Governor’s School for Excellence • July 12-17, 2015 • University of Delaware
Academic Schedule
Sunday 7/12
6:30 – 7:15 p.m.
7:30 – 8:00 p.m.
8:00 p.m. – 9:00
p.m.
Program
Check-in:
Location
Lounge, Thomas
McKean
Sign in and receive keys, room assignments, program
books, and T-shirts.
Drop off luggage in rooms at Thomas McKean, put Thomas McKean
on Governor’s School T-shirt and proceed to Clayton
Hall. All cars should be parked in Clayton Hall
Parking area.
Clayton Hall
Welcome
Room 101A
Blayze Lewis, Allison Lewis, Lead Resident
Assistants
*Student Orientation
*Introduction of Resident Assistants
Quad Ice Breakers & Tour of Laird Campus
Group Pictures by UD Photographer
Clayton Hall
Room 101A
9:00 p.m.—10:00
p.m.
Governor’s School Mixer
Clayton Hall
Room 101A
10:00 p.m. – 10:30
p.m.
Expectations
Jason Thompson, Coordinator, Governor’s School for
Excellence,
Allison Lewis, Lead RA
Blayze Lewis, Lead RA
Quad’s Debrief, RAs
Clayton Hall
Room 101A
Lights out
Thomas McKean
10:30 p.m.-11:00
p.m.
11:00 p.m.
7/8/2015
Lounges, Thomas
McKean
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Governor’s School for Excellence • July 12-17, 2015 • University of Delaware
Academic Schedule
Monday 7/13
Program
Location
7:30 – 8:15 a.m.
Breakfast
Pencader Dining Hall
8:45 – 10:00 a.m.
Our Interdependent Economy
Amanda Jennings, Center for Economic Education and
Entrepreneurship, University of Delaware
Purnell Hall, room
118
Break
Purnell Hall
10:00 –10:15 a.m.
11:30 – 12:15 p.m.
Markets Simulation
Amanda Jennings, Center for Economic Education and
Entrepreneurship, University of Delaware
Social Goals and Public Policy
Amanda Jennings, Center for Economic Education and
Entrepreneurship, University of Delaware
12:30 – 1:20 p.m.
Lunch
Trabant Student
Center or Perkins
Student Center
1:30 – 3:15 p.m.
Marketing Research
Meryl Gardner, Associate Professor, University of
Delaware
Purnell Hall, room
118
Excelon Trading Lab,
Purnell Hall
3:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Stock Market Simulations
Rich Jakotowicz, University of Delaware
-orInterpreting Shakespeare
One Play, Two Meanings
Robert DeRemigio, Theatre Director
5:45 – 6:30 p.m.
Dinner
Pencader Dining Hall
6:45 – 8:45 p.m.
Odyssey of the Mind
Bill Combs, Odyssey of the Mind
Quads Debrief with RAs
Free time
Clayton Hall, room
101A
Lights Out
Thomas McKean
10:15 - 11:30 a.m.
9:00 – 11:00 p.m.
11:00 p.m.
7/8/2015
Purnell Hall, room
118
Purnell Hall, room
118
Purnell Hall, room
118
Thomas McKean
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Governor’s School for Excellence • July 12-17, 2015 • University of Delaware
Academic Schedule
Tuesday 7/14
Program
7:30 – 8:15 a.m.
Breakfast
8:30 – 12:00 a.m.
Humanities: A Series of 4 Workshops
Each student selects one of the four workshops per
session
1.
The Censorship of Rock Music Lyrics Lloyd Shorter,
Associate Professor of Music, University of Delaware
8:45 – 10:15 a.m.
Session #1:
(Select 1)
Location
2. Radio Contests, the Mickey Mouse Club and Grand
Theft Auto: Copycat Stunts, Homicide and the First
Amendment
Dr. Juliet Dee, Associate Professor of
Pencader Dining Hall
1. Amy duPont Music
Building, room 207
2. Memorial Hall, room
048
Communications, University of Delaware
3.
4.
There is no Such Thing as Free Speech (and there
never has been)
Dr. Matthew Kinservik, Associate Dean for the
3. Memorial Hall, room
049
Humanities, University of Delaware
4. Memorial Hall, room
107
The Movie Made Me Do It
Dr. Thomas Leitch, Professor of English, University of
Delaware
10:15 – 10:30 a.m.
Break
10:30 – 12:00 p.m.
Session #2:
(Select 1)
Sessions 1-4 repeated from above
12:15 – 1:15 p.m.
Lunch
1:30 – 5:00 p.m.
Movie & Critique: The Graduate
Dr. Thomas Leitch, Professor of English, University of Delaware
5:15 – 6:15 p.m.
Dinner
Pencader Dining Hall
6:30 – 9:00 p.m.
Governor’s School Summer Olympics
TBD
9:00 – 10:00 p.m.
Free Time
10:00 - 11:00 p.m.
Quads Debrief with RAs
Dorm time
Thomas McKean
Lights out
Thomas McKean
11:00 p.m.
7/8/2015
As above
Trabant or Perkins
Student Center
Clayton Hall
Room 125
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Governor’s School for Excellence • July 12-17, 2015 • University of Delaware
Academic Schedule
Field Trip Schedule Overview
Wednesday 7/15
7:30 – 8:15 a.m.
Program
Location
Breakfast
Pencader Dining Hall
Science and Engineering Field Trips
Buses loaded to go to:
8:15 – 8:30 a.m.
Exercise & Health Sciences/Visual Arts Landscape Design –
STAR Campus and Worrilow Hall
Engineering/Biology - Colburn Lab
Marine Studies - Cannon Lab, Lewes
LOAD BUSES:
Thomas McKean
See schedules for Field Trips
12:00 – 12:45 p.m.
Box lunches
On site
3:30 p.m.
Bus departs from Lewes for Thomas McKean
4:45 p.m.
Bus departs STAR Campus and Worrilow Hall for
Thomas McKean
5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
6:30 – 10:00 p.m.
10:00 – 11:00 p.m.
11:00 p.m.
Dinner
Pencader Dining Hall
Free Time
Thomas McKean
Quads Debrief with RAs
Dorm time
Lights Out
Thomas McKean
Engineering/Biology Field Trip Schedule
Wednesday
Program
Location
8:35 a.m.
Arrive at front door of Colburn Lab (Academy Street), walk over to Center for
Composites Materials
Welcome (Melissa Jurist)
9:00 a.m. – 12:00
p.m.
.
Hacking Bacteria – exploring proteins through activities that use bacteria to
bioluminesce. Activities emphasize concepts of chemical engineering.
CCM, room 106
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
1:00 – 4:30 p.m.
Lunch
General and Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy
Mary Boggs, Megan Kasprzak, Benjamin Rohe
McKinly Lab 035, 037
Students will discuss general organ system biology and dissect representatives of the Taxa
Vertebrata, make comparisons between organisms and humans and discuss the relationships
and dependence of organ systems on one another.
Board buses at Colburn Lab for return to Thomas McKean Hall
4:45 p.m.
7/8/2015
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Governor’s School for Excellence • July 12-17, 2015 • University of Delaware
Academic Schedule
Marine Science Field Trip Schedule
Wednesday 7/15
Program
Bus Departs
8:15 a.m.
10:00 – 11:00 a.m.
Bring old clothes and shoes with you as this field trip will
require getting wet and/or muddy!
Dr. Falk, Coordinator
College of Marine Studies, University of Delaware
Overview of Research and Outreach at the College of
Marine Studies
12:00 – 12:30 p.m.
Boxed Lunches
Planned Activities—students divided into 3 groups and
participate in one activity involving hands-on collection and lab
identification:
3:00 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
3:45 – 5:45 p.m.
Thomas McKean
Hall
Welcome
11:00 – 12:00 a.m.
12:30 – 3:00 p.m.
Location
Marsh Madness: Ecology of the Great Marsh
In-Seine: Biodiversity of Fish Species
Sand Storm Survival
Cannon Lab, Lewes
Cannon Lab
Cannon Lab, room
104
Identification:
Cannon Lab
Delaware Great
Marsh
Delaware Bay
Lewes Beach
Compile Data and pictures
Return Trip to Thomas McKean Hall
Thomas McKean
Hall
Health & Exercise Science Field Trip Schedule
Wednesday 7/15
Program
Location
8:45 – 9:00 a.m.
Welcome
Dr. James Richards, Professor of Health and Exercise
Sciences, University of Delaware
Michell Provost-Craig, Associate Professor of Health and
Exercise Sciences, University of Delaware
9:00 – 12:00 p.m.
Morning Session—Students will be divided into two
groups of 12-15
Exercise Physiology and Metabolism.
Group 1
Bring or wear a bathing suit to have body composition
tested.
Group 2
Biomechanics
Wear bathing suit or exercise clothing to be test subject.
12:15 – 1:15 p.m.
Box Lunches
1:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Afternoon Session--Repeat of Morning Sessions
Group 1
Biomechanics
Group 2
Exercise Physiology and Metabolism
4:45 p.m.
Bus pick up for return to Pencader Dining Hall
7/8/2015
STAR Campus
Fred Rust Ice Arena
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Governor’s School for Excellence • July 12-17, 2015 • University of Delaware
Academic Schedule
Thursday 7/16
7:30 – 8:15 a.m.
8:30 a.m.
9:00 a.m. –12:00
p.m.
Program
Breakfast
Location
Pencader Dining
Hall
Depart for Memorial Hall
International Decision Making:
Global Economics
Dr. Jason Mycoff, Associate Professor of Political Science
Memorial Hall,
room 111
and International Relations, University of Delaware
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
1:00 –2:30 p.m.
Lunch
Break-out sessions
Trabant or Perkins
Student Center
Memorial Hall,
room 112, 113, 122,
124
2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Final Negotiations
4:00 – 4:30 p.m.
4:45 p.m.
Debrief
Return to Pencader Dining Hall
5:00 – 5:45 p.m.
Dinner
6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Introduction to Chinese Culture
Confucius Institute
9:00 p.m.-11:00 p.m.
11:00 p.m.
7/8/2015
Memorial Hall,
room 111
Quad Follies
Quads Debrief with RAs
Lights out
Pencader Dining
Hall
Christiana
Commons lounges
Lounge, Thomas
McKean
Thomas McKean
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Governor’s School for Excellence • July 12-17, 2015 • University of Delaware
Academic Schedule
Friday 7/17
7:30 – 8:15 a.m.
9:00 a.m. – 12:00
p.m.
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Program
Breakfast
Pencader Dining Hall
Leadership & Team Work
ROTC
Military Science and team
Clayton Hall, room
125 and outside
Lunch
Pencader Dining Hall
Clayton Hall, room
125
Cultural Awareness
Stacey Hendrix
Foreign Languages and Literature
3:00 – 4:45
Location
Return to Thomas McKean
Thomas McKean
Students return keys and meal cards, prepare for
closing ceremony and take luggage to Christiana
Commons lounges. Dress and depart on buses starting
at 5:00 to Center for the Arts.
5:00 – 6:00
Board buses to Center for the Arts
building for light dinner and closing
ceremony. The bus will only make 3
trips so be sure to be on one of them!
Closing Ceremony
Dr. James Broomall, Associate Provost, University of
Delaware
Mr. Mark Murphy, Secretary of Education, State of
Delaware
6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
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8:30 - 9:00 p.m.
7/8/2015
Musical Performances—Instrumental &
Choral Music Students
Theatre Sampling—Theatre Students
Academic Review—Academic Students
Slide Presentation
Thomas McKean
Center for the Arts,
Thompson
Auditorium
Awarding of Student Certificates
Center for the Arts
Students/Parents return to Christiana Commons to
collect luggage. All students must turn in their
room key and meal card to avoid charges.
Christiana Commons
lounges
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