Tron Days: Horizontal Integration and Authentic Learning
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract—First year Mechatronics students at the University ofWaterloo consistently do not see the connection between their fundamentalmath and science courses with the practise of engineering.To address this issue, the first year instructors came together tolaunch a two day Hackathon style project for the students calledTron Days. Tron Days featured small warm up problems dealingwith advanced concepts in each of the courses, and big problemsthat drew from all of the first year courses. The challenges onlyhad communication marks associated with them and provided anopportunity for sustained engagement with the concepts. The metricsused to measure the event showed that it was successful at addressingthe desired outcomes, but could be further enhanced to address morematerial.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it