UCSD COSMOS: Music and Technology 2016Overview:
The UCSD COSMOS Summer Program gives high school students an opportunity to live on campus, attend lectures, and learn from UCSD professors. Students in the Music and Technology cluster have passion for both of those fields. They spent one month learning from and working with a UCSD professor in the Music and Technology program. Students worked in teams to apply their learning by creating a project. My role as a Teacher Fellow was to help teams develop an indea for a project and execute their designs. Team projects included a 3D-printed light keytar, a device that plays music at a tempo proportionate to the user's heartrate, and a robot that follows sound. Visit the COSMOS: Music and Technology 2016 Project Page to learn more. |
STEAM Maker Fest 2015Overview:
Students participated in the 2015 STEAM Maker Fest Robotics Challenge. The challenge was to build a line-following robot using photocells, motors, and other Arduino components. The robot had to follow a curved dark path, and earned points for progressing through the track. To prepare for this event, students attended robotics workshops in partnership with Robolink and the STEAM Maker Workshop and learned to build and program with Arduino. Along with participating in the challenge, students gave tutorials to visitors on how to build simple circuits with breadboards and Arduinos. |
San Diego Maker Faire 2015Overview:
Students participated in the 2015 San Diego Maker Faire by running the Learn to Solder Station both days of the event. Students taught hundreds of visitors how to create their own LED Robot by soldering pins, LEDs, and a battery pack to a robot base. Students prepared for this event by attending a soldering workshop at the Fab Lab. |
San Diego Botball Competition 2015Overview:
Students competed in the 2015 Greater San Diego Botball Robotics Competition. Students were tasked with the challenge of building and programming two robots that would score points on a game board. Students built the robots from components provided by Botball including metal parts, KIPR Links, and an iRobot base. View the student-produced video of our experience. |