NOTE! This is NOT the Duke TIP website! This page provides information on a program conducted FOR TIP BY Shodor several years ago. The Duke TIP website is at http://www.tip.duke.edu

• The TIP Tapper -- A look at the Summer, 1999 Modeling Your World session.
• The TIP Tapper -- Summer, 1997's log of the Modeling Your World session.
• The Official Site of the Duke Talent Identification Program
• Educational resources used for Modeling Our World:
• Document used for A National Tournament
• An examination of The Look and Feel of Zero

What is The Duke University Talent Identification Program?

Quoting from the program's own site, TIP is a:

"...non-profit educational organization founded in 1980 through a grant from the Duke Endowment. TIP has become a major leader in identifying and serving the educational needs of the brightest of America's youth. Since 1980 over 700,000 students have benefited from one or more of TIP's programs."

Because of the close proximity of Duke University's East Campus, The Shodor Education Foundation, Inc. is an ideal site for students participating in this program.

The TIP curriculum offered by the Foundation, Modeling Our World, reflects the role that the Foundation has established for itself in the world of education. Shodor has developed a variety of web-based tools and applications which allow students to model the world. Again, quoting from TIP's own site:

"This course introduces students to the world of computational science, the application of computers, communication technologies, and mathematics to the study of interesting scientific problems. In this hands-on, interactive course students will learn a wide variety of computer programming and mathematical methods which will be used to create simulations of events in chemistry, physics, biology, and the environmental sciences. An introduction to computer graphics and scientific visualization of data will comprise a significant part of this course. Students will work collaboratively in research teams and have the opportunity to use a wide variety of computing platforms and tools - brain cells, pencil and paper, hand calculators, desktop computers and common software packages, and high-performance scientific workstations and supercomputers. Knowledge of a programming language is helpful but not required."