While I fully expected my time at the ASSIST Center as part of my Kenan Fellowship to be challenging, I was not fully ready for what I experienced! This week’s post will discuss some of the challenges I faced along the way as well as the success I ultimately encountered during my time at North Carolina State University. Perhaps the biggest challenge… Read more »
This week’s prompt asks the Kenan Fellows how we see our internship benefiting our mentor’s organization. And, because I need to do a lot of work on this exact topic prior to next Friday’s poster session, I have to say this week’s post will be considerably shorter than past posts. As a member of Team Nano, I feel it is pretty… Read more »
After having a great time while attending the Kenan professional advancement workshop at NCCAT last week, I was ready to return to my internship at the ASSIST Center and find out more of what is expected of us as well as learn more about sensor devices. And, although it was a short week due to the holiday weekend, what a… Read more »
In applying to become a Kenan Fellow, I had a number of goals in mind. First, I have now worked as a teacher for 12 years, with a number of years of experience outside of education prior to that. While I love what I do, there is something about seeing what goes on outside of education where employers/employees use many of the skills… Read more »
What a great start to my Kenan experience! I am enjoying taking in all the information our group is receiving from Jess Jur and his fellow staff members at NC State’s Assist center as well as interacting and sharing with the other educators who are involved in the wearable devices group! I have already learned a lot about sensor devices, gotten… Read more »
Well, yesterday we were introduced to a couple of new sensing devices: the Texas Instruments (TI) CC2650 Sensor Pad and the Arduino Lilypad. I already have some great ideas on how to use the TI sensor in my classroom, though it will take a little more exploring to make it work. The Arduino, on the other hand, was more problematic…. Read more »
This morning, I woke early, like I normally do on a workday. But, today is not the typical workday for me. For today, I was driving from Durham into Raleigh to start the internship portion of the Kenan Fellowship Program! What could I expect? What should I expect? This was a new thing for me and I had no real… Read more »
Last night I had the opportunity to meet the other members of the nanotechnology team and learn more about the program we will be taking part in this summer. After hearing a little more about the program and gaining knowledge of the team, I am even more excited about taking part in the program. I am looking forward to this summer… Read more »
