This Intersession I decided to teach a class on supercomputing. I was able to get some money to buy some components and allow my students to assemble the machine themselves.
They were happy during the hardware phase of the project, but when it came to programming the thing and I started teaching them C, they were less enthusiastic.
For Martin Luther King Day, the girls had a day off school, so we went to the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh. The girls had a lot of fun there. We also checked out SportsWorks, a new part of the science center focused on body and health. My phone died though, so no pictures of the girls on the bungee trampoline or the you-yo, unfortunately. This is in the Science Kitchen. The guy was making caramel apple flambe.
The girls were making a pipe maze for a ball to follow here.
Jessica played air hockey against a robot built by Carnegie Mellon University. She scored on it, but lost 3-1. I played it to a 0-0 tie.
They have a whole room dedicated to model trains. The guy told us there were 250,000 handmade mini-trees in the display, which was designed to model Pittsburgh throughout the four seasons of the year.
They were happy during the hardware phase of the project, but when it came to programming the thing and I started teaching them C, they were less enthusiastic.
For Martin Luther King Day, the girls had a day off school, so we went to the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh. The girls had a lot of fun there. We also checked out SportsWorks, a new part of the science center focused on body and health. My phone died though, so no pictures of the girls on the bungee trampoline or the you-yo, unfortunately. This is in the Science Kitchen. The guy was making caramel apple flambe.
The girls were making a pipe maze for a ball to follow here.
Jessica played air hockey against a robot built by Carnegie Mellon University. She scored on it, but lost 3-1. I played it to a 0-0 tie.
They have a whole room dedicated to model trains. The guy told us there were 250,000 handmade mini-trees in the display, which was designed to model Pittsburgh throughout the four seasons of the year.
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