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 writing 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 Number	Machine Model	With Whom	Problems	Colors (head/body)
1	G1	Alex Goins	Extra antenna	Cyan/Cyan
2	G1	Mirae	None	Blue/Light Green
3	G1	Christine	None	Light Green/Blue
4	G1	Miles	None	Yellow/Red
5	G1	Marat	None	Light Blue/Green
6	G1	Derrick	None	Dark Green/Teal
7	G1	Aditya	None	Yellow/Red
8	G1	Nilesh	None	Orange/Purple
9	B4	Nilesh	Beta	N/A
10	G1	Erik	None	Turquoise/Purple
11	G1	Risun	Pending modification	Green/Green
12	G1	Yusuf	None	Light Blue/Blue
13	G1	Egle	None	Red/Blue
14	G1	Grace	None	Blue/Blue
15	G1	Eunji	None	Purple/Yellow
16	G1	Uchenna	None	Navy/Teal
17	G1	Gus	None	Light Orange/Dark Orange
18+	G1	Jim	Need inventory	N/A

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 Heller, Alex Goins, Jim Gerry, or Scott Swanson. We also maintain an IRC channel, #olpc-imsa, on freenode.

Members

Chairman-

• 2009-2010: Alex Goins

Board-

• 2009-2010: Sara Akgul, Jason Olson, Gabi Heller, Vlad Kontsevoi, Varun Pilla

Co-Chairs (Deprecated)-

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

Collaborators- Uchenna Agwuncha, Chrissy Mourafetis, Nilesh Kavthekar, Courtney Smith, Lydia Matthews, Maunie Hayat, Monica Kozbial, Marat Purnyn, Upashruti Agrawal, Xiaoyu Li, Natasha Arvanitis, Richard Song, Justin Novak, Diliana Dimitrova, Yusuf Aktan, Erik Guo, Nhan Huynh, Jelani Rowland, Dorcas Washington

If you are interested in becoming a member, contact Alex at [1].

Advisers- Scott Swanson and Jim Gerry

Past Advisors- Brian Sea

Founders- April-Hope W. and Kevin Crews