Week of March 18

Welcome back from Spring Break!  I hope that you had a good one.  It is hard to believe that we only have 11 more weeks of school left.  It will soon be time to start talking about EOC exams.  Remember that we will give the required EOC exam during final exam week for DE, so you will not be able to exempt this spring final.

On Monday, you will finish the Sixty Second Timer project, which you (were supposed to have) started before the break.  This is the last day for it.  If you watched the video for Synchronous counters, you are ahead.  We will start them on Wednesday, and the video is available.  Make sure that you have watched it before class on Wednesday.  I have posted a second video for class on Friday as well, which will introduce one of two MSI synchronous counters with which we will build circuits.

If you are able to help with another demonstration on Saturday (March 23), let me know. I need some students for the RRISD Celebration of Families.  We will present to upper elementary age students and parents regarding the engineering programs that we offer and demonstrate some of the projects that we do in our classes.  Presentations are from 11:00 until 2:00.

This week, we will have WOW on Wednesday and Late Start on Thursday, so the schedules will be different on those days.  If you need a WOW pass to finish the Sixty Second Timer, be sure that you get one from me.  Other than that, this is the last week before progress report grades are due.  Be sure that you are caught up on everything by Friday so that  your grade is a good reflection of your work this six weeks.

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I created an app that will help you monitor updates to the Youtube channel where I post the videos.  It is only for an Android device.  Apple wants me to pay money in order to be able to do the same thing for iPhones, which is why I am not an Apple fan.  They charge you more $$ for things that you can do cheaper (if not free) other places.  Bottom line ... don't look for an iPhone app any time soon.  Click on this link and download the app on your phone.  You can find it in downloads and install from there.  It may require some modification of your security setting in order to complete.  Let me know how it works or doesn't work.