Welcome to November and the last week for this six weeks. That's right. The 2nd six weeks ends this Friday, November 8. Be sure that all work is caught up this week, so that grades will be accurate.
This week in DE
We are in the midst of the first unit on AOI logic. Last week, we learned the relationship between logic expressions and truth tables, which are simply two different means of expressing a logic relationship. The next step this week will be to build a logic circuit from the expression. The ultimate goal of most of our learning in DE is to be able to design a circuit. After designing the circuit, the final step would be to build that circuit on the breadboards.
There are 2 videos available for the lessons this week. Be sure that you watch the video for logic analysis before the first class of the week and then the one for logic implementation (that would be creating the circuits on a breadboard) for the second class this week.
We will also begin creating a circuit for the Majority Vote project, where we are given the description of a circuit to be designed and have to come up with the truth table and unsimplified logic expression to create. Later on, we will learn to simplify logic expressions via two different means, and that will wrap up the introduction to AOI.
If you are attending the Texas State Ingram School of Engineering visit this Friday, you MUST turn in the permission forms for both the Skillpoint Alliance and RRISD waiver to me on Monday or Tuesday at the latest. You must also have your teachers sign off that you are passing all classes and acknowledge that you know that you are responsible for work that might be missed. If you are planning to ride the bus to the Future A&M Engineers (FAME) on November 16-17, get a permission form from me this week to have signed and returned.
This Week at RRHS
As noted above, this is the last week for the second six weeks of the year. Be sure that you are staying on top of grades and have everything completed and turned in by this Friday. If you are submitting an assignment that has already been graded, please point that out to me so that I know to check your journal specifically for those items.
College Visits This Week
Monday - University of Texas at San Antonio
Thursday - University of North Texas
I have this information on my Scholar$hips tab, but the Milwaukee School of Engineering is the Wisconsin hub for Project Lead the Way. They offer $3000 per year for 4 years to students who complete PLTW courses in high school to enroll in engineering at MSOE. I have a poster in the room that you can consult for more information or check out the link provided here. This is a good time to encourage you to check out that Scholar$hip tab as well as the one for Internships and summer work opportunities. I update that as I get information from colleges and potential employers looking for STEM students in their junior or senior years in high school.
