Prospective High School Students, Please fill out the form below to apply for our Spring 2015 lesson series. We look forward to seeing you all this semester! http://goo.gl/forms/FHRSx6kSOv PLEASE REMEMBER, THIS APPLICATION IS DUE AT 11:59 PM ON FEBRUARY 8TH. Best, … Continue readingStudent Application – Due 11:59 PM February 8th
On December 6th, Access Engineering taught a second lesson about the Arduino microcontrollers. Following a short talk about the basics of how servos work, students divided up into small teams to work with Boe-Bots, simple two-servo robots that are easy for students to code and … Continue readingArduino Lab Pt. 2, December 6th, 2014
This week’s lesson featured an electrical engineering lab utilizing Arduino microcontrollers. Thanks to a guest lecture by graduate student and Penn TA Joe Travato, students learned about Ohm’s Law, logic gates and basic C programming. Students learned how to use multimeters to analyze various electronic … Continue readingElectrical Engineering and Arduino Lab, November 22nd, 2014
This week, students continued their work in computer science and performed a chemical engineering lab. During the computer science portion of this week’s section, students learned about arrays and created some basic programs, including code that printed out “Hello World!” onto the computer screen. For … Continue readingComputer Science Lab Pt. 4 and Chemical Engineering Lab, November 8, 2014
Our lesson plan on Saturday, November 1st furthered the students’ coursework in computer science and introduced the students to the basic principles of mobile application development. Students began this week’s session by continuing their work with the Java programming language, building on their work with … Continue readingComputer Science Lab Pt. 3 and Mobile Application Development, November 1, 2014