The California Tech Volume CXVIII Number 20 Pasadena, California [email protected] March 30, 2015 Anderson wins prestigious student-athlete honor LORI DAJOSE Upon his arrival at Caltech in the or the fuel cell route. We’re Contributing Writer fall of 2012, he joined both the analyzing both systems with basketball team and the Institute’s respect to these go-karts to This article was originally 2013 Department of Energy figure out their overall energy written for the Marketing and Solar Decathlon team, which efficiency.” Communications Office and is collaborated with architectural Engineering the go-karts published online at caltech.edu. design students from the Southern to run on sustainable energy California Institute of Architecture is still a long-term process. to design, build, and operate a In the more immediate Rob Anderson, a junior on the solar-powered house. future, Anderson will soon Caltech men’s basketball team, has During the summer of 2013, be traveling to attend the been named to the 2015 Allstate Anderson returned to his home NCAA Division I “Final Four” National Association of Basketball state to conduct research at the college basketball playoffs Coaches Good Works Team. University of Minnesota, where with other student-athletes The community service award he designed and coded a tool to on the NABC’s Good Works “honors student-athletes for their calculate the economic feasibility team. Later in the year, the off-the-court achievements and of growing crops that could be team will also participate in commitment to giving back to converted to fuel in the form of a community works project their communities and positively cellulosic ethanol. and hold a basketball camp impacting the lives of those around “After the Solar Decathlon Photo Courtesy of Lance Hayashida/Caltech Office of Strategic Communications for younger players. them,” according to the NABC. ended in autumn of 2013, I began “Rob epitomizes the “I learned that I was named to looking for another engineering students signed up for the club’s drivetrains—the components term student-athlete,” says head the team at 8:30 a.m. after pulling sustainability project,” Anderson mailing list. that deliver power to the driving basketball coach Oliver Eslinger. an all-nighter, so it didn’t really hit says. “I noticed there were a few “That’s basically how the wheels—and battery systems. We’re “His character and commitment, me at first,” Anderson says. “I feel empty gas-engine go-karts in Sustainable Vehicle Club was working with local companies to both as an academic standout extremely honored to represent Fleming [one of Caltech’s eight born,” Anderson says. “The people gather most of the parts.” Anderson and teammate, are highly valued Caltech and our team on a national undergraduate houses] and I at the Resnick Institute were and his team aim to enter the 2016 in our program. He is a perfect scale.” realized I could re-engineer them excited that a student wanted Society of Automotive Engineers representative for athletics and Anderson, who is studying to use electric power.” to lead an engineering project Formula One Electric Race, an our university, in that he brings mechanical engineering and Anderson reached out to Caltech around sustainability. They have electric vehicle design competition efficiency, creativity, and focus business economics and and the Resnick Sustainability played a key role in advising the for college engineers. to his daily activities. We are so management, was selected for Institute, and proposed repairing club, connecting us with the right In addition to design and proud of this honor and what it his extensive work researching the vehicles, one using battery people around campus and in the engineering, Anderson and his means for Caltech. I know that the and designing sustainable energy power and another using a hydrogen corporate world, and have been group conduct research into the folks he meets during Final Four projects. During his senior year fuel cell. He also reached out to the our main source of funding for feasibility and efficiency of fuel weekend will be impressed with of high school, he designed a 17- undergraduate population to gauge purchasing the parts we need.” cells. his efforts and abilities to balance foot solar-powered boat for the interest in a sustainable vehicle “Now we’re using the old go- “In general, sustainable energy basketball with all of his research 2012 Solar Splash Competition. club. Eventually, more than 100 kart shells to experiment with can go either the electric route and academic pursuits.” Caltech economist Richard Roll wins Onassis Prize in finance KIMM FESENMAIER this year’s award for finance with as “Roll’s Critique.” That work way to test the most prominent governmental agencies and Caltech Media Relations Stewart Myers, an economics cast into doubt empirical tests of modern asset pricing theory. corporations. He was a vice professor at MIT. the capital asset pricing model, Roll joined the faculty at Caltech president of Goldman, Sachs & This article was originally “The Onassis Prize in in 2014 after spending nearly 40 Co. from 1985 until 1987. He also published online at caltech.edu. Finance has been awarded years at the UCLA Anderson served as president of the American Richard Roll, the Linde previously to Nobel laureate School of Management. He has Finance Association in 1987. Institute Professor of Finance at Eugene Fama, Caltech also held faculty positions at Roll has published more than Caltech, has been named one of trustee and Deutsche Carnegie-Mellon University, the 100 peer-reviewed articles and has two recipients of this year’s Onassis Bank Prize recipient European Institute for Advanced won Graham and Dodd Awards Prize in Finance. Awarded only Stephen Ross, along with Study of Management in Brussels, for financial writing four times. once every three years, the Onassis my esteemed corecipient and the French business school Among other achievements, Roll Prizes honor the contributions of this year, Stewart Myers. Hautes Études Commerciales has won the Leo Melamed Award top thinkers in the fields of finance, I am humbled and deeply near Paris. for outstanding scholarship by a international trade, and shipping. honored to be included in He earned his undergraduate business school professor (1990), “As the Linde Professor of such company,” says Roll. degree in aeronautical engineering the Roger F. Murray Prize from Finance, Richard Roll anchors a In a statement, the from Auburn University. He then the Institute for Quantitative revitalized program in finance at Cass Business School was employed by Boeing, where Research in Finance (2001), Caltech that is now making great and Onassis Foundation he worked on the 727 and wrote and the Nicholas Molodovsky strides in both original research noted, “This year’s winners the operating manual for the Award from the Association for and in improving the course have made foundational first stage booster of the Saturn Investment Management Research offerings for both undergraduate contributions to finance moon rocket, while earning (2002), and was named “Financial and graduate students,” says Jean- since the beginning of Photo Courtesy of Lance Hayashida/Caltech Office his M.B.A. at the University of Engineer of the Year for 2009” by of Strategic Communications Laurent Rosenthal, chair of the its transformation to a Washington. Realizing that he was the International Association of Division of the Humanities and rigorous science-based discipline, then a premier model of risk and more interested in business than Financial Engineers. He is also a Social Sciences at Caltech. “It is nearly a half century ago: Stewart return. Roll has also collaborated engineering, he quit his job and fellow of the Econometric Society. wonderful to see him recognized Myers in corporate finance and with Caltech alumnus and trustee completed a Ph.D. in economics, The winners of the Onassis Prizes with this prestigious prize.” Richard Roll in capital markets.” Stephen Ross (B.S. ’65) to test finance, and statistics at the were announced by Alderman Alan The Onassis Prizes are awarded Roll is known for his work on Ross’s alternative model of risk University of Chicago. Yarrow, the Lord Mayor of London, jointly by the Alexander S. Onassis portfolio theory—the design of and return known as the arbitrage In addition to his academic at Mansion House in London on Public Benefit Foundation and the optimal investment portfolios— pricing theory. Roll continues to positions, Roll has founded March 20. Roll and the other 2015 Cass Business School, part of City and asset pricing. His most widely work in this area; in his most recent several companies and has served honorees will receive their awards University London. Roll shares cited paper has come to be known working paper, he proposes a new as a consultant to numerous at a ceremony in September.

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CALTECH Y Are you wondering about the Brunch is provided. Space is Walt Disney Hall performance next step in your life? Have you limited, registration required by JERRY FENG with music was a peculiar one: one The Caltech Y Column serves to reached a crossroad where you Thursday, 3/26. Register at https:// Contributing Writer day she could dream of nothing inform students of upcoming events would benefit from an opportunity docs.google.com/forms/d/1HoPlP but music, yet the next she could and volunteer opportunities. The to explore? Would a trip, an l1ofwcecUAf8EhFupoGTFnw0Vv5 Last month, Walt Disney Hall equally hate it and feel like she never list is compiled by Neera Shah from opportunity to volunteer with suDr0uNHuno/viewform. was graced with tremendous wanted to play again. As a young information given by the Caltech Y an organization, or a chance to The Caltech Y is partnering with musical talent. Martha Argerich, soloist, Argerich once deliberately and its student leaders. try a new skill or interest this Tim Boyd, Caltech Alum, Caltech Y who is essentially the prima donna cut her finger with a knife in Founded by students in 1916, summer help you gain clarity? If Board Member, and Leadership of the piano world, came to perform order to avoid playing a concert. the Y was organized to provide you answered yes to any of these Consultant with The Bottom Three, Schumann’s Piano Concerto with Schumann suffered from a similar extracurricular activities planned questions, then the Studenski to present a leadership workshop the Los Angeles Philharmonic. love-hate relationship with music and implemented by students as Award might be for you. for current students and alumni. Argerich shot to fame exactly and once wrote in his diary, “Music, an opportunity to learn leadership The Studenski Memorial Award This interactive leadership half a century ago by winning the how you disgust me and repel me skills and discover themselves. is a grant of up to $6000 established lab will focus on critical decision- prestigious Warsaw Chopin Piano to death.” Argerich’s disposition More information about the in the memory of Paul Studenski, making and embracing uncertainty Competition at the age of 24. After a and personality complement Caltech Y and its programs can be a Caltech student who was killed while leading through turbulent 15-year-long career of concertizing Schumann’s representation of his found at https://caltechy.org. The in an automobile accident while times. Through a customized role- as a solo artist, Argerich switched imaginary alter egos — Eusebius the office is located at 505 S. Wilson traveling across the United States play simulation for the Caltech her whole focus to concerti and dreamer, Florestan the passionate, Avenue. in 1974. It is awarded to a Caltech community, participants will chamber music. and Meister Raro, who represented undergraduate who, having be required to make decisions While I and a large constituent Schumann himself — in his works. Upcoming Events reached a crossroads in life, would while acting as executives within of the concertgoers may have been The moods in Schumann’s pieces benefit from a period away from a company and presenting most excited to listen to Argerich are incredibly mercurial as a result 1. Make-A-Difference Day the academic community to obtain critical strategic plans to a Board play one of her specialties, we were of his rapid switching between 2015 a better understanding of self and of Directors. Participants will also treated to the very capable these characters. Saturday | April 4th | Join over to explore possible directions for review their understanding of guest conductor Juraj Valčuha. As Argerich situated herself a hundred Caltech students the future. fundamental leadership skills by While still relatively unknown in at the piano before she and the Volunteer for Make-A- Studenski proposals (1 to 2 testing them against unpredictable the states, Valčuha is an up-and- orchestra played the famous Difference Day on Saturday, April pages maximum) are due Friday, constraints of time and resources, coming conductor from Slovakia dramatic opening attack, the 4th. Sign up now through Tuesday, April 17th no later than 12:00 noon while reinforcing the often who made his debut in 2005 with audience became dead silent, March 31st. to [email protected] (in word underestimated urgency of stress- the Orchestre National de France anxious to hear the legendary The Caltech Y is partnering with format). For more information, management. and has been the Chief Conductor of performer. I was personally in agencies from all over Pasadena and contact Athena Castro athena@ The Leadership Lab will the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale bliss every time Argerich donned the greater LA region for one day of caltech.edu or Greg Fletcher conclude at 2:00 pm to allow della RAI, Torino since 2009. Eusebius’s mask — Argerich just has community service. All members of [email protected] or join us for interested participants to attend this way of touching the listener’s the Caltech community are invited dinner: Caltech Athletic’s Orange Out Valčuha opened the concert heart with her tenderness. Valčuha to participate in one of a variety Studenski Informational Dinner Lunch and Baseball Game There with British composer Benjamin gave her the perfect support, of community service projects at Monday, April 6th - 5:30 PM will be free food and free tee- Britten’s Four Sea Interludes from allowing the orchestra to help the Boys and Girls Club, Monrovia Hosted by Tom Mannion at his shirts. Please come and support Peter Grimes. Peter Grimes is an bring out the nuances in Argerich’s Canyon, Habitat for Humanity, LA house our athletes at the final Orange Out opera that was actually written in interpretation of the piece. As was Arboretum, and many more sites. RSVP by April 2nd to http:// of the year. All are welcome. Southern California in 1941 while to be expected, the performance You can choose to work with kids tinyurl.com/studenski The Bottom Three is a group of Britten was on extended leave was flawless. or animals, do construction or The application and more info consultants focused on changing during the early days of World War Thunderous applause erupted outdoor projects or visit with the about the program can be found the way the world views leadership II (he was a devout pacifist and left as Argerich finished the final elderly. Projects are led by other at http://caltechy.org/programs_ leveraging experiential hands on Britain for a time because of its triumphant arpeggios of the students and will be 3 to 6 hours - services/areas/Studenski/index. training to transform the world, involvement in the war). The opera third movement. An unrelenting including travel, depending on the php. one leader at a time. received its LA Phil debut in 1945. standing ovation lasted nearly project. Meals, transportation, and 4. Caltech Y ACT Award The Leadership Lab kicks off the It seemed as if Valčuha chose the three minutes and was filled with t-shirts are provided. Applications are due by Friday, Caltech Spring Student Leadership piece in order to extinguish any whistling and calls of “Encore!” in For more details on the projects April 17th at noon Series and is made possible with potential doubts that the audience an attempt to coax Argerich to play and to sign up, please visit www. The Caltech Y ACT Award, made generous funding from Caltech may have had about him. Valčuha again. I was eager at the prospect caltechY.org and rank your possible through the generous Student Affairs. Visit www. deftly maneuvered the symphony of hearing the great Martha preferences on the web form. support of the Caltech Employees caltechY.org for more information orchestra through four interludes Argerich play a solo piece live. Signups are requested by Tuesday, Federal Credit Union, offers an or contact [email protected] if with exceptional precision and Shyly, she returned to the piano to March 31st but we will continue to opportunity to purse an interest in you have questions. control. Under Valčuha’s baton, the audience’s delight and without add volunteers in as space allows. community service or advocacy. 6. Hathaway Sycamores the orchestra weaved through the another word, began to rattle off 2. Caltech Y Centennial Partner with an organization Tutoring many emotional moods of the piece Traumes Wirren from Schumann’s T-Shirt Competition that is changing the world. Explore Monday | 5:30-8:00pm | that is so characteristically Britten. Fantasiestücke, Op. 12. The piece Submissions due Wednesday, real world issues in our local Highland Park Particularly compelling is Britten’s is incredibly virtuosic, yet Argerich April 8th at Noon community, across the nation, Volunteer at Hathaway- ability to convey stories using only played it with the ease of making a The Caltech Y is turning 100 or around the globe - and make a Sycamores, a group that supports music, and Valčuha was effectively cup of tea. and would like to commemorate difference in the world. The $4500 local underprivileged but motivated able to capture that Brittenesque this momentous occasion with a award offers an opportunity to high school students. There are a essence. Following an intermission, centennial t-shirt. We are looking explore an issue, engage in a cause, variety of ages and subjects being Valčuha conducted Richard for a creative and original design and lead a campaign to educate and tutored. The service trip includes I can’t help but compare Argerich Strauss’s Death and and invite all undergraduate and engage others at Caltech. Caltech about an hour of travel time and 1.5 to Clara Wieck Schumann, who Transfiguration. The tone poem graduate students to participate. Y activists determine the cause hours of tutoring. Transportation was not only Robert Schumann’s depicts a dying man whose Email your design to caltechy@ they will address, the organization is included. For more info and to wife but also the most prominent thoughts turn to his childhood, caltech.edu. with whom they will partner, and RSVP email Sherwood Richers female pianist of the 19th century. his adulthood, his ideals and, at There will be a 36 hour voting the type of campaign they will lead at [email protected]. Like Clara, Argerich has enjoyed the end, the transfiguration of his period for all students to select on campus. The Caltech Y ACT Eligible for Federal Work Study. a long career as a concert artist: soul. The piece is all about gradual the top 3. A committee from the Award helps Caltech Students Schumann spent 61 years as a transformation throughout the Caltech Y and Caltech Store will expand their understanding of the Other Announcements - pianist before her death in 1896 movements and sudden transitions pick the winning design from the world unleashing them to change Beyond the Caltech Y at the age of 77, and Argerich has between movements, and Valčuha top 3 to be on the official centennial the world for the better as active spent 58 years as a concert pianist. handled the difficult-to-conduct t-shirt by Monday April 13. citizens. YWCA TECHgyrls Moreover, both are known for the piece beautifully. He exerted so Each of the top 3 submissions The application and more info Monday and Wednesday | 4:00 promotion of promising young much patient control that the will receive a $25 gift card to the about the program can be found - 6:00 PM | 1015 N. Lake Ave. | artists, Argerich with her support transfiguration theme, finally Caltech Store. The winning design at http://www.caltechy.org/ Pasadena of Ivo Pogorelich and Schumann being played near the end of the will be printed, and t-shirts will be programs_services/commservice/ The YWCA teaches tech classes with Johannes Brahms. work, sent shivers down my spine. sold at the Caltech Store. ACT/index.php. to girls 10-17. Volunteers are needed Of the multitude of piano Art must fit on the front chest 5. Leadership Lab: “The to teach lessons or help students concerti in Argerich’s repertoire, area of t-shirt. Designs can have up Uncertainty Principle” with projects. They are really open perhaps none fit her as well as to two colors. Saturday | March 28th | 8:30 to ideas and suggestions. Check Robert Schumann’s. Argerich is Jerry Feng attended the LA Phil 3. The Studenski Award AM - 2:00 PM | Avery Library out their website for more info on known to be temperamental as a concert as part of a class field trip Proposals Due Friday, April Open to students (free) and the program. Email ljackman@ musician and as a person. She once organized by music lecturer Tom 17th no later than noon alumni ($20) caltech.edu to volunteer. explained that her relationship Neenan. feature THE CALIFORNIA TECH March 30, 2015 3 Bronson’s playful lyrics on Mr. Wonderful provide little substance NAILEN MATSCHKE This doesn’t change much on dimensional. However, his lyricism oysters / And speak six languages cut of Bronson singing over an Contributing Writer Mr. Wonderful, which is largely is surprisingly strong on this track, in three voices,” this time on top of energetic but plastic-sounding a predictable dose of its titular and he pulls off some slick internal a slick electronic beat supplied in blues-rock number, in addition to Action Bronson’s Mr. character. The singles that led rhymes such as “Playing Frisbee part by longtime Drake producer respectable tracks like “Baby Blue,” Wonderful is just one of several up to its release dominate the in the West Indies, did the tango Noah “40” Shebib. The vocals are featuring Chance the Rapper. highly anticipated hip-hop albums album, providing again amusing Bronson’s verses are functional that came out over the past couple a nice range of and delivered but unremarkable as he discusses of weeks, but while the others were instrumental without a hitch, his problems with a woman and produced by influential artists at styles and but they cover explains his own behavior, but his the forefront of their genre, the showcasing such a narrow lines are forgettable as the whole unapologetically unconventional Bronson scope that it all show is stolen by Chance, thanks to personality that is its creator sets confidently runs together. his unique flow and creative wishes it apart as a unique element on rapping his The token foods of petty inconveniences. Bronson the hip-hop playing field. Born in typically are “melon and ends up in the same boat as Riff Flushing, Queens to an Albanian outlandish prosciutt’,” and Raff, who can’t make an album of immigrant father and a Jewish and somewhat we get bits about his best material because it is based mother, Arian Asllani spent several disjointed verses. Bronson driving around such a simple concept but years working as a chef in New York Closing track “Easy no less than can’t branch out because it is City before switching to his hobby Rider” serves as three different antithetical to his persona. of rapping, as Action Bronson. a prime example, cars; while these On Mr. Wonderful Bronson Like quite a few of his peers, with Bronson are at some level tries to toe the line between Bronson has found success largely spewing a collage funny ideas, experimentation and playing it safe, due to the fact that it’s 2015 and hip- of glimpses at his this style gets but ultimately it’s probably best to hop is far from just rapping (just ask lifestyle, “[riding] tiresome. just pay attention to his hits. Apart Kendrick Lamar), allowing those the Harley into the This might be from the relatively similar singles, who can leverage Internet culture sunset” on top of a surmountable most of the songs on this album are to rise to unprecedented heights. a laid-back beat issue if Bronson on the one hand not unenjoyable, Since his debut album in 2011, carried by a funky could back up but on the other not worth listening Bronson has been picked up by bassline and some his main fare to. There’s certainly something to the Vice Media empire, whose Vice drums, with a hazy -http://theearlyregistration.com with variety, be said for an artist willing to open Records imprint now distributes synth drifting over. The montage with my kidneys” and substantive but the moments when he tries to up his major label debut with a his music, while the video division is nonstop, and when Bronson remarks like “And I’m crazy tan, branch out are unfortunately often song featuring multiple errors on handles his Food Network-style finishes showing us one clip, he from all the places that I’ve been the least enjoyable. The majority his part, and who generally does show F---, That’s Delicious. starts rapping about the next thing / Just from writing words with a of his music that’s worth listening what he wants when he wants. But What is immediately apparent that comes to mind, as in the first pen.” to is found on his mixtapes and without a struggle like Kendrick about Bronson in anything he does verse where the image of him This is the fun sort of music the EP Saaab Stories, where it’s Lamar’s with racial identity, Earl is that he’s a character, and he “leaned back with the Les Paul” is we’ve come to expect from Bronson, fine for him to just throw together Sweatshirt’s with drug addiction revels in it. followed up by three consecutive prioritizing entertaining listeners a half-hour or so of in-your-face and depression, or Death Grips’ His lyrics are dominated by lines about the quality of his weed, over making an artistic statement, material and call it a day, but the with social norms, it really doesn’t lines about food, sex, and analogies “[spilling] dressin’ on the vest at the but the problem is that this limits artistic expectations that come seem like Bronson has a lot to relating the two, and while his flow festival,” and how he “best of all, what he’s capable of producing. along with a major label debut rap about, and the album suffers doesn’t stand out too much from had a midget Puerto Rican at [his] “Actin Crazy” is another single don’t play well with this strategy. as a result. Action Bronson is an other New York-area rappers, his beck and call.” Entertaining and with a theme similar to that of Bronson seems to realize this entertainer, and at the end of the tastes for rock-influenced beats somewhat tongue-in-cheek lyrics “Easy Rider,” as Bronson delivers and makes an effort to cover new day I’d rather watch him do absurd and absurd lyrics have helped paint like these make Bronson’s antics embellished rhymes centered on his territory, resulting in oddities such things than hear him rap about it an unforgettable picture. amusing, but overall it’s pretty one- crazy life such as “Uh, all I do is eat as “City Boy Blues,” a four-minute decently at best.

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EMAIL [email protected] WITH QUESTIONS. Feature 4 March 30, 2015 THE CALIFORNIA TECH Techer learns lessons, Caltech Space Challenge asks gains perspective from students to tackle speculative fifth grade classroom mission design problem KSHITIJ GROVER 65% are curious. These kids care Contributing Writer about why something happens or CASEY HANDMER without giving too much away to At 1 p.m. we reassembled for what makes the computer act in a Contributing Writer the other team. the presentations. Team Explorer Every Friday, I take a couple specific way — at a very basic level, On Wednesday everyone was went first, and the Voyagers sat in hours out of my day to visit this is the first sign of intellectual During spring break most bused up to JPL for a workshop profound suspense waiting for the an underserved school in the engagement, and the mark of any Caltech students enjoyed a week of session with the A Team, a group first slide to drop. For the next hour, Pasadena area, attempting to teach academic. Out of this 65%, I’d say well-earned rest and recuperation. of people whose job is literally Explorer explained to us and the the basics of computer science with about 33% (at the fifth grade age) are This was not so for the participants dreaming up crazy mission ideas judges the essence of their mission an amazing team of undergrads motivated to learn about it. Here’s of the Caltech Space Challenge, held and speccing them out. I felt as design. Surprisingly similar to our from Caltech. To be honest, I didn’t where I want to focus my efforts from March 22 to 27. Conceived in though I was in the company of own, matching political, science, think it would be that challenging moving forward with this program: 2011, the Caltech Space Challenge gods, larger-than-life personages and crew support needs involved at first — after all, I’ve been at their my gut feeling is that the leap from brings together 32 of the brightest 12 feet tall and capable of shooting a Falcon Heavy-launched Habitat stage and I’ve dealt with young kids wonder to curiosity comes innately young minds in aerospace from laser bolts from their eyes. Our module and an SLS-launched in the past. Piece of cake — just and with age, but making the shift takes some time. from being curious to acting on it Boy, was I wrong. can be taught. Whether teachers present material in a novel way or I was shocked at nearly homemade experiments bring out every step; things have changed the life in a boring topic, curiosity dramatically in the last decade. is the perfect starting point. Here’s what surprised me most in the classroom, disregarding • Luck is a big part of material-specific revelations: education. There are so many things that • Technology ≠ Magic. need to go right in the classroom, Especially in the Silicon Valley, and it’s something I’d never thought there’s this false sense of belief about. As a fifth grader, most of that technology will suddenly lead this isn’t in your control. Your to innovation in the classroom — teacher can’t be a drag — otherwise stemming from increasing access you’ll despise the material. The to resources. I disagree. The environment at home needs to be students we work with uniformly healthy — otherwise you won’t want have access to Chromebooks. They to step foot in school. Financials regularly use Google Docs as fifth need to be in order: at the end of Team Voyager brainstorms ideas in Mission Operations Control at JPL. Photo Courtesy of Randii Wessen/A-Team Lead Study Architect for JPL’s Innovation Foundry graders (!). They can explore on the day, school isn’t free. Friends their own with code.org or Khan matter: say no all you want, but universities around the world to interactions couldn’t have been Orion with three astronauts, a 25- Academy. Yet, there are classrooms peer pressure is an ingrained part tackle a speculative mission design more different, as the experts day stay orbiting the moon, with with immensely better learning of society. The person who sits problem. Split into two teams of 16, proved to be profoundly humble 8 days at each end to get to and environments than others: this across from you all year in fourth each team worked independently and very enthusiastic, I found from. Both teams had to confront comes from the teacher’s ability grade? It makes a difference. I in secret to bring their plans to getting an “I don’t know” to an the reality that we collectively to focus and direct the class, not can’t list all the factors here, but fruition. The team in which I was answer empowering. When we know nothing about what’s inside how many laptops they have or there’s no easy way to pinpoint why a participant (Voyager) set to work worked out the details ourselves, asteroids. Devising methods to how well-trained the students are someone is having a hard time in on Sunday night in the palatial we were now the world experts. discover what we don’t know is at in surfing the internet. Of course, school, especially when they’re as Keck Institute for Space Studies, a Thursday night bled into Friday the heart of science and, in a very the discipline of the students, young as 10 years old. I chalk it up major sponsor of the entire event. morning as the finishing touches Bayesian sense, is often driven by their backgrounds, etc. are all in to luck simply because this is the The problem: Design a mission were added to our report, fact sheet what we know how to discover. play here, but technology is no part of education that’s hardest to from the ground up to send and slide presentation. With one Then it was our turn. Slides magic pill. A child being able to change. It’s the part of life that’s astronauts to a captured asteroid hour to go the report integration blurred before my sleep deprived activate Siri, unlock an iPhone, hardest to change. near the moon, extract resources, reached fever pitch. Wholesale eyes, I rose to moderate the Q&A and download an app doesn’t Maybe the most important and have everyone survive. With abandonment of version control section, and then we had to pack correlate with the tangible basics of lesson here is sometimes you have fewer than 2,000 person hours, and collaborative editing added up and prepare for the evening education. There are real problems to get up and see it for yourself. that’s exactly what we did. Voyager drama and desperation. With reception and closing ceremony. A here that we can’t solve with a Teaching these young kids has and Explorer broke into subteams seconds to spare the relevant PDFs week of tremendous opportunity, wave-of-the-hand startup. taught me more than I could have concerned with orbits, propulsion, were dumped onto a flash drive and collaboration, discussion and ever imagined. science, risk management, vehicle whisked away to the judges and, creation, the Caltech Space • Wonder -> Curiosity design, environmental control intensely relieved, we stumbled Challenge was a dream come true. -> Motivation. Huge shoutout to Darius, David, and life support, human factors, away to lunch. Here’s where the education Joe, Matt, Meera, Phillip, Sachi, radiation shielding, guidance, system needs to be taking its Sid and Zack (among others!) who navigation and control, system, biggest leaps. Nearly 100% of have regularly helped out and policy and outreach, structures these students are blown away by been amazing with these kids. The and thermal, and a myriad other video games or animations: the Microsoft/Caltech partnership factors necessary to have a hope end result. They love the way the (https://www.facebook.com/ of meeting the competition characters in Frozen move around CaltechMicrosoft?fref=ts) and requirements. Working in and how their favorite cars dart Outreach@Caltech (https:// one room was a great way to from one edge of the screen to the teachlearn.caltech.edu/) have also dynamically reallocate human other. Out of that 100%, about been invaluable here. resources to solve problems as they emerged. However, we didn’t spend Research Spotlight the entire time in the workshop. Program organizers scheduled The Tech would like YOU to submit your re- a series of gripping lectures by search! If you would like your research fea- the leading luminaries from JPL, Lockheed Martin, SpaceX, tured, submit part of your research paper, your Planetary Resources, and several abstract, pictures of your lab, and/or pictures other key players in aerospace engineering. After each lecture of your cool science to be featured in the pa- we grilled the presenters for Team Voyager’s Mission Concept involved a Falcon Heavy-launched Habitat per. Email [email protected]. information, trying to seem module and an SLS-launched Orion with three astronauts. specific and knowledgeable Photo Courtesy of Structures sub-team (of Voyager’s computer aided design team) Sports THE CALIFORNIA TECH March 30, 2015 5 Baseball hosts MIT, no foul play detected yet... GOCALTECH.COM single to right centerfield to bring in order in the top of the fifth, Actual Sports Content Editor Jacobs home. McCarren brought sophomore MIT exploded for another six Schaeffer Reed (Miami, Fla. / PASADENA, Calif. (Mar. 26, runs in the top of the third, but Westminster Christian) home to 2015) – Two of the most prestigious the Beavers’ bats stayed consistent make the score 12-6. schools in the entire world clashed with two more runs of their own. MIT mustered three runs in in sunny Southern California as the Caltech loaded the bases with no the sixth inning and Caltech was Caltech baseball team hosted MIT outs, setting up sophomore Chris unable to score despite getting two on Thursday. Bradley (Half Moon Bay, Calif. / men on base with just one out, but The Beavers outhit the Serra), the water polo star making the Beavers did get back on the Engineers through the first seven his debut with the baseball team board in the seventh as Chou led innings but MIT took advantage today, for the bases-loaded walk off with a single, stole second and of a whopping 14 walks and four in his first-ever plate appearance third and scored on a groundout by errors to claim the victory, 23-7. to bring home freshman David Levine. MIT improves to 4-2 this season Watson (Fort Collins, Colo. / After three scoreless innings while Caltech drops to 2-19. Windsor). With starter Kyler in the last four, MIT managed The Engineers took a 2-0 lead Kocher departing the mound at another six-run outburst in the top in the top of the first thanks to that point, Jacobs then added of the eighth and pushed two more back-to-back leadoff walks and a to his RBI count with a single across in the ninth as the Beavers’ passed ball that allowed one run to left center, plating freshman bats were kept quiet down the to score on a groundout and the Garrett Levine (Columbus, Ohio / stretch. other on a sacrifice fly. MIT tacked Columbus Acad.). Chou and Jacobs led the on four more in the second, but Caltech scored another run in Beavers with three hits apiece Caltech struck in the bottom of the each of the next two innings while while McCarren, Watson and frame to pull the margin back to shutting down MIT. A leadoff senior Ryan Casey (Valencia, Calif. four at 6-2. Sophomore Harrison infield bunt single by freshman / Valencia) each recorded two hits, Jacobs (Tucson, Ariz. / Catalina Chris McCarren (Kenilworth, Ill. with Watson adding two walks. Foothills) laced a double to deep / North Shore Country Day) set Jacobs and Levine tallied two RBI left field to score senior Derek the table for Levine to rip a double each, while Jacobs led the pitching Kearney (Carlsbad, Calif. / La down the left field line in the fourth staff with just one earned run and a Costa Canyon) for the Beavers’ first inning. After senior Oliver Curtiss strikeout over 1 2/3 relief innings. run and junior Daniel Chou (Blue (Hudson, Ohio / Western Reserve Harrison Jacobs really hit the ball out of the park with that one. Bell, Pa. / Wissahickon) smacked a Acad.) sat the Engineers down -http://gocaltech.com Lebby and Joshi use power of friendship to win

GOCALTECH.COM Lebby carried the momentum Actual Sports Content Editor into his match at #4 singles, taking the first set 6-3. Sophomore PASADENA, Calif. (Mar. 23, Ruthwick Pathireddy (Irvine, 2015) – Sophomore Morgan Lebby Calif. / Whitney) dropped a (Laguna Beach, Calif. / Laguna tiebreaker at #1 as the Boxers Beach) and junior Rushikesh Joshi took the first set in the other three (Sunnyvale, Calif. / Archbishop singles matches, but sophomore Mitty) won their second straight Sathwick Pathireddy (Irvine, Calif. match at #2 doubles against / Whitney) dominated the second West Region No. 10 Pacific (Ore.) set at #3, 6-1, to force a third set University on Monday morning. while Lebby also found himself in With a 2-1 Pacific lead in hand a third set. after doubles, three of the top four Meanwhile, Pacific picked singles spots were hotly contested up a quick win at #2 singles and through the first set before the the regionally ranked Giancarlo Boxers separated themselves in Battaglia claimed #1 to bring the what became an 8-1 victory. Pacific Boxers within a point of clinching Grace Yao has been doing pretty well at tennis (according to my very accurate Caltech sports inside source). Here is a improves to 9-2 overall while the match, which they did with photo of her gingerly redirecting the ball toward her opponent. Caltech dips to 4-5. victories at both #3 and #4. -http://gocaltech.com The visitors jumped out to the Pacific tacked on two more as #5 2-0 lead with quick wins at #1 and and #6 singles followed the first #3 doubles, but Lebby and Joshi four matches, although junior got an early break at #2 and held Alexander Henny (Scarborough, on for the 8-4 victory to halve the Maine / Scarborough) made his deficit before singles play. opponent work for the victory at #5 (6-2, 7-5).

Morgan Lebby watches his partner Rushikesh Joshi go for the ball, knowing Stop. Wait a minute. Fill my cup, put some of my love for Mary Boyajian in it. that they will celebrate victory together later. -http://gocaltech.com -http://gocaltech.com Announcements 6 March 30, 2015 THE CALIFORNIA TECH

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BRAD CHATTERGOON where I could stock a pantry and Contributing Writer fridge with food available for consumption whenever I wanted. Welcome back to Caltech for the launch of spring term. Spring is often a time of reflection marked Cons: by a change toward warmer • You do have to fend for weather after the last six months yourself. You have to find your own of chill. Spring also marks change food whether you like it or not. This for many of us. For about a quarter means one of three things: cooking, of us that change is graduation consuming only ready-to-eat foods and finally packing our bags and like cereal, or buying takeout every moving out of Caltech. For others day. I have seen people implement it’s a time to start planning a bit for each of these three scenarios and the following academic year, and if you are living off campus it is one item in particular that many important that your expectations will have to face is determining about food be sorted out and that housing options. Having lived off- those expectations be realistic. I off campus (i.e., in housing not have been part of the group that provided by Caltech) for both my claims each person will take turns -http://puzzlechoice.com junior and senior years, as well cooking, only to have that never as being off campus (i.e., in any follow through. But I also have Across 44. At any time 3. Debate 42. Chronic drinker Caltech-provided housing except heard of groups making the same 1. Exchange 46. Brief period of 4. A secret look 44. Historic period the houses) my sophomore year, I claim and doing so. This brings me 5. Curved masonary precipitation 5. Request 45. Referendum think that I am qualified to provide to my next point. structure 48. Digit 6. Payment for the 46. Ancient Roman a brief listing of the positives and 9. Hold firmly 49. Line release god negatives of living off-off, and to • The group or person that 14. Present location 50. Water hen of someone 47. Cavity some extent off, campus. you choose to live off campus with 15. Commercial 51. Floor covering 7. Remove unwanted 50. Storage space will have a bigger effect on your transaction 52. Exchange goods substances from where experience living off campus than 16. Artery for money 8. Part of a shoe wines are stored Pros: a roommate on campus would. 17. Fury 53. A quick short 9. Fuel 51. Arithmetic • More space. Living off- I place this in the cons section 18. Leg joint straight punch 10. Raucous operation off usually means an apartment because if this becomes a con, it 19. Promise solemnly 56. Not in favor of 11. Length by width 52. Value of Roman or condo shared among 2–3 will be quite possibly one of your 20. Start abruptly 59. Malevolent 12. Principal actor numerals LX people, although I have heard the biggest cons for living off campus. 22. Sodium chloride 61. Musical 13. Trim 53. Liquid extracted occasional park bench can work 24. Challenge composition 21. Roofing material from too. These apartments come not • If moving off-off for the 25. Staining substance 63. Tied 23. Large woody plant fruit or vegetables only with bedrooms but also with first time, it can be quite costly 26. Heavy metallic 65. Shaft 27. Furrow 54. Worship a living room and kitchen, which up front. Most, if not all, off-off element 67. Public violence 29. Beer 55. Asian pepper plant amounts to much more space that accommodation will lease the 28. Beam 68. Boredom 30. Liveliness and 56. Assist in one can have near-personal control living space and nothing else short 30. Oval fruit 69. Male red deer energy wrongdoing over, as opposed to space offered in of perhaps a fridge and stove, 31. Snakelike fish 70. Unit of area 31. Tree 57. Not any the house environment. and if lucky a dishwasher and 32. Consumed 71. Taunt 32. Afresh 58. Large marine food laundry unit. This means needing 35. Thoroughfare 72. Novice 33. Ripped and game fish • No requirement to enroll to purchase a bed, desk, and other 38. Run away quickly 73. Rind 34. Pitcher 60. Immense in the campus board plan. Complete furniture, as well as kitchen utensils 39. At this time 35. Blemish 62. Snare control over your diet is possible off and wares. Bearing this in mind, 40. Support Down 36. Group of three 64. Perish campus. This usually can present it is worth the investment if you 41. Subdued 1. Small piece of cloth 37. Theatrical part 66. Self itself in one of two ways. One can are planning to live off-off for the 42. Shrivelled or paper 38. Conifer eat as cheaply as possible and remainder of your time at Caltech, 43. Lubricant 2. Fatigued 41. Condensation save money. Alternatively one can and it is possible to mitigate a lot have greater decisions about what of the cost by either “inheriting” quality and type of food one wants an apartment from another group to consume, which especially great of Techers and paying them for Sudoku for pursuing the dietary side of the furniture within the apartment fitness goals. or by purchasing from an off-off graduating senior like myself (yes, • The opportunity to learn I’m selling my stuff). how to live like a real adult. With off- off housing comes responsibilities. These can take the form of needing One more thing that may be a pro to set up an account with city water or con, living off-off campus often and power, setting up an internet means that your social life is very subscription, paying bills on time, much what you make of it. It is taking out the trash, etc. They are possible to be really involved on great preparation for when you campus but it does take a bit more leave Caltech either during the work. On the flip side it is also a lot summer or after graduation. As a easier to devote more time to school case where this is relevant, I recall or hobbies outside of Caltech. opting into campus housing during At the very least, by being off-off a summer that I spent at Harvard. Caltech feels more like a place that In retrospect, this was a terrible one is strongly associated with but decision as facilities were somewhat can take a break from for a while, limited or difficult to deal with; compared to on campus, where it is for example, the dining hall was much more difficult to escape from only accessible at specific times. the Caltech bubble. Had I already experienced living off campus, I would have opted to -http://puzzlechoice.com find an unaffiliated living situation -Brad/Chad Humor 8 March 30, 2015 THE CALIFORNIA TECH

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