Publications about Launch-IT
Launch-IT's Principal Investigator (Dr. Glenn Blank), Program Director (Colleen Solomon and previously Melodie Kent and Teniece Divya Johnson) and Evaluator (Dr. M. Jean Russo) produced the following reports for the National Science Foundation:Third Annual Report, submitted June 2009.
Evaluator's Report supplementing Third Annual Report, submitted June 2009.
Second Annual Report, submitted June 2008.
Evaluator's Report supplementing Second Annual Report, submitted June 2008.
Interim report about first summer program, submitted November 2007.
First Annual Report,submitted June 2007.
Launch-IT faculty and graduate students presented the following papers at conferences:
Blank, G. D., Launch-IT, SITE (Society for Technology Education) Conference, March 4, 2008. An overview of the vision and programs of the Launch-IT project.
Riekts, I. & Blank, G., Inspiring Future IT Professionals with Mars Rovers, Consortium for Computer Science Education, Wagner College, New York, April 11, 2008. With the goal of inspiring at-risk middle school students, we have developed an innovative curriculum using one sixth replicas of the rovers currently on Mars.
Rieksts, I. and Blank, G. Mars Rovers in Middle School, Society for Technology Education (SITE 2008) Conference, March 2008, Las Vegas.
Sands, M., Moukhine, N. & Blank, G., Widening the Pipeline of K-12 Students with Flash, Consortium for Computer Science Education, Wagner College, New York, April 11, 2008. A curriculum that uses Flash programming helps to dispel misconceptions and bring more minority and female high school students back into the pipeline of potential computer scientists.
Moritz, S. and Blank, G.,Generating and Evaluating Object-Oriented Designs for Instructors and Novice Students, Generating and Evaluating Object-Oriented Designs for Instructors and Novice Students, 9th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Workshop on Ill-Formed Domains, June 2008, Montreal.
Parvez, S. and Blank, G. Individualizing Tutoring with Learning Style Based Feedback, 9th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, June 2008, Montreal, pp. 221-231.
Wei, F., & Blank, G. Atomic Dynamic Bayesian Networks for a Responsive Student Model, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education , Los Angeles, CA (July). See also Wei, F. & Blank, G., Student Modeling with Atomic Bayesian Networks, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Taiwan, June 2006, 491-502.