Abstract: As part of the Freshman music and art festival, our team built an interactive sound exhibit. Students designed and creating a variety of sound generating equipment, signal processors, amplifiers, and visualizers that could be … [Read more...]
Working w/ Wood
Abstract: Pitched in January of 2012 as "Working w/ Wood - An Engineer’s Adventure into Whirlygags, Whatchamacallits, and other Mechanical Apparatus", this nine day Intersession course guided students through the process of designing and fabricating … [Read more...]
Up In The Air
Abstract:One of High Tech High's staples is Intersession - a five day immersive experience where students choose a full time outlet for their passions. This year, my groups focus was on building radio controlled aircraft from scratch. With help from … [Read more...]
ElectriCity-States | Planning & Implementation
Conception With the relative success of Apocalypto and Piracy Based Learning, I felt a great deal of pressure to do something big. I also felt myself getting bored with mechanical apparatus and I was starting to develop my personal skills as a … [Read more...]
MAKEshift Poetry
Abstract: The Machine is one of my favorite metaphors for the human element. In some way we are all trapped in our existence and our life is wrapped into the lives of others. In this project, students create a mechanism and then wrote a poem that is … [Read more...]