USCOTS 2025 - Program

Tuesday, July 15th

1:00 pm - 4:15 pm CT

Workshop Slot #1

Wednesday, July 16th

8:30 am - 4:30 pm CT

Liberal Arts Statistics Symposium
Memorial Union Great Hall

8:30 am - 11:45 am CT

Workshop Slot #2

1:00 pm - 4:15 pm CT

Workshop Slot #3

5:30 pm - 6:30 pm CT

Research Satellite Mixer & Social Hour

6:30 pm - 7:30 pm CT

Research Satellite Keynote

Thursday, July 17th

8:30 am - 12:00 pm CT

Research Satellite Posters & Presentations

8:30 am - 11:45 am CT

Workshop Slot #4

1:00 pm - 4:15 pm CT

Workshop Slot #5

4:30 pm - 5:30 pm CT

Exhibitor Tech Demo | Supporting Effective Data Science Instruction: Using Rguroo for Teaching Inference, Prediction, and Classification Concepts
Gerdin 0145

4:30 pm - 5:30 pm CT

Exhibitor Tech Demo | Teaching with the Free, Full-Featured JMP Student Edition
Gerdin 0464

5:45 pm - 6:15 pm CT

Orientation for First-Time Attendees
Gerdin 0330

6:15 pm - 8:15 pm CT

Kickoff Dinner, Opening Session
Memorial Union - Ballroom

Friday, July 18th

7:30 am - 8:30 am CT

Continental Breakfast (Memorial Union)
Memorial Union

8:30 am - 9:30 am CT

Keynote Session #1: Teaching about models: A unifying topic?

Beth Chance (Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo)

Memorial Union - Ballroom

9:45 am - 11:00 am CT

Breakout Slot #1

11:05 am - 12:05 pm CT

Exhibitor Tech Demo | Solving Real-World Problems using the Minitab Solution Center
Gerdin 2464

11:05 am - 12:05 pm CT

Exhibitor Tech Demo | The New Face of SAS: Our Latest Platforms for Teaching and Learning
Gerdin 0330

11:15 am - 12:30 pm CT

Posters and Beyond #1 (Memorial Union Great Hall & Campanile)

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm CT

Lunch, Birds of a Feather Discussions
Great Hall

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm CT

Keynote Session #2: A no bullshit guide to programming with LLMs in R

Hadley Wickham (Posit)

Memorial Union - Ballroom

2:45 pm - 4:00 pm CT

Breakout Slot #2

4:15 pm - 4:45 pm CT

Exhibitor Test Drive | Get Hands-On with the Free, Full-Featured JMP Student Edition
Gerdin 0129

5:00 pm - 5:30 pm CT

Exhibitor Test Drive | Meet in the Middle: Leveraging AI to Support Personalized Learning (Macmillan)
Gerdin 0129

5:45 pm - 6:30 pm CT

Speed Mentoring
Gerdin 2134

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm CT

Banquet, Award Presentations, & Banquet Presentation: Charting the course: Data science in K-12?

Zarek Drozda (Data Science 4 Everyone | The University of Chicago)

Memorial Union - Ballroom

Saturday, July 19th

7:30 am - 8:30 am CT

Continental Breakfast (Memorial Union)
Memorial Union

8:30 am - 9:30 am CT

Keynote Session #3: Students’ “attention is all you need” to transform complexity to clarity

Prince Afriyie (University of Virginia)

Memorial Union - Ballroom

9:45 am - 11:00 am CT

Breakout Slot #3

11:00 am - 12:15 pm CT

Posters and Beyond #2 (Memorial Union Great Hall & Campanile)

12:15 pm - 1:15 pm CT

Lunch, Birds of a Feather Discussions (Sat.)
Great Hall

1:15 pm - 2:15 pm CT

Keynote Session #4: Be effective; don’t be significant

Jeff Witmer (Oberlin College)

Memorial Union - Ballroom

2:30 pm - 3:45 pm CT

Breakout Slot #4

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm CT

Closing Session
Memorial Union Great Hall

4:45 pm - 5:45 pm CT

CAUSE Business Meeting

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Note: All times for USCOTS 2025 are listed in Central Time.

USCOTS 2025 - Program

Tuesday, July 15th

Wednesday, July 16th

Thursday, July 17th

Friday, July 18th

Saturday, July 19th

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