Capstone Fair
The Capstone Fair on Monday April 23, 2001 was an opportunity for PFMF as well as PFF members to share the harvest of the hard work they had put into their projects. The Arizona room in the Memorial Union was awash with photographs, pictures, images on laptops and TV’s that represented the culmination of the member’s work with Scottsdale Community College, the Sums Institute of ASU, ASU West, and Grand Canyon University. Cristina Negoita a former PFMF member now participating in the second year of PFF delivered a short speech about the benefits she’s derived from being in the program. As her second year project she conducted a study on the subject matter learned in College Algebra by giving an assessment test to students from South Mountain Community College, Grand Canyon University, and ASU.
Other PFMF members had display boards with their spring semester projects, Shelly Smith showed the ideas she’d used to teach a calculus class, Leslie Shelton had information about the Matrix Review program she’d created for a Scottsdale Community College Differential Equations class, Jimmy Mopecha displayed his experience as guest lecturer for a History and Philosophy of Mathematics class at ASU West, Bong-Sik Kim’s display board was dedicated to Using Internet Technology to make Class more Effective, Rick Archibald had information about the research he is doing for Alzeimer’s disease, and Brian Bird handed out licorice to attract people to his Least Square’s Regression project, as well as the description of the Database he has been developing for part time jobs for graduate students.
Some advice that may be useful to the future PFMF members is use bright colors and lots of pictures in your displays, avoid too much text as people don’t have time to read with so many displays around. Give out candy. The display board is sectioned into three pieces, in general those pieces are dedicated to teaching, research, and service just like the future faculty member you hope to become. You can get these display boards at Michael’s for about $5.