Illinois Math and Science Academy Chapter

This is the wiki-homepage of the Illinois Math and Science Academy Chapter. We are similar to a University chapter; however, we are a high school in Aurora, Illinois.

Projects

Ongoing Projects

• Organizing a Chicago area bulk purchase
• Setting up an Off grid power test lab
• IMSA Service Model Research Project
• Letter witting campaign for low cost laptop bill

Small group projects

We are working in small groups on a few separate experiments. Many were started during our intersession week of January 7-11, 2008.

• EKG module
• Measure and the scientific method
• time activity

Chapter Wide Goals

• Presenting at TECH2008 on May 7 in Springfield, IL (accepted, but TECH2008 was cancelled)
• Organizing a summer research group
• Running a student showcase session at NECC 2008 in San Antonio, TX (accepted!)
• Running a BoF at NECC 2008 in San Antonio, TX (accepted!)
• Developing an after-school program for Elementary Students near IMSA
• Evangelizing more K-12 chapters around the world

Completed Projects

• Presented at the ILCTO meeting in November 2007
• Distance
  • Debugging and Calibration
• Rewrote Emulating_the_XO/Quick_Start/Windows in January 2008
• Presented at the Chicago OLPC Grassroots Group meeting in January 2008
• Presented at IL-TCE in February 2008

XOs on campus

There are currently 19 XOs on IMSA's campus, but not all of them work properly. If you are interested in playing with a machine, or in helping to fix machines as a part of [IMSA Service Model Research Project] contact April-Hope, Kevin or Scott Swanson. You can also just come up to ITS (B205) sometime during the day, before 4:30 (or jabber Scott or April-Hope to see if either is still on campus after 4:30, which happens more often than he'd like to admit). If you are at home during the summer and interested in working with us, still let one of us know; we might be able to arrange something!

List of XOs on IMSA Campus

Machine Name	Machine Model	With Whom	Problems	Who Has Tried to Fix It in the Past	Colors (head/body)
scott	G1	Scott/ITS	None	N/A	blue/purple
imsa	G1	ITS (Donated by Jim)	None	N/A	light blue/blue
Jim Strasma	G1	ITS (Short-term loan by Jim Strasma)	None	N/A	maroon/turquoise
ahw	G1	April-Hope (personal machine--ask for it; it's at home)	None	N/A	blue/yellow
harper	B2	ITS (Donated by Google Chicago)	None	N/A	N/A
	B2	ITS (Donated by Google Chicago)	None	N/A	N/A
trow	B4	ITS (Donated by Google)	None	N/A	blue/light blue
yare	G1	ITS*	Enter key torn.	ahw	yellow/maroon
imsa2	G1	ITS*	None (No longer WP?)	ahw	orange/orange
N/A	G1	ITS*	DEAD	N/A	blue/yellow
N/A	G1	ITS*	Half display black.	Ruhiyyeh	green/purple
grainger	G1	ITS*	Keyboard software issue.	Sammy N. and Travis Mui	red/green
N/A	G1	ITS*	Boot Fail	N/A	light blue/light blue
N/A	G1	ITS*	DOA	N/A	maroon/blue
BOGEY	G1	ITS*	Keyboard issue?	Kevin	turquoise/green
SPECTER	G1	ITS*	Bad keypad.	Ross?	peat/blue
entelec	G1	ITS*	Keyboard issue.	Kevin?	peat/light green
nopond	G1	ITS*	Keyboard issue?	Kevin?	purple/yellow
maxmcgee	G1	ITS*	Stuck CTRL key.	Kevin?	light blue/peat

For reference, [*] means that the XO is part of our IMSA Service Model Research Project.

If you are an XO owner and live in the Aurora area, and are willing to lend your XO to IMSA for special projects temporarily, please contact Scott Swanson. We would be forever grateful!

Contact Information

Try April-Hope, Kevin or Scott. We also maintain an IRC channel, #olpc-imsa, on freenode.

Members

Co-chairs- April-Hope W. and Kevin Crews

Collaborators- Meg Welter, Arjun Nayini, Kyle Hanson, Sanat Bhole, Gabi Heller, Colin Dodson, Ariel Liu, Jason Rock, Justin Johnson, Spencer Andrews, Grant Rotskoff, Will Getz, Kelly Zhang, Hannah Reiser, Mitra Veeramasuneni, Bob Lee, Tony Yunker, Adam Novak, Will Hahne, Cora Goldston, Ruhiyyeh Turner, Chris Gropp, Daniel Geiger, Liam Hession, Alex Jeria, Arika Verma, Shyam Saladi, and Ilya Nepomnyashchiy. If you are interested in becoming a member, contact Kevin at kcrews@imsa.edu.

Advisors- Scott Swanson, Jim Gerry, and Brian Sea.