Extreme Citizen Science: Building Intentions and Rewarding Risk-taking in Systems Engineering

Explore the principles of Extreme Citizen Science through a 30-minute Wolfram workshop focused on the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority Systems Engineering Study. Dive into the design, iteration, and production of integrated systems, emphasizing the importance of identifying and quantifying system goals, generating designs, and implementing responses. Learn how to optimize system efficiency and performance using agile processes while considering interactions with people, society, and ecosystems. Discover how to design, conduct, analyze, critique, and display meaningful research, with a focus on rewarding risk-taking through rubric-assessed processes. Engage in the development of a Polarimeter from scratch using an Arduino microcontroller, ModelPlug library in Wolfram System Modeler, and Wolfram Mathematica's computational functionality. Experience the power of Computational Essays in creating rich narratives of achievement, data wrangling, uncertainty, and calibration. Apply these concepts to real-world scenarios, such as determining sugar content in soft drinks for athlete nutrition investigations, while learning to move beyond the rhetoric of risk-taking towards practical implementation.