Hello Ladies!!
Hey Ladies!! This is Pina! Yesterday we had so much fun because we had a group of awesome 9th graders come visit from Shoreham-Wading River. Mentors Diana and Amna, TechPREP instructor Laura, and Sharon and Alana from the WISE office helped me out with the day.
They day was inquisitive, interesting, and very exciting. We started out by having a “who dunnit?” activity, in which the girls became dectives, and carried out various forensic techniques to solve a mystery. The day continued with a visit from Tim Young an OPLITE member from the Computer Science department at Stony Brook. He brought with him women of various positions from the Computer science, IT, and TLT departments here at Stony Brook. They spoke to the girls about their career and education choices, they played trivia, and watched a video about the booming world of IT. Finallly we went on a tour of the greenhouse in the Life Sciences building. The day was very enjoyable and a great concise introduction to what studying various sciences at Stony Brook and being in WISE has to offer!
Here are some pictures of the greenhouse tour!
SISTERS Summer Program.
It’s wonderfully warm outside and hope that Stony Brook is treating you well. We’re so glad that all you chickies could come spend the next few days with us at camp. Learn lots, and leave us messages in the comment box below. We’ll make sure to read it– you can give us helpful comments on how to improve the program, tips for games, and maybe even snack suggestions? It’s your call.
Stay wise.
SISTERS Tech Prep Session 5
hey chickies…
hope you enjoyed the day making databases and learning about algorithms! let us know what you liked, and what you didn’t. only one more session left till summmmmerrrr!
SISTERS Tech Prep Session 5
hey chickies…. you know the deal: tell us what you liked, what you didn’t. Hope you enjoying learning about computer-human interactions and learning more fun technological tools!
a pretty wise chick: Karen Bulaklak
After accepting the offer to be a part of the WISE program at Stony Brook, I had mixed feelings at first. Coming from a small high school, Stony Brook University was a huge change for me. I was used to 30 max students per class, seeing the same familiar faces as I walked down the hallway, an 8 to 3 schedule, and coming home every day. Now, I would be surrounded by thousands of students, in classes with hundreds of people and no one from Stony Brook to help me out. Needless to say, I wasn’t exactly looking forward to college and afraid of becoming lost in the crowd.
Over the first few weeks, I realized how great the WISE program was. I met so many new and interesting people at WISE orientation events, in Gray College (my residence hall), even my roommates were in WISE! I began to feel less alone as I sat with my new friends in Chemistry class and met up with my WISE study group and upperclassman mentor, someone who went through the same intimidating and challenging experiences during her first few years at Stony Brook.
Being a part of WISE helped me adjust to the new challenges and added stresses I faced as a freshman in college and as a woman in science. While WISE introduced me to college life, it has also opened so many doors. I have learned so much from my new friends and WISE-specific courses about different topics in science. For example, in my WISE 187 Research class, I was able to examine how a specific gene influenced the development of a mouse embryo for one project as well as collect zooplankton samples from Stony Brook Harbor for another project. I never expected to learn so much in one semester! All in all, WISE has been such a great experience for me, and I’m sad to see such a fun and eventful freshman year end. I’m excited to see what the next few years will bring me.
Karen Bulaklak
SISTERS Tech Prep Session 4
hey chickies…
so glad you could come and spend the morning with us! enjoy the weather later today!
we hope you loved learning about programming today, and that all of you were able to start your websites. let us know what you liked, what you didn’t, what you learned, and what you’re interested in for next time.
we used this website for our animations today: http://scratch.mit.edu
check out ours at: http://scratch.mit.edu/users/techprep
SISTERS Tech Prep Session 3
Hope you girlies had fun today! Let us know what you thought of today’s program….
goings on… April 2009
4/15:
WISE Academic Advising
Wang Center Zodiac Gallery
Campus Lifetime
4/19:
Admitted Students Day
Engineering Ball
4/23:
WISE Pizza Party for ALL admitted students
4/30:
WISE Annual Banquet
SISTERS Tech Prep Session 2
hey chickies!!!
we had so much fun with you today!! this week we focused on networking and communications… check back in a little bit for some photos…
so ladies, what did you think of today? comments? questions? concerns? (let us know…)
