Robotics Comic strip by Team Turtle!

Here is a comic that the team did for part of their research project:

Yay team(s)!

What an incredible weekend. Both of False Bay School's robotics teams did an amazing job at the Vancouver Island Regional Qualifier. Way to GO!!

Team Turtle was one of two teams invited by Starfish Medical to visit their facilities in Victoria!

The Humans Are Dead - Full version

Convocation success!!

Friday's convocation (a.k.a. Silly Hat convention) went smoooooth and well. Thanks to my awesome, geeky family for all the love and support! I'm so glad you all survived the very long, and quite boring ceremony, so that we could all thoroughly enjoy the celebration afterwards!!!

First Lego League Teams on Lasqueti

Due to mind boggling demand, we now have 2, yes 2! robotics teams on Lasqueti!!

With 19 students participating in the robotics club this year, we've added a new team: Team Turtle, to the club.

Wish us luck!!

Clapping Music

Here are some cool videos:

Tree of Life

One of the students in the class I'm TA-ing posted this link. Very cool!!

More info can be found at the parent site here.

And it all starts again...

Master's Thesis defended and done! Yay!

Which sets me up to begin my PhD, of course. This fall I begin an interdisciplinary program in Computer Science and Psychology. Specifically I'm interested in human problem solving. I'm looking forward to fun new opportunities!

Progress

Soon, I will be done my master's thesis (fingers crossed) and can proceed with real life!!

Google XPrize Lego Mindstorms contest!!

OOOOH! This looks super cool. Can't wait to tell the kids at False Bay!!

http://www.moonbots.org/

UVic Engineering paper mentions False Robotics!!

Check it out here:

http://www.uvic.ca/shared/shared_engineering/docs/EngineeRingSpring_2010_Final.pdf

Woo Hoo!!!

SIGCSE Poster presentation

So today I presented my poster at SIGCSE in Milwaukee, WI: An Interdisciplinary Guide to K-8 Computer Science Education. It was a huge success!! Yay!

Off the radar

So I have seemingly been slack in posting to this blog. True enough.

But that is one of the negative side-effects of living on a little remote island. Broken inverter = no power = no internet = unhappy student...

But now I'm on the road on my world tour, and am back in touch with "reality".

False Robotics Update

We finally got our medals for participating in the BC Regional Championships! The kids were stoked!