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3D Printed Custom LEGO Parts

High school students are making robotic fish feeders that help fish owners when they go away for the weekend or for vacation.  This is a Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) project that we use in the Teaching … Continue reading

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Tips for Making Concurrent Teaching More Face to Face

With many schools moving from hybrid or remote to in-class learning, I wanted to discuss ways to restore more of a face to face feel to classrooms.  In Massachusetts, families still have the option of staying remote and about 10% … Continue reading

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How I Used COVID Itself to Motivate My Tech Students and Why They Liked It

The Challenge I was faced, at the start of the year, with creating curriculum for a new middle school Computer Science courses centered on Computer Science Discoveries (CSD) from http://code.org/.  I also had to create new robotics engineering projects for high … Continue reading

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Middle and High School Students Enjoy Challenging and Relevant COVID Tech Projects

Middle and high school students at the Pioneer Valley Regional School  recently completed COVID related Computer Science (CS) and engineering projects.  I was faced, at the start of the year, with creating curriculum for a new middle school Computer Science courses … Continue reading

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Pioneer computer science students design apps that could combat pandemic aspects

https://www.recorder.com/Pioneer-computer-science-students-design-apps-that-could-combat-real-world-pandemic-aspects-37000584 By ZACK DeLUCA Staff WriterPublished: 10/29/2020 4:43:18 PM NORTHFIELD — Students in Pioneer Valley Regional School’s computer science program have spent the last two months developing apps that could be applied to real-world aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Innovation … Continue reading

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How To Setup Sharing for Interactive Google Documents

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Tab Sharing With Google Meet – Options and WHAT AM I SHOWING STUDENTS???

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Baseball Coaching – the RAPA Method – Repetitions, Accountability, Proofing, Attitude

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CS Blob Movie

Second movie on a series of 4 made by first grader CS using FlipBoom

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CS Ball Movie

This is the third movie in a series of movies made by first grader CS.

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