There’s been lots to write about in the past few weeks, and not enough time to write about it all. I’ll have to play catch up next week sometime when things will be quiet around here. I’ve been super busy this week teaching a “Robotics for Middle Schoolers” class at the local high school. It’s [...]
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We had lots of tech problems yesterday but finally got started. I asked the kids if they remembered me from their trip to the college a few weeks ago and they said “yeah, you are Mrs. Emilee, Rachel, and Matt’s Mom!”
Stuff like this is AWESOME! This is why I teach
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(20 mins/session * 77 5th graders/session * 3 sessions in a row) + (legos + robots) + candy = [you do the math!]
It happened again. Over 200 5th graders invaded the college. With a little help, I tossed legos all over a classroom, showed a few robots, talked about sensors, and told them to [...]
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Saturday (March 15th) I had an opportunity to lead a workshop for the local Expanding Your Horizons conference sponsored by the Ridgecrest Women of Math and Science. This amazing conference is open to middle school girls and is designed to encourage girls to pursue non-traditional careers in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) areas. [...]
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The 5th grade teacher put together this video of the robotics project we did last spring in her class. She showed it to the SSUSD school board and from what I hear, they loved it. If anyone ever gives me a hard time about paperwork again, I’m going to pull this out and let them [...]
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Posted in robotics on July 30, 2007 | No Comments »
Legonomics
Gold is dumb. What can you do with it? Gild stuff — lilies and Capitol buildings and whatever — or cram it into your cavities, that’s about it. So I’m glad the U.S. dropped the gold standard back in, um, back in whenever they dropped the gold standard. But I can’t seem to get fired [...]
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I’ve spent the last two days working with 36 fifth grade students at Inyokern Elementary School. We’ve been trying to plan a time all year when we could do a robotics activity. They came to our “I Can Go To College” day a few weeks ago and the timing was right to set something up [...]
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“Robots are COOL!”
~Inyokern 5th grader
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Today we took the legos to Inyokern School, to Emilee’s 5th grade class. We’ve been talking about this for months, and now that the school year is almost over, we finally had the opportunity. Robert, Danny, and Joe came to help out. We got there as lunch recess was ending and the kids were all [...]
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Tonight was the last night of robo class. As always, mixed feelings. Glad the semester is over, for a lot of reasons, but I will really miss that class. How many students leave a class proud to be alumni? Wanting shirts professing they are “Robo-Vets”? This whole class did! The energy, the enthusiasm, the motivation, [...]
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