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The suspense is over!  The majority of the jury voted against the 1:1 technology program. The jury foreman offered his thoughts about the process and how they came to their decision : 10 voted against (CON) for 1:1 technology in Minneapolis public schools, and 3 voted (PRO).  

After the announcement, the jury were given certificates of appreciation and a special pen from the University of Minnesota Department of Aerospace, Engineering and Mechanics, which is the department where Professor Tadmor’s department usually teaches when he’s not running a brand new honors courses like this one. 

Here are some pictures from Jury Deliberation! Stay tuned for the verdict coming this Tuesday (December 11th)!

 

The trial is over and the jury is deliberating.

Here are is a pic of all of our class and professors and a pic of our volunteer jury!  

 

 

This was a wonderful experience for the all the students in the class-the legal team, science team and the media team (that’s us!).

If you are reading this and wondering what the heck we are talking about, you can go to the post from last week that explains the first day of the SciCourt trial. You can read all about it in great detail or listen to Luke Diamond’s podcast summary.

SciCourt was featured on Minnesota Public Radio on Kerri Miller’s show this morning!  

Ellad Tadmor, the creator of SciCourt, and Luke Diamond, our very own Media Team member, were on Minnesota Public Radio talking about the case and SciCourt in a segment titled "Debating issues with science".

Listen to the full interview:

Watch a video recap of the first day of the SciCourt trial. Also, find out why the members of the jury volunteered to be on the jury.

 

Listen to the Podcast by Luke Diamond to hear a recap of Day 1 of SciCourt!

So, this is pretty cool: the topic we selected to debate for our SciCourt class case was actually on the midterm ballot in Minneapolis!  On November 6th, Minneapolis voters were asked to decide if a school district should get more money to pay for more technology for students in public schools. As it turns out, 72% of Minneapolitians were willing to pay slightly higher taxes in order to put more technology in classrooms. But is this a good thing?  

Here is what Luke Diamond (pictured on the right), our intrepid podcaster, had to say:

“If you think that Science Court is just putting around issues that don't really affect the public…that don't really affect you...you might reconsider. Because this year [if you live in Minneapolis], you will be paying the government a couple hundred bucks to put tech in classrooms."

Hear more in Episode 8 of the SciCourt Podcast as Luke looks at this issue and how we will be discussing this is SciCourt:

Want to know more about the people behind SciCourt! Read on to hear directly from the instructors about why they are involved, what they do, and what they hope SciCourt will accomplish. 

Or if you would rather listen, take a look at Luke Diamond's recent podcast to hear more from the Lauren Clatch (Science Team Advisor) and Collin Tierney (Legal Team Advisor)!

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Ellad Tadmor 

Q: Why did you create SciCourt?

Watch this video, by Porter Larkin, to learn more about what 1:1 Tech really means!

We’re moving into the next phase of Science Court, as it’s time for the pre-trial evidence review. That means today is the day the judge will decide which science-based evidence will be allowed in the trial.

Listen to Episode 5 of our Podcast for an overview of the pretrial hearing by Luke Diamond:

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Or watch this video by Porter Larkin to see what went down:

 Watch the video below, by Porter Larkin, to see a recap of all our guest speakers! Continue reading to hear from our latest guest speaker U.S. Attorney Tim Rank!

“In any given case you are going to have things that are easy to talk about and things that are hard to explain.” – U.S. Attorney Tim Rank