diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 7460e13e0..55953d828 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -2,4 +2,5 @@
 .vscode/
 uv.lock
 visualization-env
-.venv
\ No newline at end of file
+.venv
+.venv_visualization
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/02_activities/assignments/assignment_1.md b/02_activities/assignments/assignment_1.md
index 74d1323aa..3e913f8df 100644
--- a/02_activities/assignments/assignment_1.md
+++ b/02_activities/assignments/assignment_1.md
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@
 ### Requirements:
 
 - During every class, follow along with sample code from the slides. All code that you should be running in Python is formatted as follows:
+`
+For day 15 01 2026 check: "02_activities\assignments\participation\15_01_2026.ipynb"
+`
   
   > If code in a slide looks like this, you should be running it to generate results.
 
diff --git a/02_activities/assignments/participation/15_01_2026.ipynb b/02_activities/assignments/participation/15_01_2026.ipynb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..132167dfb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/02_activities/assignments/participation/15_01_2026.ipynb
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+{
+ "cells": [
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": 1,
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "import numpy as np\n",
+    "import matplotlib.pyplot as plt\n",
+    "import pandas as pd\n",
+    "import scipy\n",
+    "import PIL\n",
+    "import requests"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": []
+  }
+ ],
+ "metadata": {
+  "kernelspec": {
+   "display_name": ".venv_visualization",
+   "language": "python",
+   "name": "python3"
+  },
+  "language_info": {
+   "codemirror_mode": {
+    "name": "ipython",
+    "version": 3
+   },
+   "file_extension": ".py",
+   "mimetype": "text/x-python",
+   "name": "python",
+   "nbconvert_exporter": "python",
+   "pygments_lexer": "ipython3",
+   "version": "3.11.9"
+  }
+ },
+ "nbformat": 4,
+ "nbformat_minor": 2
+}