A-ha Moment with the Kenan Fellowship

This is one of the small station prepared for a semi-automated line almost completed.
This is one of the small station prepared for a semi-automated line almost completed.
Just came in from the outside.  FYI my first selfie.  I guess I will get better.
Just came in from the outside. FYI my first selfie. I guess I will get better.
Bees at BRP
Bees at BRP
Butterfly at BRP.
Butterfly at BRP.

Gosh there have been so many! I have been to several “age talks” relating to the communication with students and younger peers during my career, but I have never been to one that explained to the younger generations how to relate to me. A-ha.  When speaking to Mike, one of the project managers about solar (I won’t go into details.) there was a confirmation and an epiphany. A-ha.  When I started to take apart my project that I am planning for the students and realized the same bosses were being displayed on a car part  that is having an assembly station designed and built, there was an A-ha you should have heard in your location.  While reading the local paper, I discovered I was a science teacher. Wow! Big A-ha!  I am helping to present at a local Kenan Fellows presentation day to new teachers and am facilitating for a presenter that can’t be there. Guess what! We are meeting today and we are doing flipping the classroom! Big A-ha. Connie is a former Kenan and has helped in establishing this opportunity for us newbies.  She has my greatest thanks!  This project is allowing me to connect with another awesome teacher I may not have met otherwise. A-ha.  By the way that goes for over 50 more that I just happened to see this weekend.  I want to also include the Kenan staff  and guests too! Though I will need a week of not actively  preparing for school, I still have a brain that sees a lesson or technique in every corner.  A-ha, this must make me a Kenan Fellow.  I look forward to returning to school with a “perky” attitude, new experiences in my resume and some awesome ideas to share with fellow teachers and most importantly, my students.  By the way, living organisms are some of the most efficient machines that have some of the most effective equipment.  I think I know how to work the bees and butterflies into the technology class. A-Haaaaaaaa!

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