Thank You from the Middle School

Dear Karee and Cerro Coso Staff:
I want to personally thank you for all the hard work you put into making our visit worth while, enjoyable, and educational. Every one of my students as well as myself, was personally inspired to be better and walked away from this experience having learned something new. [...]

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bzy bzy bzy

Today was a busy day. It actually started last night. We got home from robo class around 10:45pm and finally settled down for bed around 12:30am.
Phase 1: Steve’s alarm went off at 3:45am or so because he had to catch an 8am flight out of Burbank. I drifted in and out from then until 6:15, [...]

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remember

I just got done meeting with the director of the Boys & Girls club here in town. She came up to my office to talk about the robotics program they are doing in three of the schools. She’s interested in expanding it and wanted to get my ideas on the subject. We talked for about [...]

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middle school robotics

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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5th grade robotics

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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I Can Go To College

(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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Expanding Your Horizons 2008

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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Inyokern Robo Video

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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I’m a Bazillionaire

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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Community Outreach: Inyokern Elementary School

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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