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== Week 5: (June 26th 2023 - June 30th 2023) == | == Week 5: (June 26th 2023 - June 30th 2023) == | ||
| + | '''Week Recap''' | ||
| + | *I travelled to Connecticut along with a large portion of my lab group to conduct the same type of meetings that we had with the Milwaukee school teachers the week previous but with the Connecticut teachers | ||
| + | *On the first day, we gave the same presentation of current computer science tools that have been used in classrooms | ||
| + | **Showcased what each object was, and how they were commonly used | ||
| + | **I showed off Beebot again | ||
| + | *Spoke with many different groups of teachers, each with really creative ideas on how to incorporate computer science into their classrooms | ||
| + | **One of the groups had a really interesting idea of a web-based platform to intertwine basic block coding along with teaching the kids what erosion is and how it impacts the environment | ||
| + | **Another group wanted to incorporate block coding into creating visuals to tell stories | ||
| + | *Something I found interesting about this experience was the strict regulations that Connecticut has with privacy when using the internet in schools | ||
| + | **It was intriguing how Scratch seemed to be illegal in classrooms because it chose not to comply with the strict rules | ||
| − | '''Monday ( | + | == Week 6: (July 3rd 2023 - July 7th 2023) == |
| + | '''Monday (7/3)''' | ||
| + | *Created the slides for my presentation for this Wednesday | ||
| − | '''Tuesday ( | + | '''Tuesday (7/4)''' |
| + | *Fourth of July! | ||
| − | '''Wednesday ( | + | '''Wednesday (7/5)''' |
| + | *Attended the weekly REU meeting | ||
| + | *Gave my presentation about what I have been working on so far this summer | ||
| + | **Focused more on Splunk | ||
| + | *Continued Splunk trainings | ||
| − | '''Thursday ( | + | '''Thursday (7/6)''' |
| + | *Attended the REU social at the museum | ||
| + | *Worked on Splunk | ||
| − | '''Friday ( | + | '''Friday (7/7)''' |
| + | *Met with lab group to discuss what the plans are for the next few weeks | ||
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| + | |||
| + | == Week 7: (July 10th 2023 - July 14th 2023) == | ||
| + | '''Monday (7/10)''' | ||
| + | *Met with lab group | ||
| + | *Started helping Sam with his ECS project | ||
| + | **Began to read through the curriculum and make notes for possible edits | ||
| + | **Started going through each lesson on his website and completing them | ||
| + | |||
| + | '''Tuesday (7/11)''' | ||
| + | *Continued helping out with the ECS project I had mentioned yesterday | ||
| + | |||
| + | '''Wednesday (7/12)''' | ||
| + | *Attended the weekly REU meeting | ||
| + | *Met with lab group to discuss updates | ||
| + | *Continued helping with ECS project | ||
| + | **Met with a couple others to discuss changes to the curriculum | ||
| + | |||
| + | '''Thursday (7/13)''' | ||
| + | *Met with Sam and Mary to work on ECS curriculum | ||
| + | **Read through curriculum and made necessary changes | ||
| + | **I researched what computer science educational standards were being utilized in each lesson and made notes of it | ||
| + | *Was supposed to meet to talk about Splunk but meeting got cancelled | ||
| + | |||
| + | '''Friday (7/14)''' | ||
| + | *Splunk meeting | ||
| + | *Lab meeting | ||
| + | **Discussed updates | ||
| + | *Worked on ECS stuff still | ||
| + | |||
| + | == Week 8: (July 17th 2023 - July 21st 2023) == | ||
| + | '''Week Recap''' | ||
| + | *I attended the teacher ECS curriculum meetings throughout the week with Sam and Mary | ||
| + | *I was able to gain valuable teacher insight about their perspective on the curriculum | ||
| + | *I worked on recreating the "Muddy City" problem that is currently used in ECS curriculum | ||
| + | **This is essentially a minimum spanning tree problem with nice visuals associated with it, and helps high school students understand the topic | ||
| + | **I am recreating this because the solution to the current one can be found very easily on the internet, causing many students to cheat | ||
| + | **During this week I mostly completed it, with just a few more pieces to add | ||
| + | *Attended the weekly REU meeting | ||
| + | *Met with lab group a couple times to discuss updates | ||
| + | |||
| + | == Week 9: (July 24th 2023 - July 28th 2023) == | ||
| + | '''Monday (7/24)''' | ||
| + | *Continued designing the revised Muddy City problem | ||
| + | *Worked on testing Sam's ECS website | ||
| + | **Tested by creating HTML pages for each assignment | ||
| + | |||
| + | '''Tuesday (7/25)''' | ||
| + | *Continued reviewing and revising the ECS curriculum with Sam and Mary | ||
| + | **Still working on the Unit 3 curriculum that is used on the ECS website | ||
| + | *Continued working on Muddy City problem | ||
| + | *Started working on REU poster | ||
| + | |||
| + | '''Wednesday (7/26)''' | ||
| + | *Attended weekly REU meeting | ||
| + | *Continued working on Muddy City problem | ||
| + | *Continued working on REU poster | ||
| + | *Started rough draft for REU paper | ||
Latest revision as of 19:53, 26 July 2023
Contents
- 1 Week 1: (May 29th 2023 - June 2nd 2023)
- 2 Week 2: (June 5th 2023 - June 9th 2023)
- 3 Week 3: (June 12th 2023 - June 16th 2023)
- 4 Week 4: (June 19th 2023 - June 23rd 2023)
- 5 Week 5: (June 26th 2023 - June 30th 2023)
- 6 Week 6: (July 3rd 2023 - July 7th 2023)
- 7 Week 7: (July 10th 2023 - July 14th 2023)
- 8 Week 8: (July 17th 2023 - July 21st 2023)
- 9 Week 9: (July 24th 2023 - July 28th 2023)
Week 1: (May 29th 2023 - June 2nd 2023)
Tuesday (5/30)
- REU introduction meeting
- Decided on a topic and started preliminary research
Wednesday (5/31)
- Attended REU meeting on how to conduct research effectively
- Communicated with other professors to determine a good starting point
- Began reading a master's thesis related to the topic and took notes
Thursday (6/1)
- Met with Dr. Kaczmarek via teams to discuss Splunk and possible avenues of research
- Finished reading the thesis from the day prior
- Started Splunk online training
Friday (6/2)
- Continued Splunk online training videos
- Looked for potential research articles and took note of a few different articles of interest
- Read a research article about implementing Splunk Phantom and took notes
- Link to article: https://0-ieeexplore-ieee-org.libus.csd.mu.edu/document/9698447
- Entitled "Methods for Automating Threat Hunting and Response"
- Results of research were not very helpful at all
Week 2: (June 5th 2023 - June 9th 2023)
Monday (6/5)
- Attended the RCR Training meeting
Tuesday (6/6)
- Met with other REU researchers during the collaboration time in the morning
- Created the mini presentation for the research paper I read last Friday
- Listened to other's present their research findings
- Presented mini presentation to the others in my lab group
- Researched Bee-Bots and how they are used in computer science education
- Began creating the short presentation for this
Wednesday (6/7)
- Finished Bee-Bots presentation and research
- Attended the Technical Writing / Good Presentations meeting
- Was able to log onto Marquette's Splunk site
- I was able to explore the site and see how it operated
- Also continued to do research into how to best navigate the site
- Started to read another research paper (that is hopefully more useful than the last)
- Link to article: https://0-ieeexplore-ieee-org.libus.csd.mu.edu/document/9800787
- Entitled "Threat Modeling and Threat Intelligence System for Cloud using Splunk"
- Seems somewhat helpful, uses Splunk was as a plugin to create something that combines threat modeling and threat intelligence
Thursday (6/8)
- Attended a meeting with everyone in my lab group
- Presented my Bee-Bots research
- Listened to other lab member's presentations
- As a group we discussed how we can effectively use what we found in this research to help the teacher's come up with lesson plans to utilize these computer science education tools
- Trying to get the free eLearning classes for Splunk
- Just does not want to seem to want to work for me yet, still trying to sort that out
- Began looking for more research papers that could potentially be useful
Friday (6/9)
- Started reading another research paper
- Link to article: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9752323
- Entitled "Efficient Brute-force handling methodology using Indexed-Cluster Architecture of Splunk"
- Article is fairly useful, and it talks about the capabilities of Splunk and how to perform effective searches
- Still trying to figure out how to access the Splunk eLearning classes
- Have been in contact with Marquette's Splunk representative, and it should be sorted out soon
Week 3: (June 12th 2023 - June 16th 2023)
Monday (6/12)
- Re-read parts of the research paper I found last week
- Created a power point for the short presentation about the research paper tomorrow
- Splunk training courses are still not working properly
- Still trying to sort out the problem with Splunk representative
- The issue is that it is not allowing me to access the Splunk eLearning courses with Marquette's access
- Continued looking for more academic articles relating to Splunk's cybersecurity capabilities
- Explored Marquette's Splunk page
- Read through a few of the suggested readings linked in one of the apps on the Splunk site
Tuesday (6/13)
- Met with my lab group for a few hours
- Presented my research findings from the last week
- Listened and engaged with my peer's presentations
- Discussed what was going to happen for the next couple weeks and what needs to be prepared for next week
- Continued trying to make Splunk work, but the Splunk representatives are seemingly nonrespondent at the moment :(
- Explored Marquette's Splunk page
- Looked into the different apps, and read a few short articles on how to use them
Wednesday (6/14)
- Attended weekly meeting
- Shared what I have been researching the past week to the group
- Watched a sample presentation for how our first mini presentation should go
- Communicated with some of my lab group
- Talked over ideas for how to present the robots and other technologies to the teachers for next week
- Looked for more research papers
Thursday (6/15)
- Finally got into the Splunk training courses
- Completed the first course about how to best utilize the search app on Splunk
- Brainstormed other purposes for BeeBots in a classroom
- Began reading another research paper
Friday (6/16)
- Continued Splunk training courses
- Completed the course on creating alerts
- Completed the course on visualizing the data
- Played around with a BeeBot
- Worked on my BeeBot slides for Monday
- Met with my lab group
- Talked about the plans for Connecticut
Week 4: (June 19th 2023 - June 23rd 2023)
Monday (6/19)
- Worked on creating my BeeBot mat
- Drew a few different "obstacles" for my BeeBot mat
- Met with the teachers
- Presented my slides on BeeBots
- Showcased a demo of a BeeBot in action using the mat that I had created earlier
- Engaged with the group and answered questions that they had about what I presented
- Met with my lab group
- Discussed how the rest of the week was going to go
Tuesday (6/20)
- Worked on Splunk for a bit (more training courses)
- Met with lab group
- Met with one teacher to demonstrate how BeeBots and BlueBots are used
Wednesday (6/21)
- Attended weekly REU meeting
- Listened to a sample mini presentation
- Met with my lab group and discussed what was happening that day
- Met with teachers to discuss what they want to incorporate into their classroom
- Then worked on one of the requests that the teachers' had
Thursday (6/22)
Friday (6/23)
- Met with the teachers again
- Showed the demo projects that we had created during the week
- Met with lab group
- Discussed travel plans for the next day
Week 5: (June 26th 2023 - June 30th 2023)
Week Recap
- I travelled to Connecticut along with a large portion of my lab group to conduct the same type of meetings that we had with the Milwaukee school teachers the week previous but with the Connecticut teachers
- On the first day, we gave the same presentation of current computer science tools that have been used in classrooms
- Showcased what each object was, and how they were commonly used
- I showed off Beebot again
- Spoke with many different groups of teachers, each with really creative ideas on how to incorporate computer science into their classrooms
- One of the groups had a really interesting idea of a web-based platform to intertwine basic block coding along with teaching the kids what erosion is and how it impacts the environment
- Another group wanted to incorporate block coding into creating visuals to tell stories
- Something I found interesting about this experience was the strict regulations that Connecticut has with privacy when using the internet in schools
- It was intriguing how Scratch seemed to be illegal in classrooms because it chose not to comply with the strict rules
Week 6: (July 3rd 2023 - July 7th 2023)
Monday (7/3)
- Created the slides for my presentation for this Wednesday
Tuesday (7/4)
- Fourth of July!
Wednesday (7/5)
- Attended the weekly REU meeting
- Gave my presentation about what I have been working on so far this summer
- Focused more on Splunk
- Continued Splunk trainings
Thursday (7/6)
- Attended the REU social at the museum
- Worked on Splunk
Friday (7/7)
- Met with lab group to discuss what the plans are for the next few weeks
Week 7: (July 10th 2023 - July 14th 2023)
Monday (7/10)
- Met with lab group
- Started helping Sam with his ECS project
- Began to read through the curriculum and make notes for possible edits
- Started going through each lesson on his website and completing them
Tuesday (7/11)
- Continued helping out with the ECS project I had mentioned yesterday
Wednesday (7/12)
- Attended the weekly REU meeting
- Met with lab group to discuss updates
- Continued helping with ECS project
- Met with a couple others to discuss changes to the curriculum
Thursday (7/13)
- Met with Sam and Mary to work on ECS curriculum
- Read through curriculum and made necessary changes
- I researched what computer science educational standards were being utilized in each lesson and made notes of it
- Was supposed to meet to talk about Splunk but meeting got cancelled
Friday (7/14)
- Splunk meeting
- Lab meeting
- Discussed updates
- Worked on ECS stuff still
Week 8: (July 17th 2023 - July 21st 2023)
Week Recap
- I attended the teacher ECS curriculum meetings throughout the week with Sam and Mary
- I was able to gain valuable teacher insight about their perspective on the curriculum
- I worked on recreating the "Muddy City" problem that is currently used in ECS curriculum
- This is essentially a minimum spanning tree problem with nice visuals associated with it, and helps high school students understand the topic
- I am recreating this because the solution to the current one can be found very easily on the internet, causing many students to cheat
- During this week I mostly completed it, with just a few more pieces to add
- Attended the weekly REU meeting
- Met with lab group a couple times to discuss updates
Week 9: (July 24th 2023 - July 28th 2023)
Monday (7/24)
- Continued designing the revised Muddy City problem
- Worked on testing Sam's ECS website
- Tested by creating HTML pages for each assignment
Tuesday (7/25)
- Continued reviewing and revising the ECS curriculum with Sam and Mary
- Still working on the Unit 3 curriculum that is used on the ECS website
- Continued working on Muddy City problem
- Started working on REU poster
Wednesday (7/26)
- Attended weekly REU meeting
- Continued working on Muddy City problem
- Continued working on REU poster
- Started rough draft for REU paper
