Resources

Careers

• Science Careers has teamed up with some great organizations to bring you information about the latest career opportunities in many different fields.
• Careers in Science from Science Buddies
• Career One Stop Pathways to Career Success
• Considering a career in data science? Wondering what exactly that entails? Learn more.
• New Mexico Workforce Connection (Click on Find a Job under Services for Job Seekers.)
• Mapping Your Future
• Spanish version of Mapping Your Future
• IEEE's Try Computing site. Computing encompasses all aspects of creating and operating computer software and systems to benefit the world around us.
• Career resources for women in the gaming industry.

Climate Change

• Achieving a Just and Sustainable Long-Term Energy Plan, Dr. James Conca, Director Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring and Research Center Institute for Energy and the Environment, New Mexico State University (86 meg ppt file)
• New Mexico Climate Center
• Climate Time Machine -- NASA, Explore Climate change over time -- Sea Ice, Sea Level, Carbon Emissions, Avg Global Temp
• Community Earth System Model Links to many climate studies and news stories
• NASA's Climate Page Many interactive exercises and video presentations. Up to date news stories and visualizations.
• Climate Connections at NPR - A Global Story (Interactive)
• Climate Connections at NPR - Causes, Signs, Solutions...etc.
• National Academy of Sciences - America's Climate Choices Reports, videos, podcasts, books
• Global Climate Modeling-Learn to use EdGCM Global Climate Modeling program and apply it to your own simulation of climate change.
• Climate impacts on species
• What we know about climate change (video)

Colleges

• My College Connection My College Options is a FREE college planning service, offering assistance to students, parents, high schools, counselors, and teachers nationwide. It is designed to assist high school students in exploring a wide range of post-secondary opportunities, with special emphasis on the college search process.
• Online Computer Science Degree Options
• Preparing for Computer Science Before College
• The advantages of a masters degree in computer science
• Online Computer Science Degree Programs Directory Start here for expert advice, career data, degree info and hundreds of resources to help current and future tech talent build a better tomorrow.

Competitions and Contests

• American Computer Science League
• Earth Science Week contests
• Institute of Competition Sciences The home of challenge based learning.
• Pivot, Find a Challenge Pivot helps students develop the practical, hands-on skills that are essential to succeed in cybersecurity jobs and careers. Challenges build on the knowledge gained in classes and are offered in multiple domains and difficulty levels. And they’re all free.

Complex Systems

• What is a Complex System?
• Why do we study complexity?
• Complex Systems (journal publication)

Computational Thinking

• Exploring Computational Thinking

Computer Languages

• Learn about different, useful programming languages at Learn to Code. It has a useful chart at the bottom to help you decide what language will help you the most, depending on your goals.
• Different Paradigms of Programming Languages.

Computer Science

• Computer Science Teachers Association
• Computer Science Unplugged is a free collection of activities and ideas for learning about Computer Science without using a computer.
• Computer Science Degrees & Resources Online A website with lots of resources, maintained by librarians.
• Kids and Computer Science

Critical Thinking

• The Ultimate Cheatsheet for Critical Thinking
  Want to exercise critical thinking skills? Ask these questions whenever you discover or discuss new information. These are broad and versatile questions that have limitless appliations!

Data Science

• Data Science Articles from University of California at Riverside which has an online Master's degree in Engineering
• Guide covering data science and sustainability - https://www.discoverdatascience.org/resources/data-science-and-sustainability
• Masters in data science guide - https://www.discoverdatascience.org/programs/masters-in-data-science
• Data Science MBA Guide - https://www.discoverdatascience.org/programs/mba-data-science

Email, Hoaxes and Netiquette

• Snopes Urban Legends Reference Pages
• The Core Rules of Netiquette

Environmental Modeling

• Global Climate Modeling-Learn to use EdGCM Global Climate Modeling program and apply it to your own simulation of climate change.
• New Mexico Natural Resources Conservation Service-Information about conservation data.
• Soil Surveys-The United States Department of Agriculture-Natural Resources Conservation Service is the federal agency that conducts and publishes soil surveys in the United States.
• Read several articles about Water Conservation, Water to Snowflakes, the Water Cycle, Water Conducitivity, the Properties of Water, a Water Crisis, Water Facts and Erosion.

Epidemiology

• A wealth of data for epidemiology projects. Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have published more than a century's worth of data on scores of infectious diseases they compiled while putting together computer models and simulations for research.

Equity Resources

• Network for Women in Science and Engineering Note Expanding Your Horizons and Careers" Exploring the Possibilities
• Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
• Equity Begins with Recognizing Diversity
• The promotion of Women in computer science
• Resources for Women in Computer Technology

Ethics

• Ethics in the Age of Napster and MP3
• Editorial Cartoons and MP3

Kickoff Conference Class Material

• See the Kickoff link for each specific year.

High Performance Computing

• HPC Wire, news from the HPC world
• Oak Ridge National Lab - Climate Change Science Institute

Math modeling

• Computational Science Education Reference Desk
• Experiments with MATLAB is an electronic book with chapters that supplement high school and early college courses in mathematics and technical computing, including calculus and matrix theory.
• See STI 2004 links
• New Mexico Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Mathematics

• TED Talks: Math class needs a makeover Mathematics explorations and scafflolding

Consulting-Mentors

Over the past several years, students have found greater success when they ask adults to consult instead of mentor. The term mentor implies a large and long time commitment. The term consultant suggests that the assistance is required only when teams solicit it. To busy professionals, a time commitment with well-defined limits may be appealing and offer a welcome opportunity for professional community service.

For Teams

• Choose a Mentor
• Check out New Mexico STEM-H Connection a statewide collaborative effort to promote STEM education in New Mexico.
• Science Buddies Ask an Expert: Answers to Your Science Questions

For Mentors

• Email consult saying you would like to become a Challenge Mentor
• The Role of a Challenge Mentor
• Questions to discuss with a team.

NetLogo

• NetLogo is a cross-platform multi-agent programmable modeling environment.
• How to Install Netlogo for Linux on a Chromebook

Physics

• Newton's Laws Of Motion - Learn About Auto Physics!
• Physics Forums - The Fusion of Science and Community

Presentation

• How to be graceful under pressure
• Scoring Power Points how to avoid PowerPointlessness.
• Effective Presentations PPT from STI 2001

Programming

• Bootstrap, Algebraic Videogame Programming
• Codecademy - Interactive tutorials teach JavaScript, Python, Ruby, HTML, and more
• Scratch (from MIT) The most popular coding platform for kids (even elementary school)
• KhanAcademy Learn almost anything for free
• Glitch is the friendly community where everyone builds the web.
• Code.org a non-profit foundation dedicated to growing computer programming education
• Tynker Coding for Kids (requires registration and a small fee.
• Python.org's Tutorials
• Learn Python.org
• Tutorialspoint's Python Tutorials
• Python Courses from Coursera
• codeSpark Academy The Foos is the most fun way for kids to learn coding and computer science.
• Codio Helping you to teach computer science
• CodeHS The Best Way To Teach Coding in Your School
• Made with Code Things you love are Made w/ Code

Project Ideas

• What Makes a Good Project

Quantum Computing

• Quantum Computing from IBM Research
• IBM Quantum

Research

• Big Six Approach to Information Problem Solving
• Web Resources for Computer Science Education

Science Resources

• Science.gov - The U.S. government's one-stop searchable portal to major science databases of federal science agencies
• WorldWideScience.org is a global science gateway—accelerating scientific discovery and progress through a multilateral partnership to enable federated searching of national and international scientific databases and portals.
• The Fractal Foundation Inspiring Interest in Science, Math & Art.
• Highlights for High School from MIT features more than 2,600 video and audio clips, animations, lecture notes and assignments taken from actual MIT courses, and categorizes them to match the Advanced Placement physics, biology and calculus curricula. Demonstrations, simulations, animations and videos give educators engaging ways to present STEM concepts, while videos illustrate MIT's hands-on approach to the teaching of these subjects.
• The Macrogalleria-A cyberwonderland of polymer fun.
• The Molecular Workbench Project -The Molecular Workbench is a molecular simulation engine developed for the project. It is a professional tool for generating model-based activities, and for annotating and sharing them among students. See the Review of it.
• Daylight Chemical Information Systems
  • SMILES language
• Gallery of Data Visualization -Displays some examples of the Best and Worst of Statistical Graphics, with the view that the contrast may be useful, inform current practice, and provide some pointers to both historical and current work.
• Web Resources for Computer Science Education
• Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
• Current best practices in math and science at the Concord Consortium

Standards

• New Mexico Content Standards and Benchmarks
• Common Core State Standards
• CSTA K-12 Computer Science Standards
• International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Standards

Star Logo

• On-Line Guide for Newcomers to Agent-Based Modeling in the Social Sciences
• See STI 2004 links
• StarLogo TNG software
• StarLogo Nova

STEM TV Programs

• STEM TV Movie Guide Inspirational STEM Movies and TV Shows to Supplement Your Student's Learning

Summer Programs

• NASA Science Mission Directorate Applied Sciences training and development program.
• Summer Science Program
• Research Science Institute Each summer, 80 of the world's most accomplished high school students gather at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the Research Science Institute (RSI). Invited students enjoy a six-week, cost-free program designed to kick-start their careers of leadership in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology.
• AFRL Phillips Scholars Program
• Space Camp at the US Space and Rocket Center, Huntsville, AL for kids 9 - 17. Scholarships are available that covers tuition, room and board. Parents have to deal with transportation.
• Summer Jobs at Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Summer Jobs at Sandia National Laboratories

Supercomputing Resources

• The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies--This is a collection of bibliographies of scientific literature in computer science from various sources, covering most aspects of computer science.
• ChemViz -links to lesson plans with the power of the SGI/Cray Power Challenge supercomputing with the graphics and ease of use capabilities of the personal computer enabling students to use computational chemistry as a technique to better various abstract concepts, such as ionization energy, chemical bonding, periodic properties, and atomic and molecular orbitals.
• National Computational Science Alliance offers high-performance computing and communications resources, serving over 6000 users at more than 380 universities and corporations.
• Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center provides information about their projects, including educational efforts.
• Cornell University Center for Advanced Computing Home page offers a variety of information, including educational programs appropriate for elementary and secondary level science education.

Team Work

• Teampedia-Tools for Teams

Technical Assistance

• Challenge Technical Guide - Includes information and tutorials on the following topics: supercomputing, project design, telnet, Unix, Pico, C++, Java, Graphics, e-mail, ftp, HTML, Perl, and MPI

Thinking Parallel

• Thinking Parallel Exercises These role playing activities are designed to get you to start thinking in parallel.

Weather Resources

• National Weather Service Southwest Region Headquarters
• Current seasonal forecasts from NOAA's Climate Prediction Center
• The National Drought Mitigation Center (U Nebraska)
• Western Regional Climate Center
• Climate.gov teaching resources

Writing Reports

• Nicholas Kutac's Technical Report Writing Workshop slides (.pdf) given on March 27, 2021. Watch the Zoom session.
• Writing Tips and Tricks (.ppt)
• Report Process Guide (.doc)
• Challenge Report Template (.doc)
• Citation Machine
• English Usage Site, which word to use??
• How to Efficiently Write a Technical Report (.pdf)
• How to Organize your Computer Science Research Paper (.pdf)
• Ward off Plagiarism: Articles on Plagiarism