Monthly Archives: April 2015

New Article in The Physics Teacher, New Software, New Curriculum, New Summer Workshop, and More!

Much has happened in the two years since I last posted to this blog.

  • After input from users, the software to run the robots was re-written and updated with new features.
  • The Science House at North Carolina State sponsored a summer workshop through their summer modeling institute program.  It was attended by almost a dozen experience North Carolina modeling teachers, who went through every activity alternating in student and teacher modes modeling workshop fashion and gave it a thorough critique.  Every single activity was revised based on their input, new exercises were added and the sequence was altered to be more effective.
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