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