Week of Sep 16

IED classes this week will continue our research on the history of the development of your chosen product.  Be sure to include details on the specific changes, the reasons for them, why they were made possible, who benefited from the changes, and what problems those changes created.  You may make the presentation in Powerpoint, Prezi, Google Slides, or another presentation software of your choice, and you will load the presentation in to Moodle.  You will present your results on Wednesday. Be sure that both team members have a role in the presentation.

We recently watched the video about the industrial design company, Ideo.  Would you believe that we have a similar company that even has some ties to Ideo just a half of a mile from RRHS?  We are working on a field trip to visit M3 Designs in October. Look for more details to come soon.

STEM-related Clubs
If you are interested in helping us to start an engineering club, come to Mrs. Saksena's room (603) Thursday after school for the kick-off meeting.  Many options are open right now regarding what the club can do and how it operates.

Also, the robotics club is now going in full swing. If you are interested, we will meet in my room (601) Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday after school to plan and begin building our solution to the BEST challenge for this year.  You don't have to attend every meeting.  I planned multiple meetings because many of you have conflicts on one particular day and because we will need the time to complete our build and test before competition day, October 26, which will be held at RRHS!

Cyberpatriots is going to kick off this week in my room (601) on Tuesday.  Cyberpatriots teams compete in a competition in November where you will be given computer image(s) with security holes. Your task will be to find the security risks in the software and resolve them. CP teams learn about many different operating systems (like Windows 8, Ubuntu, and more) and what changes to their settings to make them more secure.

This Week at RRHS
Thursday is another late start.

Grades are due on Monday, and IPRs (Interim Progress Reports) will be distributed to students during 2nd period on Wednesday.

College Visits this week
Monday:       University of Chicago
Tuesday:       Abilene Christian University
                    Johnson & Wales University
Wednesday: California Baptist University
Friday:         Rice University