By Jeanne Taylor, April 17th, 2017 The tastiness of making mistakes.
In the 52 years that the New York State Technology and Engineering Educators Association (NYSTEEA) has been meeting, there have been a lot of changes in the design software and equipment available to teachers and students. Schools have been adding digital fabrication equipment, including CNC, into …
Continue reading >>> NYSTEEA and Chocolate Mold-Making for STEAM
By Sallye Coyle, November 7th, 2016 ATEA Region 5 meets in North Platte, Nebraska
North Platte, NE often serves as a stopping place on the transit between the East and the West Coasts of America. The Original Transcontinental Airways that carried mail between Washington D.C., New York & San Francisco made a stopover at the North Platte Landing Field, which was the …
Continue reading >>> Recognizing the Community in Colleges in Heartland America
By Sallye Coyle, February 25th, 2015
Dassault Systèmes SOLIDWORKS Corp. offers complete 3D computer-aided design (CAD) software that engineers, designers and other technology professionals use to create, simulate, publish, and manage their data. The FabLabs are an international community of over 300 fabrication laboratories, complete with an array of digital fabrication equipment, electronics components and molding equipment so that the community …
Continue reading >>> SolidWorks, FabLabs and ShopBot
By Sallye Coyle, November 10th, 2014
Whether it is woodworking or robotics, one of the challenges of teaching in a public high school is that the bell rings for the next class just as the students/teachers have really settled into their projects. So it was a privilege to have 3 students from Kelvin Hasch’s woodworking program at Greely High School …
Continue reading >>> A Day Without “Bells”
By Sallye Coyle, August 10th, 2014 In TJ’s training at ShopBot this past week, of the 10 entities represented, 6 were involved in education in some form or another. Another 3 were “life long learners” with the idea of using their new ShopBots in a career change because they had been laid off from their old job, or were creating a …
Continue reading >>> ShopBot Training, Aug 2014: Life Long Learning
By Sallye Coyle, July 31st, 2014 Paris’s first Maker Faire took place in late June at the Centquatre Center.
ShopBot had a presence there, thanks to Sallye from ShopBot putting a Handibot in a suitcase and flying it over for the event and leFabShop from San Malo bringing their Desktop. LeFabShop has a variety of digital fab tools and classes …
Continue reading >>> Digital Fab at the Maker Faire, Paris
By Michael Berliner, May 26th, 2014 The roar of robots racing, kids shouting and general mayhem filled the air as the FIRST Robotics 2014 Virginia Regional Competition got underway in April. FIRST Robotics’ mission is “to inspire young people to be science and technology leaders, by engaging them in exciting mentor-based programs that build science, engineering and technology skills, that inspire …
Continue reading >>> TEC Hub’s Handibot goes to work in FIRST Robotics pit crew
My name is Lexus Pickett, and I’m Weston Mohawk, and we are with the Renaissance Academy Woodworkers. We are both juniors in high school that are interested in computer aided manufacturing.
We have now started a new project, learning how to use pocketing and profiling. As a class we have begun a project using a …
Continue reading >>> Adventures Of A High School CAM Class: Episode 3
By Michael Berliner, April 28th, 2014 ShopBot Tools has announced the launch of ShopBot Certification training. The program is being rolled out in Texas: career and technical education professionals can receive Level I Teacher Certification during the TIVA Conference in Austin, July 13th – 18th. TIVA is the state’s professional organization supporting career and technical educators.
Conference and course registration information …
Continue reading >>> ShopBot Launches Certification Classes for Teachers
By Sallye Coyle, March 3rd, 2014 Bill Young brought in this sign, made from acrylic that has been V-Carved, plywood that has been pocketed and cut out, and a peg that was 3D printed. At the bottom of the sign is a strip of LEDs, their changing colors programmed with an Arduino. While it is a simple enough project, it contains …
Continue reading >>> What can you teach from making a sign?
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