Wrap up, Evaluation Weir Hall 227 P. Lawhead

© 2001, 2004 by Scott Anderson, Frank Klassner, Pam Lawhead, and Myles McNally. This work is supported by NSF grants 0088884 and 0306096. Permission to use, copy, adapt and modify these materials for instructional purposes is granted. These materials can be obtained from our web site www.mcs.alma.edu/LMICSE. If you have suggestions for improvement, please contact us via the web site; we would really appreciate it. This file was last modified on April 21, 2006.