Class 5: Monday, 9/9/24  Today's Focus:  Rhino Tutorial

• Phones in the caddy -- in the right number slot
• Discuss the marshmallow contest grading and reflections.
• Make sure that you're saving "incremental" saves on your Google Drive.  You will probably have to add the Drive App
• If you have a slow computer, be patient.
• Scan heads

Class 4: Thursday, 9/5/24  Today's Focus:  Wrapping up Marshmallow Towers; Starting Rhino

• Phones in the caddy -- in the right number slot
• Presentation of the donuts
• How many of you plan on taking this class for UVM credit (Dual Enrollment)?
• Take a brief look at the stomp rocket project overview.
• Engineering logs are due tonight, at Midnight -- and on-time submission is 9% of the grade.  Spend some time making sure that you and your teammates have everything you need in order to complete the log and satisfy the grading rubric.
• Start the Rocket Chess Piece tutorial.  I am estimating that this will take two to three classes, unless you work on this at home.
  • We're using technology, so expect some trouble :-)
  • Open Rhino on a classroom laptop. 
  • Try to use the same laptop every time.  Just in case...
  • Maybe label the laptop and mouse that you're using.
• Start scanning heads

Class 3: Tuesday, 9/3/24  Big Idea:  Compete for tallest marshmallow tower

• Phones in the caddy -- in the right number slot
• Approximately 30 minutes of experimentation time.
• Marshmallow Tower Contest (18 minutes)
• Donut preferences?
• Complete your engineering log
• **Everything in your engineering log can be the same as your teammates, except for your final reflection.  This should be your work.
• Clean up.  Put your bin away properly! Mr. Stapleton will check your area ( see "clean-up" in grading rubric)
• Engineering logs are due on Thursday (9/5), at Midnight -- and on-time submission is 9% of the grade.

Class 2: Thursday, 8/29/24 -- Big Idea:  Engineer a taller marshmallow tower

• Phones in the caddy -- I can remind people of your numbers

• Fill out the student information sheet.  If you have already done this in one of my other classes (this year), you can skip it.

• Take a look at the project grading rubric

• (about 60 min) Continue the iterative design process.  Copy and paste to add more iterations as necessary.  For full credit, you must have at least 3 unique iterations (versions of your design or tests of some aspect of your design -- not including the final build on the contest day).  Each iteration should be an experiment that tests an idea that you have about how to achieve your goal.

• (10 min) Documentation Check– go back and make sure that you have filled everything out properly in the spaces above.  If you need any pictures, maybe you can still take them before cleanup.

• Clean up.  Mr. Stapleton will check your area ( I forgot to do this formally last time, but everything looked great! )

• Have a great weekend!  :-)

Designing Solutions (Mr. Stapleton)

Today:

1. Cell phones into the caddy.  Caddy slots are assigned based on alphabetical order.  I'll give you the order.
2. Discuss phones and being on time.
3. Attendance
4. Class goals:
   1. Repeatedly practice and reflect on problem-solving/engineering -- the rationale being that this will improve your skills.
   2. Acquire design and making skills.
   3. Have fun.
5. Briefly go over the plan for the year and course expectations (see Google Classroom).  If you think you might want to try for dual enrollment credit, I can give you more details after this first unit.
6. Get storage bin.  Label it with name and cell phone caddy slot number.
7. Marshmallow challenge work time
   1. Make a copy of the engineering log.
   2. Enter the deadlines in the constraints section.
   3. Join your team (Team List)
   4. Brainstorming
   5. Build Version 1.0 (or whatever you decide to name it) -- don't forget to take a picture
8. Don't forget your phones!