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Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Monday, April 27, 2015
Attention Parents!
Next Thursday, May 7, from 5:30 to 6:30, we will have a Tech Time Family Night!
Your Super Heroes have been hard at work!
Come visit us to see what we've been up to at Tech Time each week. Our theme for the evening is "Super Heroes"! We will have stations for parents to check out several projects we've been working on. And, your kids have the chance to teach YOU how to work on the following:
* Code.org
* Scratch
* Minecraft
* PBS Kids
* Lego Mindstorms
We will have snacks prepared and plenty of Chromebooks for our parents to participate.
Please watch for a flier to come home this week! All Kenwood and IPA Tech Time Families are welcome to come. We hope you can join us!
Next Thursday, May 7, from 5:30 to 6:30, we will have a Tech Time Family Night!
Your Super Heroes have been hard at work!
Come visit us to see what we've been up to at Tech Time each week. Our theme for the evening is "Super Heroes"! We will have stations for parents to check out several projects we've been working on. And, your kids have the chance to teach YOU how to work on the following:
* Code.org
* Scratch
* Minecraft
* PBS Kids
* Lego Mindstorms
We will have snacks prepared and plenty of Chromebooks for our parents to participate.
Please watch for a flier to come home this week! All Kenwood and IPA Tech Time Families are welcome to come. We hope you can join us!
Friday, April 24, 2015
Hardware Friday
Technology comes in all shapes, sizes and forms. Today, we had a visit from Miss Tammy from Collision Car Care Center. She was here to teach us about how to check the oil, transmission fluid, antifreeze and wiper fluid in a car. The kids took turns checking the gauges while Miss Tammy talked to us about the different jobs they do. As with any piece of equipment, all parts have to be maintained to ensure it works well. These kiddos may ask you if they can change your oil on your car today.
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| Michael and his mom, Miss Tammy, just explained what to look for to make sure you have enough oil in your car. |
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| Michael is showing the boys where the oil dipstick is located. |
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| Ted just got done checking the oil level. |
On Thursday, at Girls Lead, we decided to go to school.
The girls have been discussing different things they'd like to learn about and offered up many ideas for topics they could teach. Once they decided on the topics, they led a discussion on what is involved in teaching! Questions came up, such as:
"What materials would we need to teach this?"
"What audience will I be teaching?"
"Do people want to learn about this?"
"How long will this lesson take? Five minutes? Fifteen minutes?"
They determined we would need two sessions for our school. Here are the topics they chose:
1. How to make paper snowflakes,
2. How to make "Goo",
3, How to create an "Animal Jam" account,
4. How to apply makeup.
We are looking forward to see our girls in action as they take us all to school!
The girls have been discussing different things they'd like to learn about and offered up many ideas for topics they could teach. Once they decided on the topics, they led a discussion on what is involved in teaching! Questions came up, such as:
"What materials would we need to teach this?"
"What audience will I be teaching?"
"Do people want to learn about this?"
"How long will this lesson take? Five minutes? Fifteen minutes?"
They determined we would need two sessions for our school. Here are the topics they chose:
1. How to make paper snowflakes,
2. How to make "Goo",
3, How to create an "Animal Jam" account,
4. How to apply makeup.
We are looking forward to see our girls in action as they take us all to school!
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| The girls are exploring Animal Jam |
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| Chloe and Charlotte are preparing to make their snowflakes. |
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| Here, they are showing eachother how to make their account and what they can do on the site. |
Friday, February 27, 2015
Hardware Friday: LEGO Robotics
Today, we used our LEGO robots from previous workshops and experimented with the different sensors in the kits. One student shot a whole bunch of video which we need to edit before posting, but I still got a couple of good stills I can share today. Special thanks once again to MechSE for loaning us the LEGO kits!
This robot is equipped with a microphone for sound detection (on its left side), a
laser for ground detection (at front center), and an ultrasonic sensor for sonar vision.
Some of the students started a "Battle Bots" club and outfitted
their robots with various weapon and armor attachments.
Thursday, February 26, 2015
Girls Lead Thursday: Fixing a Flat
Today, Liz, Jake, and Dan from The Bike Project of Urbana-Champaign brought a bunch of bikes and gear so that we could all learn how to repair flat bicycle tires. We had a great turnout and many requests for a repeat, so stay tuned in the fourth quarter when the weather gets nicer! I got a bunch of great photos and some really good video while Ms. Larson ran the show and some new volunteers helped out. The video needs some editing, but the photos are ready to go. Plenty more below the cut. Many thanks once again to James and The Bike Project for all their support!
Students broke into groups to repair flat tires.
A couple students brought in their own
bikes. These sisters work on one of them.
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Scratch Tuesday: Passion Projects
Today, we began working on our projects for April's Family Night. There's only a week and a half in March before intersession, then we're back and it's April. My, how the time flies!
One student actually finished working on a project he had been polishing for some time. Take a look:
One student actually finished working on a project he had been polishing for some time. Take a look:
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