Summer 2017 CASCRI Researcher and Leadership development Rosemary, Nicole, Angela, Tynon, Arnob, Matthew, Rashjree, Nashat “ The Very Informal Syllabus” 0. Work ethic. ( Be on time. When you go out to the real world or college class you need to be on time to learn and work. Consequences such as getting kick out of class, fired from work or miss 50% of exam question due to 5 minute lateness) Official schedule: 10am to 6pm on marked day (YES, is 8 hours of work.) 1. speaking and presentation ( presenting paper 15-20 minutes and specific biology topic 10 minutes) 2. Scientific thinking ( from the knowledge you learn from paper or presentation what can you make use of it? How can it contributes to future studies?) 3. Data collection from machine and interpretation ( more for math majors, bioinformatic, to understand the data collected and familiarize with common science result. one thing you need to understand is 25% of the research paper explains the purpose hypothesis and future studies while the rest of the 75% is all observation and data interpretation.) 4. Teamwork: 15 …show more content…
Funtime… not really. Look up a video with lab ethnic problem and share with others why it shouldn’t happen in lab. It can be a funny story you read online. A meme, video, something at school lab (Like my friend set our school lab on fire)and etc. or like machinery problems such as: struggling with the pipette aid for 20 minutes and realize the machine wasn’t on or unorganized bench cause people to knock over beakers and break them. ( this is to teach you what to do and not to do during experiments) Additionally what you like, what you learn, and how would you improve your presentation. Also this is more of getting people into the habits of sharing scientific knowledge. One of the biggest problem we have nowadays is the lack of communication in the scientific world. Share about new inventions that were discovered, change in science community, and no trump please unless he cure cancer