Jan 30, 2018 - FlexFactor Prep and a Quiz or 2

Entrance Ticket - Flex Factor Quiz or 2


You can review the business basics slides

•  Quiz Question #1: What do you think are the skills and traits required to be a successful entrepreneur? 
• Please answer in about 200 words
• Please think about the skills you used to create your Flex Factor presentations.  What skills would you or your team need?   List each skill and explain why it would be important.

• Quiz Question #2: Could you see yourself being a business owner? Why or why not? 
• Please answer in about 200 words
• What would the benefit of owning your own business?
• What would the challenges be?  What issues would you need to worry about? 

Class Agenda:

• 7:30-8:10 - Entry Ticket - 40 min (see top of Blog for today)

• 8:10 - 8:20 - Walk over to Auditorium

• 8:20 - 9:20 - Last tweak of your slides

• 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Jan 29, 2018 - Want so Extra Credit? - Shadow Day

Entrance Ticket - Put class back together... and if not, then pick an Instructables to work on..

Class Agenda:

• 7:30-7:40 - Entry Ticket - 10 min (see top of Blog for today)

• 7:40 - 7:50 - What is going on?
• Bulletin
• Shadow Day Jan 31 - Get a Friend
• Design Con Jan 30 -Feb 1 - Registration 

• 7:50 - 8:20 - Python... lets play with Raspberry Pi.  Go Get your Pi's

• 8:20 - 9:00 - Flex Factor Slides

• 9:00 - 9:20 - Open Lab

• 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Jan 25, 2018 - Happy Friday

Entrance Ticket - Please do any Late or Missing IC Assignment 

Class Agenda:

• 7:30-7:40 - Entry Ticket - 10 min (see top of Blog for today)

• 7:40 - 8:10 -  Work on the first  to Job Ready Career Skills at www.jobreadycareerskills.com
•    First time logging in? www.jobreadycareerskills.com
      Login using username flast.svcte and password Fc342487
      Rest your password — and remember it!  
• Do at least 2 more modules today.. We are starting a new module today. Personal Characteristics Lessons.  So do the first 2.  If you get done early, you can do 3 as well. Do the following:
• Demonstrating a Good Attitude (R) and Gaining and Showing Respect (R)

• FYI, you should have already complete the Lessons on Ethics, But if not, please go back and do them too...
• Demonstrating Good Work Ethic (R)
  Behaving Appropriately (R)
  Maintaining Honesty (R)
  Playing Fair
  Using Ethical Language (R)
  Showing Responsibility (R)
  Reducing Harassment
  Respecting Diversity (R)
  Making Truthfulness a Habit (R) 
  Leaving a Job Ethically 

• 8:10 - 8:30 - Python Level 3 (3.1 - 3.9 lessons) from Try Python 

• Spend 20 min really learning these lessons on Conditional structures

• If You have not done fir level 1 or 2, please start there. 

• Do the work in the lessons, but ALSO open your Cygwin and try it out there too...

• 8:30 - 9:20 - - Robotics Projects

• Robot Projects 
  https://steamclown-robots.blogspot.com/ 
  Please Update your Status Blog

• 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Jan 25, 2018 - More Monty Python

Entrance Ticket - HomeBrew Robotics Club

• Take a look at  this site and answer the following questions?
1. When and where is their next meeting?
2. Do you want to go?... Then go... I think I'm going to be there...
3. If you want a good resource, where you can ask questions, join their email/forum group https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/hbrobotics
4. Is there a response to the question about "Neato Motor Wiring" Or "Charging NEATO Batteries?"
5. Are there any other posts you found interesting?  Poke around and see if some one has an answer for a question you have on your robot project

Class Agenda:

• 7:30-7:40 - Entry Ticket - 10 min (see top of Blog for today)

• 7:40 - 8:20 - Python Level 3 (3.1 - 3.9 lessons) from Try Python 
• Spend 30-40 min really learning these lessons on Conditional structures
• If You have not done fir level 1 or 2, please start there. 
• Do the work in the lessons, but ALSO open your Cygwin and try it out there too...

• 8:20 - 9:20 - - Robotics Club
• Robot Projects
  • https://steamclown-robots.blogspot.com/

• 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Jan 24, 2018 - How Can Engineers Stop AI from Going Rogue?

Entrance Ticket - How Can Engineers Stop AI from Going Rogue?

•  Please answer this question.  Spend some time reading this article and then give me an answer in 50-100 words.  
• What did you find most interesting?
• What did you find most disturbing or terrifying?  

Class Agenda:

• 7:30-7:40 - Entry Ticket - 10 min (see top of Blog for today)

• 7:40 - 8:30 - Python

• 8:30 - 9:20 -Flex Factor Presentations Dry Run

• 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Jan 23, 2018 - Can Your Team Blog on the Robot Project Page?

Entrance Ticket - Get with your FLEX Factor Team - Finish Your Slides 

Class Agenda:

• 7:30-8:00 - Entry Ticket - 30 min (see top of Blog for today)

• 8:00 - 8:15 - Xilinx Demo Board De-soldering

• 8:15 - 9:00 - Python - Lets Write a Python Program
  • Lesson 2 - Getting Ready to Write a Program
  • PY4E - Chapter2 - Variables, expressions, and statements
  • Example Code - My GitHub Python Code 

• 9:00 - 9:20 - Robotic Project
• https://steamclown-robots.blogspot.com/

• 9:20 - 9:30 - Robotic Blog - Cleanup

Jan 22, 2018 - Python, Python and more Python...

Entrance Ticket - Review Chapter 1 of Dr Charles R. Severance Book and
Last Weeks Python Slides

• PY4E - Chapter 1 - Why should you learn to write programs?
• PY4E - Chapter 2 - Variables, expressions, and statements
• Python Introduction - Some python and some cygwin command line
• Lesson 1 - Running The Python Interpreter
• Lesson 2 - Getting Ready to Write a Program

Class Agenda:

• 7:30-7:45 - Entry Ticket - 10 min (see top of Blog for today)

• 7:45 - 8:10 - maybe hack Xilinx 2-3 boards

• 8:10 - 9:00  -  Lets Write a Python Program

• Lesson 2 - Getting Ready to Write a Program
• PY4E - Chapter2 - Variables, expressions, and statements
• Example Code - My GitHub Python Code 

• 9:00 - 9:20 - Robot Project
• https://steamclown-robots.blogspot.com/

• 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup & Exit Ticket

Jan 19, 2018 - Happy Friday... Let's build a Robot

Entrance Ticket - Work on any Late or Missing IC assignments 

Class Agenda:

• 7:30-7:40 - Entry Ticket - 10 min (see top of Blog for today)

• 7:40 - 8:30 - Open Lab time _ Late Robotics Club
• Robotics Club & Open Lab - Robot Projects Page
  • How are we going to manage Robot Club Going Forward?
  • Don't Drive Off the table... RoboRAVE, and RoboGames
  • Turtle Bots
  • Dalek 
  • "CouchPotato"

• 8:30 - 9:20 - Flex Factor Lecture

• 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Jan 18, 2018 - Flex Factor Presentations

Entrance Ticket - Raspberry Pi Intro Quiz

• Raspberry PI Intro Quiz

Class Agenda:

• 7:30-7:40 - Entry Ticket - 10 min (see top of Blog for today)

• 7:40 - 8:40 - Flex Factor Dry Run Presentations

• 8:40 - 9:20 - Open Labs
• Do any late IC work

• 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Jan 17, 2018 - Jobs in 2040, and Pi and Python

Entrance Ticket - What will jobs look like in 2040? 

Spend 10 min looking at the LinkedIn original post and the comments. Be ready to discuss. 

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Class Agenda:

• 7:30-7:40 - Entry Ticket - 10 min (see top of Blog for today)

• 7:40 - 8:00 - Flex Factor Slides

• 8:00 - 8:40 - Python and your Raspberry Pi kits

• 8:40 - 9:20 - Open Lab

• 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Jan 16, 2018 - SME

Entrance Ticket - There are tons of reasons to become an SME High School Member. In an IC edit box, tell me a few?
 http://www.sme.org/highschool-membership/

 Class Agenda:

• 7:30-7:40 - Entry Ticket - 10 min (see top of Blog for today)

• 7:40 - 8:20 - Open a cygwin console window 
• Start here http://linuxcommand.org/lc3_lts0010.php  Read this page about a Linux 'Shell'... then click "next" at the bottom of the page
• open a Google Doc and Take some screen shots of what you did on each page while using Cygwin and doing the labs and examples in the link 
  http://linuxcommand.org/lc3_lts0010.php
  
  Start with the page "What Is 'The Shell'?"
  and end with completing the page "Manipulating Files"
  
  On each page try out the commands and take some screen shots and save them to a google doc so I can see you actually read and tried the commands...

• 8:20 - 8:40 - What else did you not do from last week....

• 8:40 - 9:20 - Maybe so open lab time...

• 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Jan 12th, 2018 - What? More Python?

Entrance Ticket - Cygwin

• Open a cygwin console window 
• Start here http://linuxcommand.org/lc3_lts0010.php  Read this page about a Linux 'Shell'... then click "next" at the bottom of the page
• open a Google Doc and Take some screen shots of what you did on each page while using Cygwin and doing the labs and examples in the link 
  http://linuxcommand.org/lc3_lts0010.php
  
  Start with the page "What Is 'The Shell'?"
  and end with completing the page "Manipulating Files"
  
  On each page try out the commands and take some screen shots and save them to a google doc so I can see you actually read and tried the commands... 

Class Agenda:

• 7:30-8:00 - Entry Ticket - 10 min (see top of Blog for today)

• 8:00 - 8:30 - (Tom, all students should be able to logon and run this lesson.  All students should have headphones, and work independently.  Please keep them working and ask them to practice what they are learning in both the lesson and the Cygwin dialog window.)
• Python Level 2 (3-4 lessons) from Try Python Spend 30-40 min really learning these 2 lessons.  There will be a Quiz on Monday
•  

• 8:30 - 8:50 - Work on the first  to Job Ready Career Skills at www.jobreadycareerskills.com
•    First time logging in? www.jobreadycareerskills.com
      Login using username flast.svcte and password Fc342487
      Rest your password — and remember it!  
• Do at least 2 more modules today..
• Demonstrating Good Work Ethic (R)
  
  Behaving Appropriately (R)
  Maintaining Honesty (R)
  Playing Fair
  Using Ethical Language (R)
  Showing Responsibility (R)
  Reducing Harassment
  Respecting Diversity (R)
  Making Truthfulness a Habit (R) 
  Leaving a Job Ethically 

• 8:50 - 9:20 - Open Lab Time .... BUT YOU MUST BE WORKING ON SOME THING
• Open Lab activities include
• Don't Drive Off the Tables
• Other remote cars and other smaller wheeled robots 
• Udemy - learn something 
• Instructables - How to make anything 
• TinkerCAD  Something else that is technology related...   
• Pick and Watch a TEDxTalk

• 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Jan 11th, 2018 - Reach out to your Professional Network

Entrance Ticket - Reach out to your Professional Network.  

• (Tom, please have students get together in their "flex Factor teams", and discuss a few questions they "would ask an expert".  They then will research on LinkedIn to find some one to ask the question.  Please make sure students are focused on their slide presentation and discussing the Technology they are developing.  You should walk around and have each team tell you what their project is and what technology they are researching)
• Read this presentation about 4 Ways to Use Social Networks, 
• IC Assignment (or save in a Google Doc to turn in later if you have IC issues) - Answer the following question. 25-50 words per question
• Other than LinkedIn, In your opinion, which other "Social Network would be the best to connect with a company?  Why?  What makes that Social Network work?
• How can you do "Research" using a social network?
• Think of a Problem or Question you are still trying to solve or answer, for either your Flex Factor Presentation, your Arduino Engineering project, or any other class project.
• Write the introduction and question down and find some one on LinkedIn who might be able to answer the question... connect with them and ask the question.
• Submit your Introduction and Question to IC, 
• And then send it to the person on LinkedIn  
  
• REMEMBER you only have one chance to make a first impression, so think about your introduction and question.  
• Make it concise, and well structured.  
• Introduce your self, tell them you are a student at SVCTE, that it is a public High School, 
• and you are in a Mechatronics Engineering class.  
• Tell them about your project and why you are contacting them (why you think they can help you)
• Then Ask your question 

Class Agenda:

• 7:30-8:00 - Entry Ticket - 30 min (see top of Blog for today)

• 8:00 - 8:30 -(Tom, all students should be able to logon and run this lesson.  All students should have headphones, and work independently.  Please keep them working and ask them to practice what they are learning in both the lesson and the Cygwin dialog window.)
• Python Level 1 (2 lessons) from Try Python Spend 30 min really learning these 2 lessons.  There will be a Quiz on Monday

 

• 8:30 - 9:20 - Robot Club - or Open Lab Time (Tom, for my class this is open lab time, with some teams working on specific projects.  As long as they are researching, working on hardware or watching an Instructables or other tech related online class they can be considered "working")
• At 8:15, please ask the Substitute to say the following on Channel 2 on the radio... "All Teachers, All Classes, it's 8:15 on Thursday, so that means it time for Robot Club.  Please send your students in good standing that are interested in Robotics to Room 709."
• There may be 3-4 students from other classes show up.  Have them integrate into the "team" in my class.
• Robot club activities include
• Working on the Crawler  Robot - This team is comparing the behavior of the 2 robots to see if they both have the same motor operations.  DO not use any more than 9Volts
• Other remote cars and other smaller wheeled robots

• 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Jan 10th, 2018 - WoHoooo Python

Entrance Ticket - Check out Bear Robotics - http://www.bearrobotics.ai/
Would you want to work there?  If there was an Internship Opportunity would you be interested?  Here is their Github site with some open source code.... I have not looked at it... but you can https://github.com/bearrobotics

Be ready to discuss and answer questions.  No IC assignment.

Class Agenda:

• 7:30-7:40 - Entry Ticket - 10 min (see top of Blog for today)

• 7:40 - 7:50 - Getting ready for the SUB Tomorrow and Friday
• You will need Headphones / Earbuds Thursday and Friday
• How to setup and use Sub PC and Projector
• Entry Ticket Tomorrow

• 7:50 - 8:50 - Python Lesson 1

• 8:50 - 9:20 - Open Lab and Some Planning

• 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Jan 9, 2018 - Wow It's 2018... lets learn some Python

Entrance Ticket - Check out these sites "The 5 Best Websites to Learn Python"  http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-websites-learn-python-programming/

Which is the best site in your opinion and why?  Submit to 50 words to IC

Class Agenda:

• 7:30-7:45 - Entry Ticket - 10 min (see top of Blog for today)

• 7:45 - 8:00 - Welcome new Students and lets remember how to do school...
  • You will need Headphones / Earbuds Thursday and Friday
  • Class Links - www.steamclown.org
  • Google Docs - I hope you are keeping your assignments in order and giving them good names... Why? Portfolio... that's why.
  • Can we all still log into Infinite Campus - https://metropolitanca.infinitecampus.org/campus/portal/metropolitan_edu.jsp?

• 8:00 - 8:15 - What are we going to be doing this semester?
• Python and Raspberry PI
• Compete
• RoboRave - Feb 24-25  https://n2cafe.azurewebsites.net/Domain/RrCaHome Milpitas CA
• Sea Perch games - March  24? 25?
• RoboGames - April 27-29 - http://robogames.net/competing.php RoboGames 2018, the 14th annual all-events world championship, will be held in Pleasanton, CA
• Go See
• Robot Block Party - April 2018
• Makerfaire - May 2018

• 8:15 - 9:00 - Intro To Python
• Python3-Introduction.pdf
• Python Class - Download this at home too... https://drive.google.com/open?id=1UPKWtZMojmhFbLLoZgwJ_TrWYW__Vucf

• 9:00 - 9:20 -  Flex Factor Slides

• 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup