2025 Camp Schedule
Monday, June 2: Introduction
Monday, June 2: Introduction
Time | Activity |
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8:30 a.m. | Welcome and project overview (Jun Wang) |
9:15 a.m. | Student self-introduction, camp overview, participation protocol, pre-camp experience and organization survey (Shaoping Xiao) |
10:00 a.m. | Engineering library resources (Kari Kozak) |
11:00 a.m. | Extreme Weather and Our Community: A 3-minute talk on changing patterns in the KANI states (group discussion by each state first, then one representative per state) (Shaoping Xiao) |
Informal social lunch on or off campus | |
1:30 p.m. | Engineering ethics: choose-your-own-path game, code of ethics, discussion (Shaoping Xiao) |
2:30 p.m. | Introduction to research (Marc Lindermann) |
Walking around downtown |
Tuesday, June 3: Weather Pattern Change
Tuesday, June 3: Weather Pattern Change
Time | Activity |
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8:30 a.m. | Weather observing networks (Xiaomao Lin) |
9:30 a.m. | Weather variability (Song Feng) |
11:00 a.m. | Introduction to AI and ML (Shaoping Xiao) |
Lunch break | |
1:00 p.m. | Public perceptions of weather pattern change (Bingbing, UIowa social science team) Workshop or panelists Weather and health in the community setting Creative practices built around weather resilience at both the individual and the community level |
Wednesday, June 4: Sensors
Wednesday, June 4: Sensors
Xiaomao Lin and Jun Wang, presenters
Time | Activity |
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8:30 a.m. | Sensor data collection, analysis, and discovery |
10:00 a.m. | Sensor assembly, installation, and usage |
Lunch break | |
1:00 p.m. | Guest seminar – “From Climate Insight to Action: Predicting Anomalies and Extremes for Agricultural Resilience” (Xin-Zhong Liang, UMD) |
2:00 p.m. | NWS Quad City office |
3:00 p.m. | Farm (Lawson Connor, Arkansas) |
Thursday, June 5: Field Trips
Thursday, June 5: Field Trips
Time | Activity |
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9:30 a.m. | Field trip to Operator Performance Laboratory |
Lunch break | |
1:00 p.m. | Autonomous drones (Dirk Charlson, UNL) |
Friday, June 6: Ag Management
Friday, June 6: Ag Management
Time | Activity |
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8:30 a.m. | Irrigation management (Bruno Patias Lena, UNL) |
9:30 a.m. | Ag tools (Eric, UNL) |
10:30 a.m. | AI-driven farming (Shaoping Xiao, UI) |
Lunch break | |
1:00 p.m. | Ag career and STEM education (Troy, UNL) |
2:30 p.m. | Environmental Justice: Weather, Agriculture, and People (Brad Peter, Arkansas) |
3:45 p.m. | Project and mentor assignments (Mentors: Brad Peter, Arkansas, Dirk Charlson, UNL, Marc Lindermann, UI, Shaoping Xiao, UI) |
Saturday, June 7: Events
Saturday, June 7: Events
Iowa Arts Festival: June 6, 4:00 p.m. through June 8, 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, June 8: Events
Sunday, June 8: Events
Time | Activity |
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9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (optional) | Neural networks for image processing (Xiao) (Pre-req: Matrix algebra) |
Monday, June 9: Ag Sensors and Projects
Monday, June 9: Ag Sensors and Projects
Time | Activity |
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8:30 a.m. | Ag monitoring sensors for weather/weed/disease, why weather matters (Wei-zhen Liang and Xin Qiao, UNL) |
9:30 a.m. | Projects supervised by mentors |
Lunch break | |
1:00 p.m. | Projects supervised by mentors |
Tuesday, June 10: Projects
Tuesday, June 10: Projects
Time | Activity |
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8:30 a.m. | Projects supervised by mentors |
Lunch break | |
1:00 p.m. | Projects supervised by mentors |
Wednesday, June 11: Projects
Wednesday, June 11: Projects
Time | Activity |
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8:30 a.m. | Projects supervised by mentors |
Lunch break | |
1:00 p.m. | Projects supervised by mentors |
Thursday, June 12: Projects
Thursday, June 12: Projects
Time | Activity |
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8:30 a.m. | Projects supervised by mentors |
Lunch break | |
1:00 p.m. | Projects supervised by mentors (poster ready for printing) |
Friday, June 13: Wrap-up
Friday, June 13: Wrap-up
Time | Activity |
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9:00 a.m. | Career guidance for engineering and beyond (Kalindi Garvin, UI) |
10:00 a.m. | Panel discussion |
11:00 a.m. | Post-camp survey and closing remarks (Jun Wang, UI) |
12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. | Poster presentations and lunch reception |
6:30 p.m. | Friday Night Concert Series |