Day Four: The Devil is in the Details

Today’s Theme:
Try it out
Talk it out
Work it out
Find it out
So, they all came in this morning pretty confident that it would be an easy day and they would have lots of time to work on other stuff. Haha! They are learning that the devil is in the details… it’s the small things that are causing [...]

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No doubt!

“This learning thing is pretty cool.” ~ Jim (KRV Robotics class)

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Day Three: The Other Side of the Looking Glass

I’ve really made a point of pushing out to the front one or two of my helpers, and they have stepped up to the plate wonderfully. Josh has taken some ownership over this whole event and is really learning what it means to be on the other side of the looking glass. This is from [...]

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Day Two: Arrival of the Peeps

We ended up with an unexpected mix of people participating in this class. I thought it had been marketed only to high school kids so all of my planning and expectations had been geared toward a room full of teenagers. Instead, four kids and four adults found their way to the RoboLab. We spent the [...]

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Rod Serling, Help Me! I’m stuck in the Twilight Zone

Busy, busy day, one full of little details and big plans. We packed up our stuff, loaded up the suburban, ran a few errands, and headed out of Dodge around 11:30am. Forty-five minutes later, in another ecosystem, we arrived at the KRV campus. The first challenge was to find out where to get into the [...]

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MySpace Meeting

A couple of weeks ago, someone on MySpace sent me a message about robots. Just out of the blue and pretty cool. Turns out he’s a research scientist at the local base here and has done robotics with kids before, even taking them to competitions. Very, very cool. Yesterday he came up to the college, [...]

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I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
~ Kurt Vonnegut

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