Friday November 30, 2018 - Flex and Maker Friday

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Mechatronics Engineering Plan For Today: Flex Factor Presentation Maker Fridays Clean Up

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Flex Factor Presentation

• Lecture/Presentation - Duration: 15 Min
• Link: Presentation Template  Link
• Instructions & Expectations: This is just a guide for what you should have in your Flex Factor slides.  I'm expecting 3-5 slides on the features and Technology of your product.
• How to Submit Assignment: Go to our Mechatronics Engineering google classroom and check the STREAM for current Entry Ticket Assignments & Questions. - 20 Points

Robot Club and/or Open LAB 

• LAB - Duration: 60 Min
• Link: Robot Club Google Sites
• Instructions & Expectations: Connect with your Robot Club Team.  You will either be working on your Robot Project or an Open Lab Project.  
• You will need to account for your time. You will need to convince me by your form submission that you worked given the time allotted. 
• If  you or your Robot Club Team worked on the Robot Club project, you will make sure your Robot Project Status Google docs are updated.  
• If you worked on an Open Lab Project, you will also need to tell me about what you accomplished and what you are planning next.
• How to Submit Assignment:   Each Student needs to account for your time.  
• Every One Do The Following: Turn in a Google Project/Time Status Form
• If you also worked on your Robot Club Project, also UPDATE your Robot Project Status Google docs.  
• Dig Deeper: Open Lab:
• Robot Club Google Sites
• Guest LED Lesson
• Printers - Work on taking the printers apart
• TinkerCAD
• Udemy - My Courses (specifically the Arduino Workshop and Electronics Engineering Technology class)

Clean Up

• Assignment - Duration: 2-10 Min
• Instructions & Expectations: Desk cleanup, put away all projects, find your assigned job
• How to Submit Assignment: When Complete, check yourself off on Sign Out Sheet - 2 Points

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Thursday November 29, 2018 - LinkedIn Skype call with Kim Burnham

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Entry Ticket - Work on you LinkedIn Profile

• Assignment - Duration: 15 Min
• Link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/
• Instructions & Expectations: Work on your Profile "headline" and "summary", Be ready to talk about it with my Sister Kim
• How to Submit Assignment: I will check your profile over the weekend for a grade, and try to make some comments - 10 Points

Mechatronics Engineering Plan For Today: Entry Ticket - Work on LinkedIn Profile Skype with an Expert Stuff Clean Up

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LinkedIn Profile review - Skype with an Expert

• Lecture/Presentation - Duration: 60 Min
• Link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberlyburnham/
• Instructions & Expectations: Listen and take notes in your Interactive Lab Book. Use notes to update your profile
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Stuff

• LAB - Duration: 15 Min
• Link: Presentation Link
• Instructions & Expectations: List instructions here
• How to Submit Assignment: Do the following
• Dig Deeper: Look here to learn more...

Clean Up

• Assignment - Duration: 2-10 Min
• Instructions & Expectations: Desk cleanup, put away all projects, find your assigned job
• How to Submit Assignment: When Complete, check yourself off on Sign Out Sheet - 2 Points

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Wednesday, November 28, 2018 - LinkedIn

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Entry Ticket - Can You See This Machine Design Site?

• Assignment - Duration: 10 Min
• Link: Dec Machine Design Magazine
• Spend 5 min looking at the magazine, tell me 1 thing you found interesting, maybe that might apply to submarines. 
• Instructions & Expectations: Check out this Machine Design Site.  This is a monthly magazine.  you can sign up to get your own copy here: Register for Machine Design.  Click on the "register" button in the top right of the page.  Use an Email that you will have controller over in 2 years. You should NOT use your @metroed.net or other school email
• How to Submit Assignment: After spending 5 min looking at the magazine, tell me 1 thing you found interesting, maybe that might apply to submarines. Go to our Mechatronics Engineering google classroom and check the STREAM for current Entry Ticket Assignments & Questions- 10 Points

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Mechatronics Engineering Plan For Today: Entry Ticket - Machine Design Signup for LinkedIn LinkedIn Lecture Robot Club / Open Lab Clean Up

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Sign Up For LinkedIn

• Assignment - Duration: 15 Min
• Link: Signing Up to Join LinkedIn
• LinkedIn: How to Sign Up and Create a Profile
• Instructions & Expectations: Sign up for LinkedIn.  Use an Email that you will have controller over in 2 years. You should NOT use your @metroed.net or other school email
• How to Submit Assignment: Go to your LinkedIn account and find Jim Burnham and Kim Burnham and make a connection.  You should also probably connect with some folks in this class. - 10 Points
• Dig Deeper: Look here to learn more...
• Creating an Online Presence on LinkedIn (45 min)
• How to Make a Great LinkedIn Profile - 6 LinkedIn Profile Tips (6 min)
• How To Use LinkedIn For Beginners - 7 LinkedIn Profile Tips 2018 (9 min)

Linked In Lecture (Aspira)

• Lecture/Presentation - Duration: 15 Min
• Link: LinkedIn Profile Checklist (Aspira)
• Instructions & Expectations: Listen and take notes in your Interactive Lab Book. If needed review the posted slide presentation

Robot Club and/or Open LAB 

• LAB - Duration: 60 Min
• Link: Robot Club Google Sites
• Instructions & Expectations: Connect with your Robot Club Team.  You will either be working on your Robot Project or an Open Lab Project.  
• You will need to account for your time. You will need to convince me by your form submission that you worked given the time allotted. 
• If  you or your Robot Club Team worked on the Robot Club project, you will make sure your Robot Project Status Google docs are updated.  
• If you worked on an Open Lab Project, you will also need to tell me about what you accomplished and what you are planning next.
• How to Submit Assignment:   Each Student needs to account for your time.  
• Every One Do The Following: Turn in a Google Project/Time Status Form
• If you also worked on your Robot Club Project, also UPDATE your Robot Project Status Google docs.  
• Dig Deeper: Open Lab:
• Robot Club Google Sites
• Guest LED Lesson
• Printers - Work on taking the printers apart
• TinkerCAD
• Udemy - My Courses (specifically the Arduino Workshop and Electronics Engineering Technology class)

Clean Up

• Assignment - Duration: 2-10 Min
• Instructions & Expectations: Desk cleanup, put away all projects, find your assigned job
• How to Submit Assignment: When Complete, check yourself off on Sign Out Sheet - 2 Points

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Tuesday November 27, 2018 - Best Presentation Ever

Mechatronics Engineering Google Site
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Entry Ticket - Watch This "Bad" Presentation

• Assignment - Duration: 15 Min
• Link: Bad Presentation
• Instructions & Expectations: Watch the "bad Presentation" and list all the "Errors" you see.
• How to Submit Assignment: Go to our Mechatronics Engineering google classroom and check the STREAM for current Entry Ticket Assignments & Questions. - 10 Points
• Dig Deeper: Look here to learn more...
• 6 Presentation Mistakes Every Professional Should Avoid
• 10 things you should never say when making a presentation
• 9 Things You Should Never Do When Giving a Presentation: AMA Research
• 10 Common Presentation Mistakes
• The Do's and Don'ts of Giving a Killer Presentation
• 5 Things You Should Never Do in Your Presentation
• 10 DOS AND DON'TS FOR AN EFFECTIVE PRESENTATION

Mechatronics Engineering Plan For Today: Entry Ticket  Best Presentation Ever Stuff Clean Up

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Best Presentation Ever...

• Lecture/Presentation - Duration: 60 Min
• Link: Best Presentation Ever - Lecture Slides
• Instructions & Expectations: Listen and take notes in your Interactive Lab Book. If needed review the posted slide presentation
• Dig Deeper: How to avoid death By PowerPoint | David JP Phillips | TEDxStockholmSalon

Flex Factor Presentation Template

• Lecture/Presentation - Duration: 15 Min
• Link: Presentation Template  Link
• Instructions & Expectations: This is just a guide for what you should have in your Flex Factor slides.  I'm expecting 3-5 slides on the features and Technology of your product.
• How to Submit Assignment: Go to our Mechatronics Engineering google classroom and check the STREAM for current Entry Ticket Assignments & Questions. - 20 Points

DonorsChoose - Fire Breathing Batteries (for Driving Submarines)

Clean Up

• Assignment - Duration: 2-10 Min
• Instructions & Expectations: Desk cleanup, put away all projects, find your assigned job
• How to Submit Assignment: When Complete, check yourself off on Sign Out Sheet - 2 Points

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Monday November 26, 2018 - FLEX

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Entry Ticket

• Assignment - Duration: 15 Min
• Link: Presentation Links
• NASA Mars lander on course for Monday touchdown
• NASA's InSight Mars Lander Reaches Mars Today! Here's What to Expect
• NASA to attempt difficult Mars landing
• Watch Online - Live
• Instructions & Expectations: Do the following
• How to Submit Assignment: Go to our Mechatronics Engineering google classroom and check the STREAM for current Entry Ticket Assignments & Questions. - 10 Points
• Dig Deeper: Look here to learn more...

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Mechatronics Engineering Plan For Today: Entry Ticket - Mars Landing Flex Factor Template Flex Factor Team Work Clean Up

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Flex Factor Presentation Template

• Lecture/Presentation - Duration: 15 Min
• Link: Presentation Template  Link
• Instructions & Expectations: This is just a guide for what you should have in your Flex Factor slides.  I'm expecting 3-5 slides on the features and Technology of your product.

Flex Factor Workshop Collateral

• LAB - Duration: 15 Min
• Link: Presentation Link from Next Flex TBD
• Instructions & Expectations: Follow the instructions presented
• How to Submit Assignment: Do the following
• Dig Deeper: Look here to learn more...

Clean Up

• Assignment - Duration: 2-10 Min
• Instructions & Expectations: Desk cleanup, put away all projects, find your assigned job
• How to Submit Assignment: When Complete, check yourself off on Sign Out Sheet - 2 Points

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Friday November 16, 2018 - Code, Stuff and Open Lab

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Special Instructions:
if you are going to txt me: no voice) use 1 (408) 785-6649 

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Entry Ticket - Learning to Code

• Assignment - Duration: 15 Min
• How I went from not knowing how to code to shipping 9 projects in 9 months — all before my 15th birthday
• How did it happen that some one from Amazon called?  What event lead to that?
• Who called Samarth from Amazon?
• What did  Samarth do to learn to code?
• Is Ernr a real thing? https://ernr.ml/   Not sure you can actually make money doing this at home... 'cause of PGnE bill...
• Is there a Programming HackClub near you? https://hackclub.com/  
• Is there other ways to find "Coding Clubs"... what about a meetup? Did you find anything?
• How to Submit Assignment: Go to our Mechatronics Engineering google classroom and check the current Assignments & Questions. - 10 Points
• Dig Deeper: Look here to learn more...

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Mechatronics Engineering Plan For Today: Entry Ticket Flex Factor C++ Code Open Lab - Robot Club Clean Up

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Stuff

• Duration: 5 Min
• Field Trip Forms - You Know Who You Are
• Swimming Pool for Underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle (UROV) Submersibles
• new one: Fire Breathing Batteries
• Infinite Campus - https://metropolitanca.infinitecampus.org/campus/metropolitan_edu.jsp?status=login

Flex Factor Shake Down - There Can Only Be One

• LAB - Duration: 40 Min
• Link: workbook template draft
• How to Submit Assignment: Go to our Mechatronics Engineering google classroom and check the current Assignments & Questions. - 30 Points
• Dig Deeper: Look here to learn more...

Time For Some Code

• LAB - C-Lab-1.4.3-Float-Order-Of-Operations
• Duration: 40 Min
• Link: Go to our Mechatronics Engineering google classroom and check the current Assignments & Questions. - 10 Points
• How to Submit Assignment: Follow the instructions in Google Classroom

Robot Club and Open LAB

• LAB - Duration: 60 Min
• Link: Robot Club Google Sites
• Instructions & Expectations: Work on your Robot Club Project.  
• How to Submit Assignment: Your Team will need to submit an update to your Robot Project pages.  Make sure you talk to Mr. Burnham about where to update your Robot Project Status Google docs.  If you don't have a page on the Robot Club Site, then turn in the Google Classroom Robot Club assignment.
• Dig Deeper: Open Lab:
• Robot Club Google Sites
• Guest LED Lesson
• Printers - Work on taking the printers apart
• TinkerCAD
• Udemy - My Courses (specifically the Arduino Workshop and Electronics Engineering Technology class)

Clean Up

• Assignment - Duration: 10 Min
• Instructions & Expectations: Desk cleanup, put away all projects, find your assigned job
• How to Submit Assignment: When Complete, check yourself off on Sign Out Sheet - 2 Points

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Thursday November 15, 2018 - Design Process

Mechatronics Engineering Google Site
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Entry Ticket - Instructable - Mechanical-Arm-Test-Fixture

• Assignment - Duration: 15 Min
• Link: https://www.instructables.com/id/Mechanical-Arm-Test-Fixture/
• Instructions & Expectations: Spend some time looking through this instructable.  Notice how it is more than just a "how to guide"... It is also a "come with me as I build this".  You are getting the experience as they figured things out.  
• Specifically look for cases where they made a design change or decisions to make the design easier or better.
• How to Submit Assignment: Go to our Mechatronics Engineering google classroom and check the current Assignments & Questions. - 10 Points
• Dig Deeper: Look here to learn more...

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Mechatronics Engineering Plan For Today: Entry Ticket Flex Factor C++ Code Robot Club Clean Up

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Stuff

• Duration: 5 Min
• Field Trip Forms - You Know Who You Are
• Swimming Pool for Underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle (UROV) Submersibles
• promo code LIFTOFF at checkout for the next 3 days.

Flex Factor Shake Down - There Can Only Be One

• LAB - Duration: 40 Min
• Link: workbook template draft
• Instructions & Expectations: List instructions here
• How to Submit Assignment: Do the following
• Dig Deeper: Look here to learn more...

Time For Some Code

• LAB - C-Lab-1.4.3-Float-Order-Of-Operations
• Duration: 40 Min
• Link: Go to our Mechatronics Engineering google classroom and check the current Assignments & Questions. - 10 Points
• How to Submit Assignment: Follow the instructions in Google Classroom

Robot Club and Open LAB (after headshots)

• LAB - Duration: 60 Min
• Link: Robot Club Google Sites
• Instructions & Expectations: Work on your Robot Club Project.  
• How to Submit Assignment: Your Team will need to submit an update to your Robot Project pages.  Make sure you talk to Mr. Burnham about where to update your Robot Project Status Google docs.  If you don't have a page on the Robot Club Site, then turn in the Google Classroom Robot Club assignment.
• Dig Deeper: Open Lab:
• Robot Club Google Sites
• Guest LED Lesson
• Printers - Work on taking the printers apart
• TinkerCAD
• Udemy - My Courses (specifically the Arduino Workshop and Electronics Engineering Technology class)

Clean Up

• Assignment - Duration: 10 Min
• Instructions & Expectations: Desk cleanup, put away all projects, find your assigned job
• How to Submit Assignment: When Complete, check yourself off on Sign Out Sheet - 2 Points

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