Please make sure that you are checking your progress through Home Logic as there are a number of you that are missing assignments or have received a grade of insufficient on some of your assignments. Robotics 8A You will have a single period on Thursday to finish building, programming, and testing your robot before we
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April 30, May 1, & 2
Robotica 8A You only have two classes left to finish your robots before we have our competition because after that we will be switching to the last module. Robotics 8B We began working on the final project today. This is due on Friday, May 9. Robotics 8C Most students started on their final project. This is
April 25, 28, & 29
Robotics 8A Awesome job today working on the checklist as most of you have now made it on to the planning / design stage for the advanced project. Please try and finish your plan / design for next class so that I can go over it with you. Robotics 8B Today was the last class
April 22, 23, & 24
Robotics 8A Most of you have finished, or are close to finishing stage two of the skills checklist. I encouraged all of you to pick up one of the design/planning sheets so you can do this at home and come to class prepared on Friday. Robotics 8B We discussed some ways to approach your work
April 14, 15, & 16
Robotics 8A We continued working on the NXT checklist. Many of you are getting closer to completing it and moving on to the advanced stage. Robotics 8B Your first project, accessory or duplicate, is due Thursday, April 17. For those of you that are done you can go on to the next project which is
April 9, 10, & 11
Robotics 8A We starting working on the NXT Checklist after building a quick test robot. Robotics 8B We continued working on our personal accessories or replications of the items that we brought in. Next class you will be given your next assignment as some of you are finished or close to it. When handing in
April 4, 7, & 8
Robotics 8A Some impressive robots today in the competition. I was impressed by the work that all of you did especially those of you that had never used the Mindstorm kits before. For next class please make sure to complete your reflection / appraisal. Here are the questions I had on the board today: Think about
April 1, 2, & 3
Robotics 8A Today we began the Robotics module by trying to design the fastest robot possible. We will continue this next class and then finish it by racing what we have designed. Robotics 8B Today we began looking at 3D using the program Sketchup. You can download it here for free on both the Mac
March 19, 20, & 31
Naming Files: When you hand in files please make sure that the name of the file corresponds to the assignment so that I know what I should be looking at (Prototype.skp, All About Me.sb2, Fastest Robot Appraisal, etc) LifeSkills 9-21 Please finish your Human Sexuality STI presentation for Wednesday, April 16. You will not have
March 14, 17, & 18
Please make sure that you are checking your assessments on HomeLogic to ensure that you know exactly how you are doing and what you have or have not handed in. Robotics 8A We continued working on our Scratch assignments. Reminder that they are due by the end of Thursday, March 20. Choice 1 (Part A)–