Monthly Archives: March 2021

Pioneer Valley Regional School Innovation Center Update

Posted on March 15, 2021 by JohnHeffernan

The Innovation Center goals are:  Teach Middle School computer science and high school engineering design More generally, teach innovation, the application of math, science, the engineering design process, and presentation and documentation skills  Our focus is on hands-on, creative doing … Continue reading →

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

Posted on March 7, 2021 by JohnHeffernan

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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