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September 30, October 1, & 2

Robotics 8A Today you started designing a personal accessory such as a bracelet, ring, watch, etc in Sketchup. You will be given the double period to work on this next class and it will be due at the end of the day. Remind me to show you the bell that I tried printing based on

September 25, 26, & 27

Robotics 8A Make sure to have handed in your Duplicate Sketchup assignment by midnight tonight, Wednesday, September 25. Upload it to Google Drive and then share it with me ([email protected]). Please remember how I asked you to name the file “Name-Section-Assignment” so for example I would name my file “JeremyL-8A-Duplicate” This way it makes it

September 19, 23, & 24

Starting today, I am only going to post on Day 1 and Day 4 in the schedule, I will post for all three classes at each grade level during this time. Robotics 8A I was disappointed that very few of you brought in your objects to copy as well as rulers. This made it difficult

Wednesday, September 18

LifeSkills 9-21 Please remember to bring back your health/medical forms as they are due tomorrow. Robotics 8C We continued to look at how we can get an object to go in a straight line. Those groups that did not start off by planning and designing went back and started with this very important stage. Robotics

Tuesday, September 17

Robotics 8B Today we continued to work on the “Programming a Human” assignment and realized that it is not as simply as we first thought. Please make sure that you finish it for next class we will be testing them out and handing them in. We also attempted to do the tutorials for Scratch. If

Monday, September 16

Robotics 8A Today we finished the tutorials and began working on trying to recreate an object. Please remember to bring an object and to also bring a ruler for next class. Robotics 9 We started to explore how we use robotics and examined the three laws of robotics as well.

Friday, September 13

Robotics 8C We started to look at the Lego Mindstorm NXT kits today. Think about how you can design something to make it go straight. Use what you know and what is around you, such as the transportation in the City of Calgary, to help you come up with ideas. We will continue building next

Thursday, September 12

Robotics 8B We started to look at programming today. For next class please pick a task for your “Program a Human” assignment. Remember you are to pretend that the human does not know anything so your instructions will need to be detailed. Feel free to sign up for your Scratch account on your own so

Tuesday, September 10

Robotics & Design 8A We started to look at Sketchup today. Remember that this is free software so you can download this at home. Here is the link to the tutorials (http://goo.gl/P9ayhc) Please remember to bring an object and a ruler for next class so that we can begin designing. Start showing the students in

Monday, September 9

Robotics 8 It was great to meet another group of students and I appreciate the enthusiasm that you showed towards your learning. Take a look at Wednesday’s post from last week for links to the programs we talked about. Robotics 9 I appreciate the effort that you put into your structures even though some did