Monthly Archives: July 2015

ASSIST Research Symposium at NC State University

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Well, it is hard to believe but our time at the ASSIST Center has concluded. We wrapped up our summer internship by sharing our experiences and project posters at a Research Symposium at NC State University. Guests included students, researchers, other Kenan Fellows and staff, teachers, administrators, family, and friends – including a couple of the canine variety. Each presenter… Read more »

NC State Electrical & Computer Engineering and EPA Human Studies Tours

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I have been playing video games for as long as I can remember. Thus, I was very excited when I learned we were visiting an engineering department at NC State that applied the same 3-D technology used to make such video game characters as football and baseball players to real world nanotechnology problem solving. Topics included on our demonstration tour… Read more »

NASA to Visit Panther Creek High School in Cary, NC

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Yes, that is correct. NASA is coming to Panther Creek High School this fall – and their first stop will not be a science classroom. Instead, they will be going to straight to my CTE business and marketing classroom. Why is that you ask? How? One of my main goals of participating in the Kenan Fellows Program has been to… Read more »

Soldering, Circuits, & Coding

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We finished up last week solidifying our ideas for team lesson plans before taking a break to celebrate the 4th of July Holiday. We were fortunate to learn from Dr. Ben Calhoun at the ASSIST Center’s University of Virginia location virtually via video conference regarding sensor nodes. Then we were able to get hands on in ASSIST’s soldering lab by… Read more »