Passive Heat Design – Revisited
One of the really cool hands-on projects that allows students to explore, test their design skills, and challenge their understanding of materials science is a solar hotbox project. I have blogged on these before,...
Science & Technology Outreach Blog
High School Engineering
One of my fun outreach programs is an engineering club at a local high school, Sheldon. We have built robots, rockets, and radios. Now students are building remote control airplanes. These are relatively cheap...
Bio-engineering and Prosthetic Design
In conjunction with the Bio-engineering club out of Mike Hahn’s group in Human Physiology, The DeArmond MakerSpace helped with the creation of a prosthesis for a local young man. The mid-arm section was...
Three Billion Birds – It’s a Big Number
Three billion birds – It’s a big number A recent report published in the journal Science indicates that there are 3 billion less birds flying around North America today than there were in...
Arduino Environmental Sensor Systems
In partnership with the University of Oregon STEMCORE program and the Oregon Science Teachers Association, the Price Science Commons hosted a workshop on building environmental sensors. I led the session with the help...
Gaming for Conservation
MIT’s App Inventor is an amazing tool for education. We are exploring its use in our Visual Communication and Technology class that I am teaching with an independent study student. One of the basic...
The UO Media Center for Science & Technology
The University of Oregon has a new center in the School of Journalism and Communication. It’s called the Media Center for Science and Technology. The goal of the center is to train journalists, communicators,...
Planting Trees with Eugene Parks, AmeriCorps, Friends of Trees and UO Holden Leadership
Active Learning is the best way to learn. In January, on Martin Luther King Day, a large contingent of Eugene, Oregon community members, including students from the University of Oregon, got the chance to...
Communicating in the Classroom – Lightboards / Learning Glass
Being able to interact with or connect to your audience while you write is likely a winning way to keep your audience focused on your content. One way to do this is to...
Making Gliders- A Continuation
Back on June 10th, 2019 I created a post on making gliders with a piece of paper, 3 Post-It notes, a few pennies, a shish kabob skewer and some 3D printed or laser...