[NCLUG] Greetings and amazing offer

[DJ Eshelman]

That's awesome.

I think in 6th grade I was still making little solar system models and 
'the volcano'

Of course, nowadays I wouldn't be able to do much more than that anyway, 
so in my opinion you should be pretty proud.  I'll be out of town that 
week, but I think it's just too cool.

Jim Hutchinson wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I am new to this list but met some of you at the last meeting. My name is
> Jim Hutchinson and I was the one who spoke briefly about the Technology in
> Education conference in June. I'm writing for a different reason today -
> though let me know if you are interested in TIE.
>
> My daughter is working on her 6th grade science fair project. It is a
> comparison of true and pseudo random number generators. She is using the
> sums of two dice as her experimental model and has Ruby and Python scripts
> to generate X number of "rolls". She is comparing the observed frequencies
> of each sum to the expected frequencies using a chi-square test. She is also
> collecting data on real world dice rolls to compare to the pRNGs. Her entire
> project is done using FLOSS - Ubuntu OS, OO.o, and Ruby and Python.
>
> I have told her that part of doing good research is connecting with a
> community. For example, to start, she emailed the Ubuntu list and asked for
> help with the scripts. Soon, it will be time to present her findings. I was
> wondering if it would be possible for her to do a short presentation at the
> next NCLUG meeting (4/8)? If not, a later one would also work, but the
> actual fair is in mid-April and I think it would be cool if she could do
> something before then. I don't think it would be more than 15 mins unless
> there were a lot of questions - which would be fine too. Mainly, I just want
> her to get some experience presenting.
>
> Thanks,
> -jim
>   


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