User:Kbogler

[edit] Fast Facts

Name: Kimberly Bogler
Birthday: the 299th day of the year
Hometown: that is confidencial information

[edit] About Me

Hi, my name is Kimberly :-)
I have been with the same people in school since around the third grade- they are all really great people and we have become a little family over the years. I think our AP Physics class is one of our favorites because of our awesome teacher Mr.T. We have teams in class- I am on the "Speed Kids Have More Fun". That name came about when Mr. T gave us a five point extra credit project to calculate the angle the bus jumped over the bridge in the movie Speed with Sandra Bullock. Believe it or not it took us five hours and ever since our extra credit projects have been on the "one point per hour" standard. We even made a Rube Goldberg Experimentthat you can check out on YouTube. We are all very hardcare in our Physics class. In fact, we have Varsity Physics sweatpants and the most creative shirts ever.

[edit] Other Activities/Interests

Yankees
Playing/watching baseball
Science<3
Art
Clamming- a new favorite
The beach
Writing
Reading
Animals- I love my dog Max despite his new haircut.
I do the graphics for the Bay Shore Robotics.
Nation Honor Society
Making people smile
Mr.Tand Mrs Parker's classes!

[edit] Pictures

I love the City...it has so much physics in it.	When he growls at me I start to talk to him about Relativity and he stops to listen.	The lake across the canal which takes me 300 seconds to walk to.	No, I don't throw like a girl. But I can calculate the velocity of a baseball.
This was our Secret Weapon in Physics.	Me and my sister clamming. She needed a life jacket.	This is one of my favorite places.	I used to have pet rocks when I was little, now I use them to write stuff in the sand
Look, its cosmic rays!!	If you have not noticed...	I really love the water, it's just full of energy...	And I am a little strange.
Speed team does Mouse Traps.	Speed team does bridges.	Speed team does bottle rockets.	Speed team does Junior Prom.
Yes, I have Varsity Physics Sweatpants	Front of potential energy shirt. I'm NOT lazy.	Back of potential energy shirt.	Bay Shore looked hard core at Six Flags.
Back of physics shirt we made for Six Flags	Speed is scalar, get it right.	This is my Chem shirt from last year. all chemistry is physics.	Mr.T!!

[edit] BLOG

Day 1: Monday June 25th 2007

Today was basically just an introduction to everything. There was a whole lot of lectures, which were helpful and we were divided into groups. My group is headed by Mr. T's dad- Mr.T, we have meteors. I was a little confused at first (and still am a little) how they are conected to cosmic rays, but a person named Josh explained to us how meteors cause ionized trails that interfere with detecting cosmic rays. Therefore, we have to determine a way to tell them apart (i think). So far all we have to do is put up a site (which I am not exactly sure how to do) with definitions of meteors...etc. I am looking foward to tomorrow and hopefully we can get some ideas down.

Day2: Tuesday June 26th 2007

Today we did a few different group work activities. In the first group we learned how to use WinRadio and MATLAB which dealt with matrices (and I actually understood it a little after all the explanations). The second group I worked alone because no one wanted to work with me aparently. But it was ok because Mr. T, Dima and another physics teacher helped me determine at which voltage the scintilators work best. I am looking foward to learning about the video conferencing, if time allows. Tomorrow is the ribon cutting ceremony for the lab that does not exist yet, so that should interesting (I wonder if we will be wearing sombreros).

Day 3: Wednesday June 27th 2007

First, we had the opportunity to work with some different people who showed us a few interesting things. The first group I went to dealt with carbon 14 dating. After a short lecture about how when cosmic rays enter the atmosphere they collide with the neutrons of a nitrogen-14 nucleus and then the carbon-14 combines with oxygen to form carbon dioxide...etc we finally had the chance to opperate a fake accelerator. After that I observed the Cloud Chamber which showed ionized particles moving which was kind of cool.
After that, everyone gathered for the ribon cutting ceremony where the lab was officially opened. That was followed by a interesting lunch which consisted of a fabulous Mariachi band with awesome pants and sombreros and tacos. There were no tables so my lunch group got to sit on the floor like five year olds. Later on in the day we gathered with our groups and prepared for our presentations on Friday.

Day 4: June 28 2007

I really enjoyed Mike Inglis' presentation today on black holes, it was very interesting. A lot of the material he talked about was very familiar because I had read a book that dealt with black holes- I forget the name, it was some time in Middle School. After his presentation we went outside to observe the sun through a telescope that had filters on it so that we would not go blind. On the first one we saw the dark spot on the lower right and on the second one which I forget the name- we were supposed to see flame, but unfortunately I missed it. I think I will dig out the telescope that my brother used to have and start to look at the stars at night when I can't sleep.
After the lunch break my group was shown how the video conferencing worked, which was kind of cool. It made me want to go out and buy a webcam.
I am interested in doing a research project but I am not exactly sure what I would do- or how I would do it. Maybe if something can be done with the scintilators during school- does it matter if the detectors are placed next to a whole bunch of electronic devices or placed in an empty room-will the readings be the same? As you can tell- I do not have any great ideas at all.
Tomorrow is the last day, the week actually went by really fast. Despite my "painful" looks- I had a good time. I wonder if they forgot about my poster that I did instead of my art projects in Mr. Scinto's class- he said I had to win. Oh well, I thought it was a winner- just like this amazing wiki page!!

Day 5 June 29 2007

Today was the last day of the workshop. I hope that this week will help me throughout the year since there are scintilators hooked up in my school. In addition to learning about cosmic rays, I also learned about Stony Brook University as a whole a little bit and had a chance to walk around. I think I will most certainly apply there in the fall-either to the Honors College or to WISE. I am leaning more towards the Honors College because in my opinion it is better to work with a variety of people.

Despite the fact of me being the only person to make a poster...I still did not win (even though my poster was very pretty). It was a little sad because I had worked really hard on it for about two weeks.  :-( But that has not stopped me from loving physics, I am looking foward to AP Physics C next year!