A s the adjuct instructor at the Anaheim School District, my goal was to deliver the "Hour of Code" curriculum to over 200+ middle school students! Our theme for this year's IoT development course was to create a Mars Habitat and landing site with smart city features, sensors, and motors. Our hardware stack included Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and Chromebooks for wireless SSH.
Inspire, Teach, Grow
With the help from our team members, our team was in charge of the Anaheim School District which included Ponderosa, Jefferson, and Stoddard Elementary schools. Our goal was to make sure that the entire 6th - 8th grade class had 10 IoT project produced using the resources provided to non-profit STEM organizations.
“I just wanted my students to feel jazzed about going to coding class and feel a sense of teamwork and comraderie.”
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Ponderosa Elementary Robotics Intro
Our class set course on what type of robot system we wanted to accomplish as a class. We had a chassis team, a software team, a couple students on electronics, and a group working on onboard sensors. By the end of the semester, we had a fully functional robot that that could autonomous navigate its way around the classroom!
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Inspiring Through Example
Robotics, Electronics, and Coding can be difficult subjects to teach! There's got to be a way to make it fun and memorable...
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The Dream Team
Fadi on the left and Sarah on the right. Our team was tasked with bringing the highest quality instruction in IoT development and coding in all of Southern California! Our team was specifically tasked on creating the camera module for our checkin/checkout object detection system.
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Mark Ver. 2.1
Mark 2.1 boasted an 4 ultrasonic sensor system that kept it from bumping into walls. Our software students developed a graphical user interface that could visualize what the robot was sensing on all four sides.