2025 Camp Schedule

Monday, June 2: Introduction

TimeActivity
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

TimeActivity
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

Xiaomao Lin and Jun Wang, presenters

TimeActivity
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

TimeActivity
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

TimeActivity
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

Iowa Arts Festival: June 6, 4:00 p.m. through June 8, 5:00 p.m.

Sunday, June 8: Events

TimeActivity
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

TimeActivity
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

TimeActivity
8:30 a.m.Projects supervised by mentors
 Lunch break
1:00 p.m.Projects supervised by mentors

Wednesday, June 11: Projects

TimeActivity
8:30 a.m.Projects supervised by mentors
 Lunch break
1:00 p.m.Projects supervised by mentors

Thursday, June 12: Projects

TimeActivity
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

TimeActivity
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