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The year 2016 marks the thirty-year anniversary of the explosion of reactor four at the Chernobyl power plant, the subsequent evacuation of the surrounding region, and the dispersion of radioactive material across Europe. As an attempt to integrate history as a motivator in computer science, this work describes a two-day excursion to the Chernobyl exclusion zone to gather background radiation data as a part of an Operating Systems class project, as well as creating radiation, photographic, and location data sets for use in subsequent classes.
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Wolfer, J. (2017). From Chernobyl to the Classroom: A Case Study Connecting Historic Events to Class Projects. In: Auer, M., Guralnick, D., Uhomoibhi, J. (eds) Interactive Collaborative Learning. ICL 2016. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 545. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50340-0_46
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