Talk:HGAPS Student Projects

Comments and Suggestions

Should we add a denotation for high school students in the Key for student projects? JVMiller144 (talk) 17:18, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

Yes, that is a good thought. Three asterisks? Eyoungstrom (talk) 12:03, 31 July 2022 (UTC)

Products that don't fit the "Student Presentation" mold

• Josh's clinically significant change app Joshal (talk) 19:08, 11 November 2021 (UTC)
• Josh's R package Bouldr Joshal (talk) 19:08, 11 November 2021 (UTC)

What qualifies for inclusion as an HGAPs Student Project?

Is this page meant to capture any research product that any person connected to HGAPS has created? Or are there criteria for how HGAPS-y the products has to be to count? Joshal (talk) 19:08, 11 November 2021 (UTC)

Great question! Yes, it's meant to capture any student project that is meant to be shared with a larger audience. So the filter for inclusion on this page would be:

• Did it include a student doing work?
• Was it intended for a larger audience than just the course participants?
• Did it involve a clear connection with HGAPS? (<-- this is the fuzziest -- could be generated at an HGAPS meeting, by as student independently as an HGAPS activity, or using skills or templates from HGAPS with the producer deciding to "share back")

I just made a new section for the presentations from the ECON classes taught by Chris Mumford as an example.

By these criteria, the Azure and the Bouldr package are neat examples. Definitely appropriate to list, and I would give them a new separate section. They aren't peer reviewed (yet, anyway), but they were built to share. Keeping them in a distinct section clarifies that they were not peer reviewed. Toolforge tools, new Wiki templates and userboxes (@Brei, I am looking at you!), a selection of infographics -- all of those are good candidates for additions, and if we get the Rapid Grant to update the "back catalog" of our work, then that could help with a sprint to reflect that work better on these pages, too.

Two other things that your question made me realize: I haven't bothered to track or report any of the presentations that occurred at "University Research Day" type events. I suppose that was academic snobbery; they aren't peer reviewed, so I have not tracked them on my own CV, and don't encourage graduate students to track them. But they can be very helpful and interesting teaching and learning experiences, and they definitely are easier for students to access with fewer expenses and resources needed. So I would like to start tracking them going forward. Wikification and HGAPification of conference presentations will go a huge way towards leveling the playing field! We should track that. :-)

And the volume of products generated is large. In the short term, there's probably value in showing that here -- much of the work has been invisible inside Wiki.

In the medium term, we'll probably want to have "greatest hits" and more complete lists separated, and probably some rules of thumb about when to chunk and split. I look forward to hearing others' thoughts and suggestions!

Big thanks, and very proud (and amazed) by all that you guys are learning and producing!

-- Eyoungstrom (talk) 16:37, 13 November 2021 (UTC)

P.S. "built to share" popped for me as a nice core principle for both Wiki and HGAPS! --Eyoungstrom (talk) 16:51, 13 November 2021 (UTC)