Channel Loving
is currently attending the Colorado School of Mines with the intentions of becoming an M.D.
Michael Marshall is currently attending the Colorado School of Mines, and playing on the footballl team. He was one of 2 Montbello students who were awarded the Daniel Funds Scholarship during the 2009-10 school year.
Luis Jimenz was the valedectorian of Montbell High School during the school year of 2009-10 and is attending the Colorado School of Mines
Richard Nguyen was the Saludatorian of Montbello High School for the year 2009-10 and was the second student that was awarded the Daniels Fund Scholarship. He was also the Batallion Commander for 500 cadets in the JROTC program.
Quote From Bill Daniels the provider of the Daniels Fund Scholarship:
"When you put your life in perspective, you realize how little time there is to make something truly significant out of it. To some people this might mean acquiring a lot of possessions, building a business or owning property. There's nothing wrong with these aspirations, but for me, they pale in comparison to individuals who want to leave something more consequential as their legacy."
Moises Mendez
Corrine,
I have thought about this question quite a bit, because the kids are going to be working on their schedules for next year, and I was not sure if this class would be offered. I think I can use data to justify that the class is successful, but it also has quite a few problems. Let me clarify.
Here is how I can use data to show that the class is successful.
Last year 1 of our top students went to the School of Mines. This year 3, possibly 4 will go to the School of Mines, another student is going to CSU to major in engineering.
The results of last years class: 5 out of 25 students are planning on going to college and getting some kind of engineering degree. This year it looks like 4 out of 18 plan on getting into some kind of engineering.
Let me address your question about how this year is going compared to last year. I think it is going better because I have more experience with the class. There have been some people from a group called MESA who have kind of filled in where you were unable to. Now how to measure this? I am not sure that GPA is a good source for measuring success. There are too many variables, so I have not really kept track of these results. The test results are about the same (If you want some numbers let me know). The way that I see the purpose of this class and measure the success is 3 fold. One we need to improve our math scores desparately, and a large part of this class is trig, kinematic equations, along with other basic Algera 2 skills, and to come up with numbers to measure how successful this is seems to me quite difficult. I suppose I could look at CSAP scores or ACT, but I have not done this. The other purpose for this class, which I think effects what you are looking for, is to encourage kids to get into the engineering field. I think that the numbers previously stated show positive results for this. The last purpose of this class is to reward the kids that do well in math. At the high school level, we struggle with letting kids know that they are doing a good job. In this class we give these kids opportunities to do things that many will never get the opportunity to do. For example Biking and Robotics (Showing how gears effect torque vs. velocity), simulated skydiving (terminal velocity), scuba diving (Boyles law and pressure), skiing (dampening effects, how vibrations rob ones speed), Robotics (programming), plus a lot of things that I have not mentioned.
I know this is a long winded response, and it might not even answer your question, but let me know what your thoughts are. Thanks.
Jeff MaupinMontbello HSMath
From: Corinne Lengsfeld [clengsfe@du.edu]Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 2:57 PMTo: Maupin, JeffSubject: How did you kids do
Jeff,
I was curious what the outcomes for your class last year were compared to this year. For example was the grade point higher? Where test results better?
Corinne
Corinne Lengsfeld
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
University of Denver
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