Notes from 10/25/2012 TEEAM meeting

Technology and Engineering Educator's Association of Maine

Notes on the October 25, 2012 Fall Kick Off Meeting

Gray-New Gloucester High School, Gray, Maine

Andy Davidson, TEEAM president, called the meeting to order at 5:20.

Dave Kramlich, Technology and Engineering teacher at Gray-New Gloucester High School, gave an overview of the program. Courses include Intro to Technology, Digital Photography, and Pre-Engineering.

Meeting participants had been asked to bring something from their programs to share. The following is a listing of the projects and ideas that were contributed:

John Kraljic, Falmouth High School – The Tug of War Challenge will be held on March 29th and is funded by a grant from the Perloff Foundation. This June, Falmouth graduates will be able to get a STEM endorsement on their diploma.

Andy Davidson, Scarborough Middle School – Andy's students work collaboratively to design a puzzle using Google SketchUp. Each student creates one piece of the puzzle which will result in a 3” cube that students fabricate from wood.

Tim Taylor, Scarborough Middle School – Tim has made various shapes from wood which students measure then draw and dimension using Google SketchUp. 

Dave Southard, York Middle School – Dave relates the grading for a project to the systems model. Students complete a graphic organizer by explaining and categorizing the work they did developing a project as input, process, and output on a systems model diagram.

Sam Blunda, Saco Middle School – Sam's 8th graders build a house using Google SketchUp, then build a physical model from cardboard using a printout of the top view of the SketchUp model as a guide.

Sunny Stutzman, Yarmouth High School – Sonny's students design Tiny Houses that are 8 ½' x 20' x 11 ½' using Google SketchUp. They build paper models of the houses, make adjustments to their designs, indicate the materials that will be used to construct the houses, then pitch their ideas to people interested in Tiny Houses.

Jim Rowe, Auburn Middle School – Jim's students design boat hulls and create them from foam. They race the boats in a tank equipped with motion sensors. 

Mary Ann Hamel, Gray-New Gloucester Middle School – 7th grade Tech Ed students at Gray-New Gloucester Middle School make casein glue from milk as a hands-on Biotechnology activity. They use the glue to make a simple popsicle stick truss, then test the truss for strength.

John Kraljic recommends the NASA online classes. He is completing one on Project Based Learning and Assessment.

The TEEAM conference will be held on March 29th at USM

The meeting was adjourned and was followed by a tour of the lab at Gray-New Gloucester High School

Notes submitted by Mary Ann Hamel, TEEAM secretary