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 public, selective, residential 10th-12th grade institution in Aurora, Illinois. We were the first high school chapter in the world.

Projects

Ongoing Projects

• IMSA Service Model Research Project
• Intersession 2009: ILXO Deployment in Boston, MA
• Organizing a Chicago area bulk purchase
• Setting up an Off grid power test lab
• 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

• Organizing a summer research group
• 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
• Presenting at TECH2008 on May 7 in Springfield, IL (accepted, but TECH2008 was cancelled)
• Ran a student showcase session at NECC 2008 in San Antonio, TX
• Ran a BoF at NECC 2008 in San Antonio, TX
• Presented at K12OMC in September, 2008 in Indianapolis, IN

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 they'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/IMSA Information and Technology Services (ITS)	None	N/A	blue/purple
imsa	G1	ITS (Donated by Jim Gerry)	None	N/A	light blue/blue
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 Gabi, Kevin, Arjun, or Scott. We also maintain an IRC channel, #olpc-imsa, on freenode.

Members

Co-chairs-

• 2008-2009: Kevin Crews, Arjun Nayini, and Gabi Heller.
• 2007-2008: April-Hope W. and Kevin Crews.

Collaborators- Meg Welter, Kyle Hanson, Sanat Bhole, Colin Dodson, Ariel Liu, Jason Rock, Justin Johnson, Spencer Andrews, Grant Rotskoff, Will Getz, Andrew Ericson, 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, Sid Sapru, Saurin Shah. If you are interested in becoming a member, contact Kevin at kcrews@imsa.edu.

Advisors- Scott Swanson and Jim Gerry

Past Advisors- Brian Sea

Founders- April-Hope W. and Kevin Crews

Meeting minutes

• 2008 Jul 07