Faculty and presenters at the 2017 Gevirtz School Grad Slam event
Eight Gevirtz School graduate students will take part in the School’s internal Grad Slam on April 3 and six students will participate in the 2018 UC Santa Barbara’s Graduate Student Showcase Grad Slam that runs from April 9-20. For both Grad Slam events, graduate students have the chance to tell the campus about their research or share their thoughts on big ideas that matter, in just a three-minute talk.
All the presentations are free and open to the public.
The Gevirtz School event will be Tuesday, April 3 in Education 1215 and begin at 11:30 am. This slam is non-competitive and meant to help participants hone their skills. The presenters and their titles:
Sami Alsalloom, “Measuring Musical Emotion”
James Gribble, “BlockbasedVR: Where Children Learn to Code in Virtual Reality”
Jacob Kirksey, “Schools as Sanctuaries: Is ICE Raiding Public Education?”
Jasmine McBeath, “Community-Oriented Making: Engineering Change”
Monica Mendoza, “Student Conceptions of Three-Dimensional Solids”
David Sanosa, “BlockbasedVR: Learning to Program in a Virtual Reality Environment”
Odelia Simon, “Math and Science Identity Equivalent”
Meghna Soni, “Improving Children’s Fraction Understanding through the Use of Number Line”
Sixty-five graduate students representing departments and programs all across campus are scheduled to compete in the campus-wide event. Creative presentations are welcome but all talks must include a live oral presentation and between one and three PowerPoint slides. This year Graduate Division will award more than $15,000 in cash and prizes. A full calendar of Graduate Student Showcase events is on-line.
The Gevirtz School presentations will be:
Grad Slam Preliminary Round 1
Jim Gribble | Education
“Children Learning to Code in Virtual Reality”
Monday, April 9, 11 am – 12 pm
Engineering Science Building 1001
Grad Slam Preliminary Round 2
Jasmine McBeath | Education
“Community-Oriented Making: Engineering Change”
Monday, April 9, 3 pm – 4 pm
McCune Conference Room
Grad Slam Preliminary Round 3
Jacob Kirksey | Education
“Schools as Sanctuaries: Is ICE Raiding the American Dream from Schoolgoing Immigrant-Origin Youth?”
Tuesday, April 10, 11 am – 12 pm
Engineering Science Building 1001
Grad Slam Preliminary Round 4
Odelia Simon | Education
“Math and Science Identity Equivalence”
Tuesday, April 10, 3 – 4 pm
SRB Multipurpose Room
Grad Slam Preliminary Round 6
Meghna Soni | Education
“Improving Children’s Fraction Understanding through the Use of Number Line”
Thursday, April 12, 11 am – 12 pm
ESB (Engineering Science Building) 1001
Grad Slam Preliminary Round 7
Sami Alsalloom | Education
“Measuring Musical Emotions”
Thursday, April 12, 3 pm - 4 pm
UCen State Street Room