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Michael Lampert
Michael Lampert

teaches MicroElectronics, Astronomy and Physics at West Salem High School in Salem, Oregon.

Jerone Mitchell
Jerone Mitchell

teaches AP Computer Science, AP Statistics, and Pre-AP Computer Science at W. T. White High School in Dallas, TX.

Brian McCombs
Brian McCombs

is the Mathematics Chairman at Theodore Roosevelt High School in Kent, Ohio.

Sharon Radford
Sharon Radford

teaches Introductory and Advanced Placement Biology at Paideia School in Atlanta, Georgia.

William Church
William Church

teaches Physics, Physical Science, and Robotics in Littleton, NH.

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William Church

William Church


Bill Church received his BS in Physics from Binghamton University in 1992. He received his MAT from Cornell in 1997. He is working on his PhD in Physics Education Research at Tufts University. He began his teaching career in Dover, NH in 1997 and currently teaches Physics, Physical Science, and Robotics in Littleton, NH. Bill has been using engineering design challenges and technology toolsets in his physics curriculum since 1997. His work has been supported by the Tufts Center for Engineering Educational Outreach, the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation's Christa McAuliffe Sabbatical program, the Lemelson-MIT program, NH SAU 35, North Country Educational Services, Antioch New England's COSEED project, and the General Electric ELFUN Foundation.  Bill lives with his amazing wife and two incredible daughters in the mountains of New Hampshire.

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In Your Classroom: "Luis von Ahn & Human Computation"

by William Church     Department: In Your Classroom
04.16.08
In his demonstration of captcha’s, those ubiquitous pattern recognition challenges we face when we need to authenticate ourselves as humans on the internet, Luis von Ahn describes challenges computers have with images. He talks specifically about two very tough problems, optical character recognition (OCR) and labeling images with words. By presenting humans with activities such as solving captchas to create a new yahoo account or image labeling games such as ESP, von Ahn is orchestrating a grand teaching experiment -- teaching computers about image recognition through many millions of hours of online work and play.
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In Your Classroom: "The Quiet Zone"

by William Church     Department: In Your Classroom
03.28.08
For this installment of the "In Your Classroom" blog, I would like to share with you two examples of projects related to remote data collection. The example projects are a high school robotics project using LEGO Mindstorms robots, Vernier sensors, and video instant messaging technology to collect data on "Mars" and an elementary school project using the same technology for a simulated marine biology expedition.
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In Your Classroom: "Dangerous Science"

by William Church     Department: In Your Classroom
01.24.08
Like many who watched this segment, I remember home chemistry kits of the kind described. I did not have a chance to experiment with them as I was the youngest in my family and the kit belonged to the oldest. By the time I was old enough to explore the kit's box, its contents had long been depleted during many exciting scientific and engineering explorations.
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In Your Classroom: RoboDoc

by William Church     Department: In Your Classroom
11.28.07
The "WIRED Science" segment on the Da Vinci robotic operating system offers us an excellent opportunity to explore some robotic classroom activities. While I do NOT have any links or ideas to share related to robotic dissection labs for Biology class, I do have plenty of links and idea to share related to robotics in the classroom. If robots are the wave of the future in the operating room, robots are the wave of the present in classrooms. There are many many amazing learning opportunities to be found through present classroom technology.
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In Your Classroom: Experiment Cave

by William Church     Department: In Your Classroom
10.21.07
First, let's wrestle with some numbers. 6,800 feet. That is the approximate depth to which researchers drop when they go to work looking for neutrinos. Before we even start to think about neutrinos and what they are and how on earth we are going to explain this to our students, let us focus on the place of the research. Imagine being a particle physicist or astrophysicist and this is where you show up to work each day. You pull into the SNOLAB parking lot, put on your mine traversing garb, walk to the 30 mph elevator (holy fast Batman!) and dive 6,800 feet toward the center of the earth. Before you get out, you note that while you may think you are almost to the center of the earth, you'd have to travel about 5.5 days at 30 mph to actually get to the center which is about 21 million feet below the surface.
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