A New Chessboard for the Classroom…

Sometimes students will stay in my classroom after school to play chess. Our paper chess board was warped and didn’t lay very flat which was a problem…

I found an old piece of hardboard paneling in the back of my classroom that was about the right size and …

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A Gavel for MUN (Model United Nations)

School’s out but lots of things are going on with my students over the summer… One of the things we are working on with our ShopBot Desktop is fabricating about a dozen award plaques to give to exemplary delegates at Sewanhaka High School’s Model UN Conference next year. We wanted to decorate each plaque with …

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Experiments in 2.5D/3D carving…

Whew! The end of the school year is here and I’m really looking forward to spending time this summer working with my ShopBot Desktop. Most of the projects that my students and I have done this spring have been based on simple 2D profiles and I’m anxious to start carving more sophisticated geometries in different …

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FIRST Robotics Trophy…

I meet the nicest kids as a robotics coach.

My robotics club was recently invited to attend a post-season tournament at the Dalton School in New York City and we wanted to do something special for our hosts; we had already met the students from Dalton Robotics twice this year and were very friendly because …

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