Akamai Maui Student Survey Short Course

Akamai Maui Student Survey – Short Course May 30 – June 3, 2006

This survey should take you approximately 15 minutes to complete. Your thoughtful responses and suggestions will be very useful as we plan the program for the coming years. Lisa Hunter, Malika Moutawakkil Bell, Hilary O’Bryan and data entry personnel are the only individuals who directly see these surveys. We summarize the surveys for reporting, being absolutely careful that your identity is unknown to all others.

1. SHORT COURSE DESIGN AND FACILITATION

Please use the following to rate our activities

Session Value of this session to you: Reason for your rating: (for example: How much you learned; fun; interaction with people; exposure to something new; relevance in planning your career or education; relevance to your intern position; practice with research skills, etc.)

Monday, May 30th a. Dinner and Icebreaker at Poor Okay Good Excellent Maui Beach Hotel (ALL) 1 2 3 4

Tuesday, May 31st b. Intro to CfAO, Internship Poor Okay Good Excellent and Short Course (Lisa, Malika, 1 2 3 4 Jess) c. Knowledge Survey (Jess) Poor Okay Good Excellent 1 2 3 4 d. Maui High Tech Summit Poor Okay Good Excellent Investigations (Eddie) 1 2 3 4 e. Lunch and Activity With Poor Okay Good Excellent Mentors (ALL) 1 2 3 4 f. Kahu Maxwell and “Sense of Poor Okay Good Excellent Place” 1 2 3 4 g. Maui Economic Dev. Board Poor Okay Good Excellent Intro (Leslie Wilkins) 1 2 3 4 h. Making Hand Held Poor Okay Good Excellent Spectrographs (ALL) 1 2 3 4 i. Anatomy of an Abstract and Poor Okay Good Excellent Assignment (Malika) 1 2 3 4

Center for Adaptive Optics – Akamai Maui 2006 Akamai Maui Student Survey – Short Course May 30 – June 3, 2006

Wednesday, June 1st j. Camera Obscura and Sun Poor Okay Good Excellent Shadows Inquiry and Lecture 1 2 3 4 (Eddie) k. Lenses & Refraction Activity Poor Okay Good Excellent and Synthesis (Ryan) 1 2 3 4 l. Telescope Design/ Poor Okay Good Excellent Configuration Lecture (Jess) 1 2 3 4 m. Peer Review Writing Time Poor Okay Good Excellent (Malika) 1 2 3 4

Thursday, June 2nd n. Build a Telescope Activity Poor Okay Good Excellent (Mark) 1 2 3 4 o. Color, Light, and Spectra Poor Okay Good Excellent Inquiry and Synthesis (ALL) 1 2 3 4

Friday, June 3rd p. Sunrise Ceremony (Dane) Poor Okay Good Excellent 1 2 3 4 q. Mees Tour (summit staff) Poor Okay Good Excellent 1 2 3 4 r. AEOS Tour (Joe Janni) Poor Okay Good Excellent 1 2 3 4 s. Lunch at Kula Lodge Poor Okay Good Excellent 1 2 3 4

Saturday, June 4th t. Follow your college brick Poor Okay Good Excellent road (Malika) 1 2 3 4 u. Internship Poor Okay Good Excellent Expectations/Communication 1 2 3 4 (Malika and Mark) v. Wavefronts and AO (Jess) Poor Okay Good Excellent 1 2 3 4 w. Gemini Game (Jess) Poor Okay Good Excellent 1 2 3 4 x. Knowledge Post Survey (Jess) Poor Okay Good Excellent 1 2 3 4

2. EXPERIENCE IN TECHNICAL SKILLS

Please tell us about the skills you learned at the Akamai Maui Short Course through your inquiry experiences:

The Short Course… Rating Comments 1. helped me to learn about defining or 1 2 3 4 clarifying a question/problem/design strongly strongly disagree agreee 2. gave me an opportunity to design my own 1 2 3 4 experiment strongly strongly disagree agreee 3. gave me an opportunity to design my own 1 2 3 4 way to solve a problem strongly strongly disagree agreee 4. helped me learn about using data (or other 1 2 3 4 evidence) to develop a scientific explanation, strongly strongly or justify my solution disagree agreee 5. helped me learn about evaluating my design 1 2 3 4 or solution to problem (constraints, testing, strongly strongly tradeoffs) disagree agreee 6. provided opportunities to think about or 1 2 3 4 develop alternative explanations/solutions strongly strongly disagree agreee 7. provided me with an opportunity to think 1 2 3 4 like a scientist strongly strongly disagree agreee 8. provided me with an opportunity to think 1 2 3 4 like an engineer strongly strongly disagree agreee 9. gave me valuable experience presenting 1 2 3 4 scientific/technical ideas/results strongly strongly disagree agreee 10. gave me valuable experience in writing an abstract and1 2 3 4 preparing a poster to present my inquiry results strongly strongly disagree agreee

3. INFLUENCES OF THE SHORT COURSE

A. Using the following scale, please provide your rating of each of the following aspects prior to attending the short course and at the end of the short course. Poor Okay Good Excellent Poor Okay Good Excellent 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4

Prior to attending the Short At the end of the Short Course Course 1. Understanding of the CfAO and the 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 opportunities available to you through the CfAO 2. Understanding of the Maui High 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 Tech Industry and the job opportunities available to you there 3. Interest in being a part of Maui High 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 Tech Industry 4. Access to people who can give you 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 information about your educational/career goals 5. Knowledge about basic optics like 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 pinhole cameras, refraction, aberrations,, lenses etc. 6. Understanding of what adaptive 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 optics is 7. Knowledge about telescopes: what 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 they are and how they work. 8. Understanding of how to get along in 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 a science or engineering based workspace 9. Confidence for working in your 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 internship position on Maui 10. Comfort with writing and making 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 presentations about my experiments and/or work 11. Feeling of preparedness for your 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 internship 12. Understanding of how science/tech 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 can impact Native Hawaiian cultural practices 13. Knowledge about the spiritual and 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 cultural significance of Haleakala

4. YOUR DECISION TO BE PART OF THIS PROGRAM

a) How did you find out about the CfAO Akamai Maui Internship program?

b) What made you decide to apply for, and then accept, your position in the CfAO Akamai Maui Internship Program (in comparison to other things you could have done this summer)?

5. SUMMARY

a) Has the Short Course changed the way that you are thinking about, or your plans for, your career or education?

b) Do you feel that you have reached the goals you had for the short course?

c) Overall, how valuable was the Short Course to you?

______1 2 3 4 5 not at all somewhat valuable very extremely valuable valuable valuable valuable

d) Briefly, why you gave the rating above:

Mahalo for your cooperation!

Center for Adaptive Optics – Akamai Maui 2006