Zombie Virus Rewrite

Team: 35

School: Deming High

Area of Science: Epidemiology

Interim: Deming High School and Moriarty High School
Zombie Virus Rewrite
Team: Alejandro Baca, Courtney Keeler, Erick Chavez, Brandon Arnold

Proposal
1. what the problem is, the definition of the problem
2. why it is important, the purpose of the project or what results you hope to get
3. how you plan to work on it, plan of action or methods you hope to get.

1. Can a game zombie simulation program be rewritten to be a functioning epidemiologic tool?
2. One of the main purposes of this project is to demonstrate the flexibility of programs.
3. Take Alex Fink and Sai Emrys version of Kevan Davis' original Zombie Infection Simulation and rewrite it into a model for H1N1 containment (minus the nukes). The zombie program came from the community models library found online. The idea with this project is to rewrite it so that it simulates a health care system. Zombies are infected people, military will be doctors, the
use of a nuke will be changed to "calling in the CDC", the speed, vision distance, etc will all be changed to health care variables.


Interim Report
1. the definition of the problem,
2. your plan for solving the problem computationally,
3. a description of the progress you have made up to this time,
4. the results you expect to get,
5. and at least five citations of information you have referenced.

1. Can a game zombie simulation program be rewritten to be a functioning epidemiologic tool?
2. Using the CDC as a resource, the model will have transmission probability functions, recovery rates, and death rates in the coding of the program.
3. Two of the four team members have been learning how to program, one member has been conducting research on H1N1, and one member has just joined our group.
4. According to our teacher, ultimately our model should be more valid than Neil Ferguson and Roy Anderson’s foot and mouth disease model when factoring in training and education levels of the programmers.
5. http://www.diseasesdatabase.com/begin.asp
http://www.cdc.gov/
http://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/
http://www.hhs.gov/
http://www.nih.gov/

Team Members:

  Brandon Arnold
  Alejandro Baca
  Erick Chavez
  Courtney Keeler
  Amanda Edington

Sponsoring Teacher: Creighton Edington

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