Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Happy Halloween

Entrance Ticket - Read each of these 3 articles and indicate what is the "problem" they were tying to solve and how well do you think they did?

Walmat and Robots 
Personalize Human-Robot Interaction
Robotic Wheelchairs


Class Agenda:

  • 12:30-12:45 - Entry Ticket - 15 min (see top of Blog for today)
  • 12:45 - 1:15 - Meet with your FlexFactor team, and each of you turn in your team list of "problems in the world to solve"  - See IC for turn in information 
  • 1:15 - 1:45 - Clean Up Room
  • 1:45 - 3:20 - Staff Halloween Haunted House, and Open Lab time... No Power tools
  • 3:20 - 3:30 - Cleanup

Monday, October 30, 2017

Oct 30, 2017 - FlexFactor

Entrance Ticket -

5 Technologies You Should Be Afraid Of

Class Agenda:

  • 12:30-12:45 - Entry Ticket - 15 min (see top of Blog for today)
  • 12:45 - 1:45 - Flex Factor Intro
  • 1:45 - 2:15 - Flex Factor Brainstorming
  • 2:15 - 2:30 - Clean up room
  • 2:30 - 3:20 - Halloween
  • 3:20 - 3:30 - Cleanup

Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Oct 24, 2017 - More Halloween...

Entrance Ticket - Student Ambassadors... if you want to join, click here...
http://www.metroed.net/svcte/students/student-ambassador-program  

Farm Loving Robots

 
Class Agenda:

  • 12:30-12:45 - Entry Ticket - 15 min (see top of Blog for today)
  • 12:45 - 1:30 - Halloween Setup
  • 1:30 - 3:00 -Halloween Projects
  • 3:00 - 3:20 - Halloween SkillsUSA update
  • 3:20 - 3:30 - Cleanup

Monday, October 23, 2017

Oct 23, 2017 - More Halloween Project. Focus on Coding, and Build

Entrance Ticket - Student Ambassadors... if you want to join, click here...
http://www.metroed.net/svcte/students/student-ambassador-program  

Class Agenda:

  • 12:30-12:45 - Entry Ticket - 15 min (see top of Blog for today)
  • 12:45 - 1:30 - Halloween Setup
  • 1:30 - 3:00 -Halloween Projects
  • 3:00 - 3:20 - Halloween SkillsUSA update
  • 3:20 - 3:30 - Cleanup

Thursday, October 19, 2017

Oct 19, 2017 - Wow... Halloween is almost here...

Entrance Ticket - SkillsUSA and Ambassadors 

Class Agenda:

  • 12:30-12:45 - Entry Ticket - 15 min (see top of Blog for today)
  • 12:45 - 3:00 - Halloween Project / Halloween Setup
  • 3:00 - 3:20 - - Exit Ticket - 
    • What did you get done today?
    • What is next?
    • What are you stuck on?
    • Turn in 50-100 Words to IC
  • 3:20 - 3:30 - Cleanup

Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Entrance Ticket - Ask me for a Job, and other room cleanup 

  • Solder Stations Cleanup
  • Labels
  • Unpack components
  • Sort Sensors
  • Capacitors - Need to learn how to read them....
Class Agenda:

  • 12:30-12:50 - Entry Ticket - 20 min (see top of Blog for today)
  • 12:50 - 1:20 - Plan a Halloween Project
  • 1:40 - 3:20 - Do Halloween Setup / Open Lab
  • 3:20 - 3:30 - Cleanup

Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Oct 17, 2017 - Clean, Speak, Scare...

Entrance Ticket - Ask me for a Job, and other room cleanup 
  • Solder Stations Cleanup
  • Labels
  • Unpack components
  • Sort Sensors
  • Capacitors - Need to learn how to read them....
Class Agenda:

  • 12:30-12:50 - Entry Ticket - 20 min (see top of Blog for today)
  • 12:50 - 2:00 - Sensor Presentations
  • 2:00 - 2:30 - Plan a Halloween Project
  • 2:30 - 3:20 - Do Halloween Setup / Open Lab
  • 3:20 - 3:30 - Cleanup

Monday, October 16, 2017

Oct 16, 2017 - Last Day for Rube-Goldberg

Entrance Ticket - Get your Rube-Goldberg working  

Class Agenda:

  • 12:30-1:30 - Entry Ticket - 60 min (see top of Blog for today)
  • 1:30 - 2:30 - Next Group to Present Sensor Presentations
  • 2:30 - 3:20 - Halloween Project
  • 3:20 - 3:30 - Cleanup

Thursday, October 12, 2017

Oct 12, 2017 - Presentations

Entrance Ticket - Turn In Any Late or Missing IC
Class Agenda:

  • 12:30-12:50 - Entry Ticket - 15 min (see top of Blog for today)
  • 12:50 - 1:50 - Sensor Presentations
  • 1:50 - 2:50 - Open'ish Lab Time 
    • SkillsUSA
    • Ambassadors Program
    • Halloween? 
    • Almost last chance to work on Rube-Goldberg
  • 2:50 - 3:20 - Halloween
  • 3:20 - 3:30 - Cleanup

Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Oct 11, 2017 - BotFacotry & Knots are a Life Skill

Entrance Ticket - BotFacotry.  
  • Tell me about what you thought of the BotFactory Demo?
  • If we got 1 or 2 for our classroom, how do you thing we should use it?
  • What type of flexible circuit would you print?  Why? What would it do?
  • Turn In 100 word overview to IC - Infinite Campus Assignment
Class Agenda:


Note to Lora, All the students should sign in at the door, and then start immediately on the entry ticket.
  • 12:30-12:45 - Entry Ticket - 15 min (see top of Blog for today)
  • 12:45 - 1:30 - Life is Full Of Essential Knots!!! 
    • Note to Lora, Next to the Desk, is a bag of Rope.  Let the students get some... Every one should participate... don;t let them tie Hangmans... Have fun.  Knowing Knots is a life skill.
    • Essential Knots for Life
    • Practice the Bow line and the Square knot, Taut line Hitch  Make sure you can tie it.  Show the Sub that you have it right. The Sub Will Check You off on the Sign in Sheet
    • Next time I see you, If I ask you to tie me one of these knots you will need to remember how.
  • 1:30 - 2:15 - I should be back by now... but it not... Try not to Cry
  • 2:15 - 3:00
  • 2:15 - 3:00
  • 3:00 - 3:20

  • 3:00 - 3:20 -
  • 3:00 - 3:20
  • 3:20 - 3:30 - Cleanup

Oct 10, 2017 - Best Presentation Ever...

Entrance Ticket - Piranha & Vander Bend
  • Please tell me what you found most interesting at either Piranha or Vander Bend, the sites we had field trips to.  In 100+ words turn in to IC
    • What was the most interesting technology you saw?  Why?
    • What skills would you need to work there?
    • If you could get an internship there for the summer, what would you want to do? 
Class Agenda:

  • 12:30-12:40 - Entry Ticket - 10 min (see top of Blog for today)
  • 12:40 - 1:20 - Best Presentation Ever
  • 1:20 - 1:50 -Update Your Sensor Presentation with new presentation tips
  • 1:50 - 2:30 - SkillsUSA - Auditorium 
  • 2:30 - 3:00 - Final last few moments of time to get your Rube-Goldberg Working
  • 3:00 - 3:20 - Open Lab Time
9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Thursday, October 5, 2017

Oct 5, 2017 - Sensor Presentations

Entrance Ticket - Bots and Beverages
ASSIGNMENT: Pick one of the companies that came, and tell me about them.  What do they do? What products do they have? What would you like to do there if you could work there? - 100 words

Class Agenda:

  • 12:30-12:50 - Entry Ticket - 15 min (see top of Blog for today)
  • 1:50 - 2:20 - Setup and Calibrate 3D Printers
  • 2:20 - 2:45 - Solder LAB (if you did not do it, or want to do it again)
  • 2:45 - 3:20 - Open LAB Time
    • Rube-Goldberg
    • Sensor Presentation
    • Udemy & Instructables
    • Printers
    • Tell me something else you want to do?
  • 3:20 - 3:30 - Cleanup

Oct 4, 2017

Entrance Ticket - Clean Up... Put Tools Away, Pick up stuff around your desk... 

Class Agenda:

  • 12:30-12:40 - Entry Ticket - 15 min (see top of Blog for today)
  • 1:30 - 3:20 - Rube-Goldberg
  • 3:20 - 3:30 - Cleanup

Monday, October 2, 2017

Oct. 2 2017 - What does it take to get a job you might love? Then 3DPrinting

Entrance Ticket - Oyvind Dahl getting a job he really wanted What does it take to get a job you might love?  Write 50-100 words pulled from this email, and your experiences. 

Class Agenda:
  • 12:30-12:40 - Entry Ticket - 15 min (see top of Blog for today)
  • 12:40 - 1:30 - Rube-GoldBerg - Get your system working with the other teams....
  • 1:30 - 3:25 - Nolan from Octiva 3DPrinitng to run a Lab
  • 3:25 - 3:30 - Cleanup