I'll introduce you to some ideas from calculus: the limit, integration, differentiation, optimization, and maybe the fundamental theorem of calculus. $$ \lim_{x\rightarrow \infty}, \frac{\textrm{d}}{\textrm{d}x}, \int\!\textrm{d}x $$ I'll introduce you to julia, a scientific computing language being developed at MIT. It's free and readily available, which means you can use it to do cool stuff after Splash. You'll learn the basics of computations with arrays, functions, and plotting. This should all be stuff that you can use for your math classes back at home. I'll introduce you to numerical analysis, especially root finding, approximating integrals, approximating derivatives, and optimization. We'll discuss simple numerical procedures for the above problems (euler's method, Simpson's rule, Newton's method, etc.). Maybe we can outline a couple more advanced techniques. Hopefully you will feel the raw power of the computer. I am a physics guy at heart, so if we get done with these things, maybe we'll do some cool examples related to physics. Let's see ... maybe some cool chaotic systems? maybe some quantum mechanics?

Poetry like you've never felt it before. We'll take a look at all sorts of modern poetry, focusing in on poems typical of a poetry slam. Imma show you how cool poetry really is. You'll walk away thinking, holy smokes, I never knew THAT was poetry. You don't have to, but I encourage you to bring poems you've written. But really, you don't have to. You can come for the ride. This workshop is a safe space. You can say anything. Be anyone. And as a result poem content and language could be mildly offensive.