Course$-$based Undergraduate Research Experiences $($CURE$)$ have been shown to be very beneficial for

student success. They allowed students to apply the concepts learned in a course to solve a problem that does

not have a known answer and produce results that are important outside of just completing a requirement

for a course. In the past, work started as a project such as this one has been presented at conferences and$/$or

published in a scholarly journal. There have been instances where students came up with approaches that

have not previously considered, so it is always great to see different approaches to a problem and collectively

a very good approach can be determined. However, because this is a research experience where there is not

one, and only one right answer, you cannot be told if you are doing it $$the right way$$ because there is not

one $$right way$.$ One thing you will learn with research is that it is common to try one way, find it does not

work, and then have to try another way. Your grade on the project will not be based solely on the quality

of your results; it will be primarily based on your thought process and your appropriate use of techniques

learned in this course. In other words, if you try something that seems like a reasonable and sound idea, it

does not work, you continue to iterate your approach based on what you observe in your attempts, you will

score very well on the project even if the results are not the greatest.