I'm currently sitting in Barnes and Noble preparing to write a paper (as usual), but I have a lot on my mind, so I decided to take a break and let it all out. Because it was only a couple weeks since my last post, I have a brief update. My paper submission to the ASEE Annual Conference titled "A Real-Time Model to Assess Student Engagement during Interaction with Intelligent Educational Agents" was accepted!! Woo-hoo!!! I guess that means I'll be in Indianapolis, IN come mid-June :) This past weekend I went to Princeton and presented my research at the IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC). Our paper was titled "The Positive Effects of Verbal Encouragement in Mathematics Education Using a Social Robot," and we won the Best Paper Award!! Whoo-hoo!! I didn't even know our paper was nominated until a couple days before the conference while perusing the agenda, but all praise goes to God! I couldn't have done it without him :) I know I don't live my life exactly as I should, but he keeps blessing me over and over again.
In other news, I recently found out that I will not be going to the NSBE convention in Nashville at the end of the month :( Bittersweet....I haven't seen my NSBE fam in years, but on the bright side, I won't be missing my Friday class again lol. I'll take that...plus I've already done my traveling for the month of March.
I'm happy to say that my life has been going well, and I have no complaints. There's always a bright side to everything. My journal submission was REJECTED lol, but I received a lot a good feedback from the reviewers. I will make the needed adjustments, and then resubmit it to another journal in the next couple of months :)
I have a couple of 5K races coming up next month: a few of us will be doing the ROC Race ATL on April 5th, and the GT Pi Mile on April 12th. Here lately, I've been running 3 miles about 3 days a week, but I would like to shave some minutes off my time -- I'm currently running it in approx. 32min, but I need that time to be below 30 minutes (preferably 28 minutes). The end goal would be to finally compete in a triathlon in June, but I need to get this swimming together if that's ever going to come to surface.
Alright, well I've successfully completed no work this morning. I'll chime back in sooner or later.
Until next time...toodles!!
Vonda B.
Yay, go you! Your doing good. Don't forget to give me the credit for your smarts since I pushed you down the stairs :)
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