by Brian | Sep 30, 2016 | AUV's, Change, Coding, Drones, Messy Learning, STEM, Student Access, Teacher Access, Technology
My last 5 or 6 posts have focused on the Nevada STEM Underwater and Aerial Vehicle Computer Science Institute (NSUAVCSI) grant I wrote and am now facilitating. 18 middle and high school teachers started out learning a bit of computer programming, then the ethics,...
by Brian | Sep 18, 2016 | AUV's, Change, Drones, Education, Field Trips, Inclusion, Messy Learning, STEM, Student Access, Teacher Access, Technology
Day four of building our OpenROV underwater robots was very eventful. The original thinking was that it would take 4 full days of our 5 scheduled classes to finish building our robots, and not until the 5th day would we be able to try them out. However the teams of 2...
by Brian | Sep 12, 2016 | AUV's, Change, Drones, Education, Messy Learning, Project Based, STEM, Student Access, Teacher Access, Technology
One of the resources we shared with teachers in the Nevada STEM Underwater and Aerial Vehicle Computer Science Institute this past weekend was this video explaining how OpenROV got its start by David Lang. It’s a “TED Talk-like” video produced by...
by Brian | Sep 11, 2016 | AUV's, Change, Coding, Drones, Education, Messy Learning, Project Based, STEM, Student Access, Teacher Access, Technology
The Nevada STEM Underwater and Aerial Vehicle Computer Science Institute (NSUAVCSI) was designed to provide professional development for 6th through 12th grade teachers in not only computer programming, aerial vehicles and underwater robots, but to more importantly...
by Brian | Sep 4, 2016 | AUV's, Change, Coding, Drones, Education, Messy Learning, STEM, Student Access, Teacher Access, Technology
I recently blogged about our current course for teachers on computer programming and aerial and underwater vehicles (drones). The underwater vehicle section starts this week. In the meantime, Kirk Ellern at AboveNV, who taught the bulk of the aerial vehicle part of...
by Brian | Aug 30, 2016 | AUV's, Change, Coding, Drones, Education, Messy Learning, STEM, Student Access, Teacher Access, Technology
It’s been almost 2 months since I shared about how this class is going. We got started later than planned because we couldn’t get drones delivered fast enough. So far the 18 teachers have had 2 days of computer programming training with the ncLab online...
