Chelsea Team 2014/15
Chelsea CTE High School Cisco Networking Academy Students
Participate in Network Science Research
Four Cisco Networking Academy students from Chelsea CTE High School in Manhattan were selected to participate in a cutting edge research project using network science. Students Luis Cerero, Zjahnaya E,mmanuel, Jose Lopez and David Najera and their CNA teacher John Tebbett will be collaboratingon a project with Stevens Institute of Technology throughout the 2014-15 academic year.
Funded through a grant from the National Science Foundation, Network Science for the Next Generation, known as “NetSci High”, provides an opportunityfor teams of high school students to engage in year-round research in the field of network science. The Chelsea team is among the eight teams this year made up of high school students, teachers, mentors, and graduate students from Massachusetts and New York, with collaborations at the New York Hall of Science, the Network Science Center at West Point, SUNY Binghamton, Stevens Institute of Technology, Columbia University, Boston University, and Harvard Medical School.
The students began the year in July by participating in a 10-day workshop at Boston University to learn the basic concepts of network science and the tools and technology needed to complete their research. They will continue building their programming skills and background knowledge throughout the remainder of the summer, and then will identify a research topic in September.
These students are building on the experiences of the students who took part in the program over the past two years. During the 2013/14 school year Chelsea also had a team participating. These students – Anthony Andiappen, Yessica Balderas, Khalid Iyaub and Markia Theus – gave a presentation in February to the NYC Department of Education Technology Advisory Board, at Cisco headquarters in Manhattan. In June the team also had their research poster on display at the Network Science Society’s international conference, NetSci 2014, held at UC Berkeley.
The 2013/14 team’s poster got plenty of attention at the International Network Science Society Conference at UC Berkeley in June.
An exciting new area of research, network science uses cyber infrastructures and computational and databaseapproaches to solve some of the most complex problems facing our society today. This shift in research, with itsextensive reliance on information technology tools and datasets, requires a corresponding shift in the educationcommunity that helps prepare the next generation of STEM workforce. The students and teachers who are involved in the NetSci High project are learning the skills needed to lead in our network-centric society.
Both Chelsea teams, their teacher John Tebbett, principal Brian Rosenbloom and project organizers, at the close of the BU summer workshop.
For more information about the program contact:
Catherine Cramer (ccramer@nysci.org)
Videos from the 2014 summer workshop and previous years: