1. AI’S: WYATT CLARK & VAIBHAV GARG STUDENTS: AUSTIN GRAFT, JOSHUA VELDEZ, KELSEY MILLER Undergraduate Research Opportunity Resource

2. Task: Create a resource that will allow students to learn more about the research opportunities available to them Briefly: Create descriptions of each sub-discipline List specific opportunities

3. Sub-Tasks 1. Familiarize Student Researchers with each field 2. Discover specific/potential opportunities 3. Survey undergraduate interests/abilities/preconceived notions of each field 4. Create Web Page

4. 1. Familiarize Student Researchers with each field How can we make a page on undergraduate research if we don’t understand what professors are researching?  Have students briefly informally meet with professors in each discipline  Conduct a Free Form Interview  Let what students discover in these brief interviews guide a more in-depth interview to be conducted later  Avoid Videotaping at this stage in order to maintain a comfortable atmosphere

5. 1. Familiarize Student Researchers with each field After “researching” what professors do compare this with what the students pre-conceptions of each field were  Group members were asked to do a write up on what their impression of each field was before they conducted their “research”

6. 2. Compile List of Opportunities  Survey all professors about  Opportunities (if Professors do not have opportunities ask they what they would have students do if they did)  Required Abilities programming languages software skill level familiarity with field  Time Required Can students make own hours Can they work from home

7. 3. Undergraduate interests/abilities/preconceived notions of each field What misconceptions do students have about each sub-discipline  Uncovering these will help tune students expectations about what opportunities they will have Abilities  Documenting student abilities will help Professors tune their expectations about what students CAN do

8. Create Web Page Let what we discover direct design of web page  Avoid setting format of page in stone BEFORE students have familiarized themselves with what information they think will be important!