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Masters Student in Mechanical Engineering

Address: 474 Boston Ave. Curtis Hall - Basement Medford, MA 02155

Phone: 617-627-5888 Fax: 617-627-4760 Email: william.church@tufts.edu

For the past 10 years, Bill Church has been working closely with CEEO staff on many different projects ranging from SAM to STOMP to LabVIEW development to InterLace and many other projects.  A 15 year veteran high school science teacher, Bill has extensive experience working with students and teachers as they explore STEM topics through engineering design challenges and highly interactive representations (real-world animations, robotics, real-time video analysis, real-time data collection, simulations, and ebook style student guides).  Bill lives with his wife and two amazing kids in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Physics, Binghamton University, 1992
Master of Arts in Teaching, Cornell University, 1997

Research Interests

Bill is working on developing a system for computer based augmented student observations of physical systems with rich data from realtime video analysis and sensor measurements (CBASOPSRDRVASM). He's still working on the acronym!

CEEO Responsibilities

Bill is working on developing K-12 and University STEM activities for the National Instruments myDAQ platform.

Selected Publications

Church, W., Ford, T., Perova, N., and Rogers, C. (2010), Physics With Robotics: Using LEGO MINDSTORMS in High School Education.  Paper presented at the American Association of Artificial Intelligence Spring Symposium, 22-24 May, Stanford University, California.

Church, W., Ford, T., & Perova, N. (2009), Physics With Robotics – An NXT and RCX Activity Guide for Secondary and College Physics, College House Publishing, Knoxville, TN.

Carberry, A., Church, W. (2009). HS-STOMP: High School Student Teacher Outreach Mentorship Program. International Journal of Engineering Education, 25(3) 461-467.

Church, W., Gravel, B., & Rogers, C. (2007). Teaching Parabolic Motion with Stop Action Movies. International Journal of Engineering Education, 23(5), 861-867.

Church, W, (2005). Invention: Physics and Community. The Science Teacher, (75).


Selected Presentations

American Assoc. of Physics Teachers, A picture is worth a zillion photoelectric events, Ontario, CA, 2012

T3 International Conference, TI Calculators and LEGO Robotics, Chicago, CA, 2012

American Assoc. of Physics Teachers, Physics With Robotics, Jacksonville, FL, 2011

American Association of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics in Education Symposium, CA, 2010

Pixar Studios, Animation to Teach Science and Math, Mountain View, CA, 2008

American Educational Research Association Conference, New York, New York, 2008

Tufts CEEO Data Logging Conference, Tufts University, Medford, MA, 2007

Cornell Dept. of Education Colloquium, Decade of Project Based Teaching, Ithaca, NY, 2006

UNH Leitzel Center Conference, Mentoring Models: STOMP presentation, Manchester, NH, 2005

National Science Teachers Convention, Littleton InvenTeam Project, Dallas, TX, 2005

Network of Educators in Science and Technology, Animation tools for Physics Classes, MIT, 2004

National Science Teachers Convention, Littleton InvenTeam Project, Atlanta, Georgia, 2004

Lemelson-MIT Grant Workshop, InvenTeam Workshop, MIT, Cambridge, MA, 2003