Mesa Mid School (89)

The Mesa Mid School team (#89) is from Las Cruces. This year they've submitted a project titled Illegal Immigration.

Proposal
http://mode.lanl.k12.nm.us/get_proposal1112.php?team_id=89

Team: 89

School: Mesa Mid

Area of Science: economic

Proposal: My team proposes that the price of everything is way too high. That is obvious but we have a way to fix that and Americas debt You see people don't like high prices the government does but they just want money! I know a way to give the government money, pay off the debt, and make the people happy! We propose that if you lower the price we as the USA would earn more money. this can be proved with our new idea "The Price Effect." Our example the movie theatre shows the price effect in action.

Team Members:

 * Karina Velazquez
 * Leonel Herrera
 * Andon Jones

Sponsoring Teacher:

 * Tracie Mikesell

Interim Report
http://mode.lanl.k12.nm.us/get_interim1112.php?team_id=89

Interim:

The definition of immigration can be different to different people, because some of those people have never move from the place they live, but immigrants that go to other city, nation or continent, the definition of immigration means that you will get a better life if you go to that place, but for the people that get trapped by the authorities immigration means a life of problems with the government and the people around you.

We actually are not working in the model in the star logo TNG programming, we are actually getting data to make our model be more precise and to get more data about how the immigration is going to affect in different rates of immigration.

Up to this time we got very interesting data about the illegal immigration, and we found the pros and cons of the immigration in past years and how the immigration came more important to united states but the people in the government do not see that immigration is actually giving some boost to the ecomomy and to other important parts of the country.

The result that our team expect is that the people in the highest part of the government in our state take notice that immigrant from Mexico, Guatemala, or other parts of the world like China or Korea because there are actually still immigrants coming from that countries, and with the data will get we can show how the stadistics change to a better one when immigrant came to united states.

We don’t really want to approve that immigration is right, but we still no saying that immigration is something that is against the law. Imagine that is illegal to move from a specific place to other place, by common sense you are going to say that is not fair, then you are going to move but with no body knowing that you are moving, is the same as a immigrant is moving to the united states, Rigth?, so if the England people didn’t come to united states, maybe there with not be any united states, because the England people really came because they need a better life in other place.

Citation:
illegal immigration counters http://www.illegalimmigrationstatistics.org/illegal-immigration-a-113-billion-a-year-drain-on-u-s-taxpayers/ immigration counters http://immigrationcounters.com/ immigration myth and fact http://www.aclu.org/immigrants-rights/immigration-myths-and-facts/

Interim Comments
Team 89,

My name is Victor Kuhns. I am a Parallel Systems Engineer with Cray, Inc. I've supported large super computers for close to 13 years and was originally a challenge alumni starting in 1994.

Reading your interim report I see that you have a passion in understanding immigration issues. I'd like to possibly get you to view your project in more of a scientific standpoint versus political views. Being the supercomputing challenge, the main emphasis will be to show the judges you were able to use the computer as a tool to hopefully help solve or understand a problem.

(Department of Homeland Security)DHS has a variety of statistics on immigration. Attached is a link to a DHS document of estimates of unauthorized immigrant residing.

http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/statistics/publications/ois_ill_pe_2010.pdf

You'll see that the document if full of various numerical data which can be used to possible create a model and visualize patterns,etc. Based off the current statistics, one could write a model to show what previous figures looked like in the past and be able to show what the future may yield based of various figures.

Understanding migration models may also be helpful. Since the beginning of time, all organisms have had records of migration. Taking your project down a notch to show how Organism A and B moves and populates to place A and B might be pretty cool.

Try to show something simple if you can. Perhaps showing us a simple pattern,etc.

Does your team have a mentor to guide you with this years project? Discuss ways with your teacher to help find data that might be useful in solving a problem.

I wish your team best of luck and look forward to seeing your progress. Please remember to write the challenge board if you have any questions or need help with your project.

Regards, Victor Kuhns

Final Report
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