My natural impulse is to help people so I constantly feel guilty when I hear my classmates struggle with a subject I thrive in and I don't offer to help, but I've never tutored before and don't really know how to do it. I don't know how to transfer my knowledge onto somebody else.
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I finished up teaching 2 week neon and STEM class at Urbanglass on Friday. The high schoolers were from all over NYC with varied backgrounds/ schooling and they all made such fun things!
Along with my two TAs (Caroline and MolMol) we taught them not only how to wire and bend neon tubes, but also how to solder (SMT and through hole) and the very basics on programming captive portal ESP32 chips for blinking neon with phones.
We played games, Including making a 30 foot mega straw for fruit punch, competing with three glass an food coloring "rollercoasters" as well as numerous "drop test" contests to test/ build bend/ weld strength.
Overall they learned about planning, pereeverance and some the hard lessons of loss that glass can teach so well when the thing you make breaks.
One student quoted Don Quixote "Without hardships there can be no Adventure!" - couldn't have said it better myself :)
#neon #teaching#STEM #glass #nyc #electronics #highschool #summer #soldering #diy #education
A table post soldering as students wire and tape their completer circuit board transformer WiFi backpacks to their transformers. Yes, we wired 120 VAC together
A glass roller coaster with bean bags strategically placed over the area of the rollercoaster with a crack in it. The glass tube rollercoaster is On a cart for mobility. Students wait to see if I will notice their cracked roller coaster
A selection of student designs on boards on the wall an off of boards on the table. The room glows a red pink color
A variety of Argon and Argon Mercury student tubes on the black aging table at Urbanglass. Recognizable shapes include and white and blue dog, a blue star and blue plane
I finished up teaching 2 week neon and STEM class at Urbanglass on Friday. The high schoolers were from all over NYC with varied backgrounds/ schooling and they all made such fun things!
Along with my two TAs (Caroline and MolMol) we taught them not only how to wire and bend neon tubes, but also how to solder (SMT and through hole) and the very basics on programming captive portal ESP32 chips for blinking neon with phones.
We played games, Including making a 30 foot mega straw for fruit punch, competing with three glass an food coloring "rollercoasters" as well as numerous "drop test" contests to test/ build bend/ weld strength.
Overall they learned about planning, pereeverance and some the hard lessons of loss that glass can teach so well when the thing you make breaks.
One student quoted Don Quixote "Without hardships there can be no Adventure!" - couldn't have said it better myself :)
#neon #teaching#STEM #glass #nyc #electronics #highschool #summer #soldering #diy #education
A table post soldering as students wire and tape their completer circuit board transformer WiFi backpacks to their transformers. Yes, we wired 120 VAC together
A glass roller coaster with bean bags strategically placed over the area of the rollercoaster with a crack in it. The glass tube rollercoaster is On a cart for mobility. Students wait to see if I will notice their cracked roller coaster
A selection of student designs on boards on the wall an off of boards on the table. The room glows a red pink color
A variety of Argon and Argon Mercury student tubes on the black aging table at Urbanglass. Recognizable shapes include and white and blue dog, a blue star and blue plane