• April 17, 2026 (Friday)
    • See poster and symposium info below
    • Demo 3 next Thursday
  • April 15, 2026 (Wednesday)
    • Demo day 2! Send video if not present in class please.
    • Poster early draft due April 24. Templates/samples: Template 1
    • Symposium Sign up on this form due May 1. You need your abstract and to know your availability on May 28 both day and evening.
  • February 4, 2026 (Wednesday)
    • 2 hr delay
    • Talks today: Jahnavi, Anik, Brandon, Ajay, Matt (may not get to all)
    • Please Add your talk to this form now
  • February 2, 2026 (Monday)
    • 2 hr delay
    • Journal due
    • Talks start Wednesday
  • January 22, 2025 (Thursday)
    • Important info about talks
    • Tuesday: Jahnavi, Anik, Brandon, Ajay, Matt
    • Thursday: Pranav, Aryan, Brian, Rhea, Anna
    • Slides are due next week UNLESS all internet and power on the East Coast are down
    • Your next journal date is Tuesday which will probably be cancelled! So whenever we come back, please turn in a journal about what you did this week plus anything between now and the next time I see you.
  • January 20, 2026 (Tuesday)

    • Semester presentations next week! Even if it snows, slides are due.

  • December 2, 2025 (Tuesday)
    • 2 hour delay
    • Make-up presentations
    • Turkey goal due date, as part of Journal 13
  • Thanksgiving Break!
  • November 25, 2025 (Tuesday)
    • Competitive turkey carving
  • November 21, 2025 (Friday)
    • Presentations!
    • Please fill out labrat forms and get signatures by next class.
    • Here’s some helpful(?) labrat information. Apparently you have to say YES to the hazardous chemical question (seems to be a bug in the software.)
    • Journal 12 due next class, and presentations if you were absent
    • November goal journal 13 due after break
    • LabRat forms due 12/1
  • November 19, 2025 (Wednesday)
    • Work day
  • November 17, 2025 (Monday)
    • Journal 11 due
  • November 11, 2025 (Tuesday)
    • Journal 10 due with Turkey Goal
    • Demonstrations during the week 11/17-11/21. You pick a date. Show us stuff.
    • ORDER NOW if you need to!
  • November 7, 2025 (Friday)
    • Work day
  • November 5, 2025 (Wednesday)
    • Journal due with October Goal reflection
  • October 29, 2025 (Wednesday)
    • Work day
  • October 27, 2025 (Monday)
    • Journal due
  • October 23, 2025 (Wednesday)
    • Class picture
    • Fill out this ordering form if needed. See me with questions.
    • If you know you need something fill out the form ASAP so it can get here. Try to get it from Amazon if you can. If not there’s a list of approved vendors you should reference.
  • October 21, 2025 (Tuesday)
    • Journals due
    • Mid-October Goal due
  • October 9, 2025 (Thursday)
    • Journals due
    • Independent work
    • Further Journal specifications
      • Each journal covers Sunday-Sunday for the week before you turn it in
      • Must be printed before class, turned in at the bell
      • 1 entry per school day, at least, regardless of your specific location or status (absence does not excuse research because you can research anywhere)
    • Feedback on journals
    • Journal due next class covering 10/5-10/12
    • Overall, great journals turned in today
  • October 7, 2025 (Tuesday)
    • PSAT
    • Journals due but nobody’s here :-)
  • October 2, 2025 (Thursday)
    • Independent work
  • September 30, 2025 (Tuesday)
    • Formulate mid-October and end-October goals
    • Download journal template. Save as a markdown file and compile using pandoc to a pdf.
    • Add your October goals to the journal and at the end of class, take 5 minutes to add your daily log.
    • Journals will be due on the first class day of each week, printed out please, at the beginning of class
    • Submit your journal today with 2 goals on this form
  • September 24, 2025 (Wednesday)
    • Prepare for Friday presentations
    • Work on research
    • Fill out this form
  • September 22, 2025 (Monday)
    • Proposal Presentations 1-9
  • September 18, 2025 (Thursday)
    • Upload link to presentation here
    • Presentations next Monday and Friday (optionally and hopefully not Wednesday also).
  • September 16, 2025 (Tuesday)
    • Draft presentation due by next class (submission link TBD)
    • Here are some guidelines for a proposal talk. Keep it to 6 minutes.
  • September 12, 2025 (Friday)
    • Presentations Sept 22-28, please update (or make!) your slides and send me a draft next week
    • Continue background research
    • Start learning something you don’t know, but which you need to know, in order to do, the thing, you say you’re going to do.
  • September 10, 2025 (Wednesday)
    • Announcement: US AI Olympiad
    • Work in class on finding and reading background papers
    • Discuss your ideas with me ASAP if not already approved!
  • September 8, 2025 (Monday)
    • Announcement: US AI Olympiad
    • Finish individual task from last class, turn in hard copy, meet with me
    • Download Zotero
    • Find at least 12 relevant papers for background research, read, add to Zotero
    • Prepare for proposal presentations, possibly next week
  • September 4, 2025 (Thursday)
    • Turn in proposals (3)
    • Install latex and pandoc
    • Install a markdown editor see list or VS Code extension
    • Individual consultations – you each have an action item for next class!
  • September 2, 2025 (Tuesday)
    • Finish debate team A (congrats Pro side!)
    • Brainstorm >= 3 new research ideas
    • Share ideas here
  • August 27, 2025 (Wednesday)
    • Finish debate team B (congrats Con side!)
    • Share 3 research ideas and discuss
  • August 25, 2025 (Monday)
    • In-class debate
    • Pro A, Con A, Pro B, Con B teams
    • HW: Prepare your rebuttals. Present 2 min rebuttal and 2 min conclusion next class
  • August 21, 2025 (Thursday)
    • Intro to class.
    • Weekly journal format
    • Intro to Markdown
    • Quick survey of research ideas