Thursday, October 5, 2017

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

Friday, September 29, 2017

Sept 29 2017

Entrance Ticket - MakeSF South Bay Project Build Night at TechShop!
  •  Would this be Fun?  There are always opportunities to learn stuff.  Email this link to your self, and go if you want... If you go, tell me about it... Do a show and tell.

Class Agenda:

  • 12:30-12:45 - Entry Ticket - 15 min (see top of Blog for today)
  • 1:45 - 2:15 - Cisco Code
  • 2:15 - 3:20 - Rube-Goldberg
  • 3:20 - 3:30 - Cleanup

Thursday, September 28, 2017

Sept 28 2017 - Bright Bright Future

Entrance Ticket - The Bright, Bright Future of Electronic Engineering
Please read this article and think about what you might put in your portfolio of things to show a future employer.  Tell me if you think: (and by tell me, I mean, write a short paragraph)
  1. Are grades important?  
  2. How heavily  do you think employers look at grades vs other skills?
  3. What have you already done, that could be added to your portfolio list? 
  4. If you were going to show off a project at the maker fair, what would it be?

Class Agenda:

  • 12:30-12:50 - Entry Ticket - 15 min (see top of Blog for today)
  • 12:50 - 1:00 - What are we going to be doing for the next few weeks
    • Arduino - Getting Started with Sketches
    • More Sensors - Presentation skills
    • Rube-Goldberg for "Bots and Beverages" Oct 4
  • 2:00 - 3:15 - Rube-Goldberg Projects
  • 3:15 - 3:30 - Cleanup

Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Sept 27 2017 - Be Nice To The Substitute Teacher... And Keep My Room Clean!!!

Entrance Ticket - Why Attend RoboBusiness?
Please open and read about the RoboBussiness Conference I'm going to.  Read the page and Watch the Video on this page http://robobusiness.com/about/event-news/video-why-attend-robobusiness/



Put 3-5 bullet sentences in a google doc and turn it into Infinite Campus.  Turn in by 12:45
Turn in Assignments  Infinite Campus Assignment

Class Agenda:

Tom, My Closet and Office should remain closed for class.  There is not anything that the Students should need... they should have already got what they needed for their projects
  • 12:30-12:45 - Entry Ticket - 15 min (see top of Blog for today)
  • 12:45 - 1:30 - Rube-GoldBerg Coding.  Get Help form each other
  • 1:30 - 2:45 - Rube-GoldBerg Duct Tape and Super Glue...
  • 2:45 - 3:00 - Student Photos over in Student Counseling Center
    • Pick up a slip with your name on it.   - (Tom,  please hand out slips with studnet names, and take them over to the Studnet Councleing Center)
  • 3:00 - 3:20 - Finnish your Rube-Goldberg setup for the Open House...
  • AND Really Clean up the Room... get stuff out from under the desk, put all the tools away,  Look around... see what can be straighten up.  Laptops off and closed, chairs under the desks...
  • 3:20 - 3:30 - Cleanup
I will do my best to be back with the classroom open for the Open House at 5:30.
  • Official Open House starts in the Auditorium at 6:00 - 6:30 (drop your parents off there and come back to the class for final project setup)
  • Class rooms open from 6:30 - 7:30

Sept 26 2017 - More Rube-Glodberg... Plus... Hey we have a M&M sorter...

Entrance Ticket - Ask me For a Job 
  • Monitor
  • Clean White Board
  • Bolts
  • Tools
  • Solder Stations
  • Move Pronters
  • Drill Holes
  • Resistors of Sadness
  • DMMs
  • Wipe down desks
  • Extension Cord for Lab stations
  • Kennie's Stuff...  
Class Agenda:
  • 12:30-12:45 - Entry Ticket - 15 min (see top of Blog for today)
  • 12:45 - 1:30 - Rube-GoldBerg Coding
  • 1:30 - 3:15 - Rube-GoldBerg Duct Tape and Super Glue...
  • 3:15 - 3:30 - Cleanup

Monday, September 25, 2017

Sept 25 2017

Entrance Ticket - Ask me for a job
Class Agenda:

  • 12:30-12:45 - Entry Ticket - 15 min (see top of Blog for today)
  • 12:45 - 1:45 - Rube-GoldBerg Coding
  • 1:45 - 3:20 - Rube-GoldBerg Duct Tape and Super Glue...
  • 3:20 - 3:30 - Cleanup