Month: August 2023

8-31-23

Delivery robots on the ground:
Oregon State robot food delivery
Nuro Delivery bots even have an airbag!
Uber Eats delivery robots in LA
robot rolls through crime scene
delivery robot vs train

today’s agenda:

  1. Binary review and handout
  2. Scratch programming – create your first program: About Me
  3. And…there is Fresh Khan Academy due next Tuesday at the end of class.

8-29 & 8-30-23

Robotaxi’s can now operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in SF – what do you think?

Reporter takes a ride in an SF robotaxi – malfunction included!

Map of self driving car crashes in SF

today:
first half of class – getting setup in MIT’s Scratch programming environment
–please go to the Scratch home page (scratch.mit.edu)
>if you have an existing Scratch account, please feel free to keep using it OR
>create a new account
3. Follow this link to tell me what your Scratch username is.
4. let’s review the features in Scratch

second half of class – complete today’s assigned work in Khan Academy – let’s talk about binary before you get started.

Period 3 – click here
Period 4 – click here
Period 5 – click here
Period 6 – click here

8-28-23

Hope you had a good weekend.

Wing expands it’s drone delivery service in Dallas, TX

Coming up this week:
1. Thursday, 8-31-23 is Back to School Night.
2. Friday is a minimum day.

today:
1. Let’s review the Tech Scavenger Hunt.
2. Khan Academy – grading, assignments. Your first assignment is setup and waiting on Khan Academy. Follow the links below to setup your Khan Academy account. Then begin your work.

Assignments for 3rd and 5th are due at end of class on Tuesday.

Assignments for 4th and 6th are due at end of class on Wednesday.

Period 3 – click here
Period 4 – click here
Period 5 – click here
Period 6 – click here