As part of an outreach program to promising high school students with programming experience, we are inviting select

computer science high school students from the Northeast Ohio region to attend this workshop.  These students will get a taste

of a research workshop, an introduction to swarm intelligence and attend a tutorial on swarm software.

Friday's agenda for the high school students and their mentors will be the same as for all workshop attendees.  The swarm tutorial  will be

Saturday morning and afterwards, students and their mentors are invited to participate in the Human Swarm activities.  Lunch will provide

an opportunity for students to interact with other conference participants. 

5:00 - 7:00           Check-in/Registration & Swarm Software Demonstration Stations,

                            Muldoon Atrium in the Dolan Center for Science and Technology

 

                            After checking in, visit with swarm software developers and

                           view their systems at locations through the Atrium

 

                            BuggerLab

                                      Presenter: E. Talvitie, Oberlin University, Oberlin, OH, USA

 

                            Java SWarm Experimentation and Evaluation Platform (JSWEEP)

                                       Presenter: M. Kovacina, Orbital Research, Inc., Cleveland, OH, USA

 

                           Virtual Human Swarm System (VHS)

                                        Presenters: J. Murton, K. Zajac, John Carroll University, Cleveland, OH, USA

 

                           Apple Orchard - A swarm of wireless P2P networked Imacs

                                        Presenters: J. Schatz, P. Cloutier, John Carroll University, Cleveland, OH, USA

7:00 - 7:30           Light Meal

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7:30 - 7:45           Welcome Address, Donahue Auditorium

                            Dr. Mary Beadle
                                   Dean of the Graduate School at John Carroll University
                                   Cleveland OH, USA

7:45 - 8:30          Keynote Speaker, Donahue Auditorium 

                           Bruce Clough, Technical Area Lead 
                                   Air Vehicles Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory
                                   Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton OH, USA

8:00 - 9:00         Check-in/Registration, Muldoon Atrium

9:00 - 11:00       High School Student Swarm Tutorial, Conference Room

 

                          Students will be given a step-by-step tutorials on how to use freely available swarm software to generate

                          their own swarm experiments.    In this hands-on experience, students will design swarm agents, define their

                          behavior, and observe the interactions of 100s of their simulated creations.                     

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11:00 - 12:30     Human Swarm Demonstration and Experiment, Muldoon Atrium

 

                         100+ participants can experience a swarm from the agent's perspective.  Learn how to attempt to

                         achieve high-level goals by only taking actions based on local information.

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1:15 - 2:00      Featured Speaker, Donahue Auditorium

                      Dr. Roger Quinn, Director
                                  Biologically Inspired Robotics Laboratory, Case Western Reserve University
                                  Cleveland OH, USA

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