Educator. Engineer. Experimenter.
Volunteered w/ Orlando Math Circle again to bring Math Night to Englewood Elementary. It was refreshing to see so many students and their parents interested in math puzzles and games. I manned a table with some magic square puzzles (similar to the magic triangles I 3D printed for my students). Here is an article and…
As an elementary school STEM teacher it would be a disservice to my students if I didn’t introduce them to 3D printing in this day and age. So our school bought a couple printers this school year and I’ve kept them running almost constantly. It’s been more fun that I imagined it would be. I’m…
My wife found a FREE hutch from a very nice gentleman who was rearranging space in their refurbished furniture shop in the Packing District. The piece was quite old but still solid and had been painted many times over the years. Oddly, it came with a long, heavy piece of marble laid in-between the bottom…
A team of 3 students in our Simulation & Visualization degree here at Full Sail University created a Mech Warrior / MadCat simulation using: Unity3D, VR w/ Oculus Rift, Moog 6DOF motion base, custom CNC routed console, Arduino, LEDs, digital scent technology, etc. I got to check it out the other day during a live demo…
Here are some photos from Otronicon 2017 at the Orlando Science Center. My non-profit, Cacti Council, had a booth as well. We meet with K-12 students, faculty, administrators and clubs, sometimes with university student volunteers, to promote logic, computer science, and programming topics. At Otronicon, we were building simple games with Google IgniteCS Here is…
Cacti Council will be @ OrlandoiX16 October 14th-16th. I will see you there! We will be explaining what we do and how you can help kids learning computer science and programming. Apparently there will be many other Full Sailers attending as well. This list is chock full of graduates and current and former instructors: http://www.orlandoix.com/speakers…
A literal cacti council to celebrate our Cacti Council non-profit, which promotes creative and critical thinking concepts in education, especially computer science and its related disciplines. If you’d like to help out and/or be involved, let us know here.