Thank you ALL!
A special thanks to STEMRobotics, bellpride, Rick F. and others who have shared emails with me.
This past week was a rough one. Our new classroom software and hardware is giving us fits. They are replacing a bad server tonight. Meanwhile, grade books need to be printed, attendance needs to be fixed. Students were passed on to the next class when they failed the prerequisite class. We are getting there, but the end of one semester and the beginning of a new one is hectic without problems.
Joyous news! My new Robotics (short) class is definetly enthused and more than ready to do this. My lesson plans for yesterday were to show videos that I had downloaded to a thumb drive and taken to school. The old desktop connected to the Smart Board absolutely crawled. It turns out that the anti-virus software was keeping it from running. So, I ‘winged’ it. I pulled an old Futaba servo out of the box and taught them the difference between a servo and a motor. The students listened, eager to learn. They want to do this. For most, it is their first opportunity to learn about robotics.
Today, I managed to get my laptop working with the SmartBoard and loaded the videos from my thumb drive.
They are so enthusiastic. They want to build a robot and compete, NOW! We are not ready. They have too much to learn, but I wanted to tell you how much the students learned from your videos, what you have shared and the equipment that was donated to us. So, please continue to share the videos, info, etc!
While watching the videos, they learned what autotomous means. They were in awe. Team 254, YOU are awesome! They loved the name of your team.
We have such a long way to go, but we have an entire semester to prove that a robotics class is the best the ever!
Thank YOU ALL! YOU are AWESOME! I can’t believe it. This is reality… I actually have a robotics class. KUDOS to my administrator and math department chair and district math curriculum supervisor who made sure that we were able to do this for our students.
My students also Thank YOU!
Ann