Today we went to the Bistro again for another tasty breakfast, and then we went on to learn how to use another modeling tool. This modeling tool can be used to model a wide variety of phenomena. We used the example of a sickness spreading through a population. The modeling tool is "Agent Sheets." http://www.agentsheets.com/ This tool is not free, but Dr. Panoff stated that it is available at a reasonable price. Over the course of a couple hours, each person in our workshop, without any programming experience was able to build a model of a population of people spreading a sickness, then adding complexity of the time it takes to recover from the sickness. We were able to do this just by writing "If-Then" statements, and then implimenting them into the model. Building this model was very easy! It was actually very intuitive. I will consider having NOYCE pay for a class copy of this software at the very least.
Finally, Dr. Panoff was able to showcase to the Thai educational professionals in the workshop that Shodor has developed their models so that they are mobile device acceptable! This is their first step towards teaming with Thailand to possibly develop their applications in Thai!
The workshop today was interesting.
Tomorrow we have the day to explore on our own, and Friday we are touring as a group!
Thanks for reading!
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