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• November 5th, 2011

  Last Saturday was our first meeting for the Shodor Apprenticeship Program. Ernie went over the Apprenticeship Program Handbook. This was full of the rules and guidelines for the Program. We then had Joel teach us some command lines to work on our webpage through terminal. We then set up an account for Spark and the Roundcube email to converse with our mentors and other students.
  November 12th, 2011

  Today was the second meeting of the Shodor Apprenticeship Program 2012. We got our first project today. It was to create our own websites by following a set of guidelines on the packet. We are supposed to have an index page, a portfolio page, and a blog page.
  November 19th, 2011

  Today was our third meeting of the Apprenticeship Program. Today Dr.Panoff came to talk to us about how you can get many different answers based on how you look and interpret something. Afterwards, Ron Broadnax and Cameron gave us a powerpoint presentation on office ethics. We were assigned a homework assignment on office ethics.
  December 3th, 2011

  Today Jeff came and talked to us about the "how do you know" unit. This was very interesting because we started making simulations using Agent Sheets. We also used Excel to create graphs and compile data.
  December 10th, 2011

  We continued the "how do you know" unit. We worked on using factors in agent sheets to change the outcome of the situation. We then got into groups and made our own agent sheets model. We also used the data from everyone's group to compile a graph on excel. We then downloaded some data to work with on excel. We created a graph and a slider bar to modify the data on excel.
  December 17th, 2011

  Today was the last Shodor session of the year since it would be closed over the holidays. We resumed our modeling unit with Jeff and we worked with agent sheets to create our own simulation of choice. Vatsal and I worked together to create a simulation of the spread of malaria.
  January 14, 2012

  Today we came back to Shodor after a three week break. Ernie made us start a modeling project that we had to do with the things that we learned over the past two months. We broke up into groups and began work on it. I paired up with Vatsal Parikh and Leon Copeland. We created a basis for our project, which included creating the depictions and primary behaviors.
  January 22, 2012

  Today was the 9th week of the Apprentice Program at Shodor.Vatsal, Leon, and I were working on our Agent Sheets Model. This was part of our Team Project that is due next week. After lunch, Rob Hochberg came to talk to us about probability. It was very interesting and I would like to learn more about it in the future.
  January 28, 2012

  Today was a very productive and interesting day. Ernie was not here today so Trey and Aaron were helping us. Leon, Vatsal, and I finished working on our team project. It worked very well. We created a team website and a presentation to accompany the agent sheets project and the vensim project.