Ascendly has expanded to Massachusetts! We are excited to bring our great classes to students in the Boston metro area. Our first schools are in Belmont and we are eager to expand to other towns. Please contact us if you are interested in bringing Ascendly into your school and let us know if you have …
I think I’ve made the perfect never-fail chocolate chip cookie recipe. This recipe, the culmination of a crazy amount of experimenting, makes about 8 cookies – basically a half batch. I think of this as my engineering experiment in the kitchen. I love chocolate chip cookies, and have made them many times over the year, …
I’ve been researching ways to let Ascendly coaches more easily communicate with parents. Although Ascendly tries to send out email before each lesson to go over the day’s plans, I’d love to make it even easier for coaches and parents to communicate. This page is a list of resources I’ve found and mainly a place …
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So, for the first time, I attempted to introduce Kindergartners to Electrical Engineering (EE). These Kindergartners go to school with my daughter, Maddie, at the excellent Waynewood ES, just south of Washington, DC. Now, to be fair, we just started with the basics, but I had been looking forward to seeing if this age, …
JJ and I were teaching a class last week to K-2 graders on building bridges. While we had showed them some techniques, a lot of the kids, especially the younger ones, had some trouble building the part of the bridge that is suspended in the air. It is not immediately obvious, I admit, to figure …
I’m thrilled to announce my new Engineering and Technology camp in Old Town Alexandria, VA, from 5 – 9 August 2013. Downtown Baptist Church has graciously approached us to work with them at their great facilities in Old Town. The full-day camp (with morning and afternoon half-day options) will provide a combination of Junior Structural …
I’ve been very happy using LEGO bricks for the Jr. Structural Engineering class, but I’m not wedded to LEGO. I just want to the kids to get good at engineering, so I’m more than happy to use whatever they think is awesome, and then adopting the curriculum to make the most of the materials at …
My daughter and I build a LEGO® Friends kit – Olivia’s Workshop. The robot runs away.
I deal with more PTAs and PTOs than most people. Being a pretty hard core software geek, one of things I love is seeing the different ways these groups use technology to make their lives easier – probably with varying degrees of success. All of the software I’ve observed is web based, and seems to …
Just for fun, I took a stop motion video of my summer skyscraper build.
