<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><div>Hello,</div><div><br></div><div>Number 2.</div><div><br></div><div>I did a "Raspberry Pi / Brick Pi Demo" to a High School Level class at Camelot Academy in Durham. My son is in the class, as well as a few of my robotics team members. It my be low level for some on this list, but I'm kinda like you... database / web developer trying to learn more about <meta charset="utf-8"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);display:inline !important;float:none;font-family:verdana;font-size:13.3333330154419px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:auto;text-align:start;text-indent:0;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:auto;word-spacing:0" mce_style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0;background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;display:inline !important;float:none;font-family:verdana;font-size:13.3333330154419px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:auto;text-align:start;text-indent:0;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:auto;word-spacing:0">microcontrollers.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(0, 0, 0);display:inline !important;float:none;font-family:verdana;font-size:13.3333330154419px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:auto;text-align:start;text-indent:0;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:auto;word-spacing:0" mce_style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0;background-color:#ffffff;color:#000000;display:inline !important;float:none;font-family:verdana;font-size:13.3333330154419px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:auto;text-align:start;text-indent:0;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:auto;word-spacing:0"><br></span></div><div>The presentation fell apart a little at the end when I got into the Electronics, but I think they enjoyed it because it was different than web based programming tutorials.</div><div><br></div><div>Public link:</div><div><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1uLKK7gFQ88vkOB5TlpeGeOIjJ4IrmlzRcpLwulPC00w/edit?usp=sharing">https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1uLKK7gFQ88vkOB5TlpeGeOIjJ4IrmlzRcpLwulPC00w/edit?usp=sharing</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Chris Wilkes<br>Robotics Coach</div><div>FLL 10 & 206</div><div>FTC 8569<br>Camelot Academy<br>Durham, NC </div><div> </div><div><a title="http://www.roboknights.net" href="http://www.roboknights.net" target="_blank">http://www.roboknights.net</a></div><div><a href="http://www.roboknights.net/ " target="_blank"></a><a style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;" title="RoboKnights" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/FLL219/" target="_blank"><img style="height: 16px; vertical-align: middle; margin-right: 5px;" src="cid:icon_sm_facebook.gif@782fcf9d49d9137d06f10b8aaf471607" alt=""><span style="text-decoration: underline;">RoboKnights</span></a></div><div> </div><div><br><br></div>
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Subject: [TriEmbed] Middle school presentation<br>
From: jonathan hunsberger <<a href="mailto:1101010@gmail.com">1101010@gmail.com</a>><br>
Date: Sat, January 24, 2015 3:19 pm<br>
To: Triangle Embedded Devices <<a href="mailto:TriEmbed@triembed.org">TriEmbed@triembed.org</a>><br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div>I'm pretty much an embedded n00b, lurking on the list to learn some things (pretty successful in that so far!) I work in IT, doing systems engineering / infrastructure architecture, but when my daughter's Computer Skills (mostly typing, plus a little bit of other stuff, including "hour of code") teacher found out I was a "computer person", she wanted me to come talk to the class about writing code. I am not a software developer, but like most people I do write a lot of scripts, etc. to make my job easier. And at home my latest free time sink has been playing with microcontrollers, etc. So.. I had two ideas:</div><div>1. Talk about ways that some level of coding skills can be useful even when you aren't a software developer for a living. </div><div>2. Talk about how you can use code to do things "in the real world" with all of the easily-accessible microcontrollers that are on the market these days.</div><div><br></div><div>Kind of leaning toward the second one since it seems more like playing than working. For kids who have just come out of "hour of code" and maybe a few hours of codecademy, I was thinking it might be cool just to bring in an Arduino and some common peripherals (sensors, LEDs, etc.) and show how easy it is to quickly get something working using SparkFun/AdaFruit tutorials and running/modifying example sketches that come with the Arduino IDE. Generally show them how accessible it can be and give them the basic info about getting started with it if it is interesting to them.</div><div><br></div><div>Have any of you done anything like that? Does anyone have advice on specific things to demonstrate, ways to organize the presentation, etc.? This would be for middle school students. 6th grade for sure, not sure about 7th and 8th.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div></div> <hr>_______________________________________________<br>
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