Saturday, April 5, 2014

University of Minnesota TC Robot Course Projects ME2011

  1. University of Minnesota TC Robot Course Projects ME2011

  2. ME2011 Robot:Car Parking in Garage (UMN) 2013 Minnesota [Gooder]

    University of Minnesota: Mechanical Engineering Robot Show 2013. This is a robot consisting of a Rear-Wheel drive car, garage, ...
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    ME 2011 Robot University of Minnesota

    My entry for the ME 2011 Robot Show. Whiteboard erasing robot.
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    Brent Wassell - U of MN ME 2011 Complete Robot (Version 2)

    This is my Robot for the ME 2011 class at the University of Minnesota. If anyone is interested in the coding I used or how it works, ...
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    Brent Wassell - U of MN ME 2011 Complete Robot

    This is my Robot for the ME 2011 class at the University of Minnesota. If anyone is interested in the coding I used or how it works, ...
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    UMN ME2011 Robot 2012 Kathryn Krieger

    This is my project for ME 2011 at the University of Minnesota. Spared Change is a robot that sorts silver American change.
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    UMN ME2011 ROBOT 2012 - TAYLOR LUND - PING PONG PLINKO

    This is my robot for the University of Minnesota ME 2011 course. To begin, an invisible IR switch is hit. Next, "He's a Pirate" song ...
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    ME 2011 Robot "The Piano Player"

    I had to build a robot for my intro to mechanical engineering class at the University ofMinnesota. Here's what I came up with!
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    ME 2011 Robot - Bubbles - Formaneck

    My robot project for ME 2011 at the U of Minnesota.
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    ME 2011 ROBOT Tom Peterson

    This was my robot for the University of Minnesota course ME 2011.
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    ME 2011 Kevin Roof

    Robot for the class ME 2011 at the University of Minnesota. The robot has an IR sensor that detects whether or not the golf ball is ...
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    UMN ME2011 Robot 2013 Suta

    Robot project for ME2011 at the University of Minnesota. Third button is supposed to be 7 Nation Army.
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    Arnold Palmer Maker - UMN ME2011 Robot 2013 - Ackerman

    Sophomore at the University of Minnesota. Created this robot for my intro to mechanical engineering class.
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    ME2011 Juggling Robot

    This is a final project for my ME 2011 class at the University of Minnesota.
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    "Lazy Sunday Morning" UMN ME2011 Robot 2011 Jacob Elmer

    Video of my robot I made for Intro to Mechanical Engineering at the University ofMinnesota. The robot makes a bowl of cereal.
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    ME 2011 Robot

    This is a robot I made for ME 2011 at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. It sorts marble and ball bearings with a magnet.
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    Apple Peeler/Slicer, UMN ME2011 Robot 2011 Ben Anderson

    Apple Peeler and Slicer Robot, Built for the University of Minnesota's ME2011 Robot Show.
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    UMN ME2011 Robot 2011 Bungum RoboChop

    This is my ME2011 robot project at the University of Minnesota. It is called the RoboChop.
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    UMN ME2011 Robot 2011 -- Hui

    Light-Seeking robot for ME 2011 at the University of Minnesota, by Jefferson Hui.
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    UMN ME2011 Robot, Fall 2011, VanHavermaet

    This is the robot I built for ME 2011 at the University of Minnesota. It's an automated Cheese Grater which will either run for a ...
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Friday, April 4, 2014

UK Wants To Peg GCSE Grade To Chinese Math Test Results

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Friday, March 21, 2014

Kindergarten Nightmare of Computerized Testing in Seattle

Kindergarten Nightmare of Computerized Testing in Seattle

This is not some sick future-in-hell novel, this is real life. The WASL abused 4th graders. This is .... kindergarten.

Giving kindergarteners computerized tests that pc-trained grown ups would need training for is child abuse on several levels. 8+4??? Drag the 1 and then the 2 into the answer box?? Kindergarten is to learn how to go to school, not start taking the SAT to get sorted for Harvard for pete's sake. The Asians don't even do this to our kids (yet...)
http://seattleducation2010.wordpress.com/2014/03/20/a-kindergartners-nightmare/
A Kindergartner's Nightmare
Is this education? Is this what we want for our children and grandchildren? Teachers have called the testing regime child abuse and here you get to read about it firsthand. A teacher's recount of t...
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Monday, March 17, 2014

Will Asians Kill Race Preferences in California?

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http://dailycaller.com/2014/03/15/will-asians-kill-race-preferences-in-california/

Overlooked: ‘Coalition of the Ascendant’ Goes to War–With Itself; If you’re looking for moments when tectonic issue shifts seem to become visible–like the moment when Dems realized they had to give up on gun control, or the (coming) moment when there are enough charter school parents to defeat teachers’ unions–here’s one:  the moment when California Democrats abandon a push to reinstate race preferences because of constituent-driven opposition from Asian Americans in their own ranks. …
Background: California passed Ward Connerly’s Prop. 209 in 1996, which banned race preferences in admission at public colleges like the University of California.  This latest push is an attempt by the state’s Democrats to advance a constitutional amendment that would undo this aspect of 209. …
Meanwhile, the state’s Asians, who have done fine in the admissions game without preferences, now constitute about 11 percent of the electorate–bigger than the state’s black vote, though still smaller than the Latino share  (which was 22% in the 2012 exit poll). Asian communities seem to worry, not without reason, that preference-aided admissions for blacks and Latinos will mean fewer slots for Asians. …


Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/03/15/will-asians-kill-race-preferences-in-california/#ixzz2wDyUSr00
Larger Meanings:  1) California is now more-or-less a one-party state, run by Democrats. If Dems can’t pass an affirmative action bill even when they are in full control, what does that say about the future of affirmative action? … 2) One-party government seems to sometimes make local Democrats more responsible. If there were a powerful Republican faction to be beaten, state legislators might choose to promote affirmative action if only to paint the GOPs as bigots. That is no longer necessary in California. ….
The Forward Lean:  Even though the  San Jose Mercury News says the initiative is on “life support,” I suspect the Dems will eventually patch up their differences and get an anti-209 amendment on the ballot. Too embarrassing for the party ideologists otherwise. But the cracks are now out in the open.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/03/15/will-asians-kill-race-preferences-in-california/#ixzz2wDyMZwIL
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Thursday, March 13, 2014

England Imports Chinese Math Teachers To Boost Grades

England Imports Chinese Math Teachers To Boost Grades
From "Charlotte Iserbyt" Subject: What would C.S. Lewis say?

If my head shakes much more, it will fall off my body.
    1. GlobalPost - 23 hours ago
      England, the home of some of the world's elite schools and universities, is calling in maths teachers from China to help boost standards after ...

    More news for http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/140312/england-brings-chinese-teachers-boost-maths-grades

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Wednesday, March 5, 2014

SAT to drop writing essay requirement and return to top score of 1600


 College Board, the nonprofit organization that owns the SAT, late last year appointed a new president, David Coleman, who was a co-writer of the Common Core State Standards
The new exam will be available on paper and computer,

scoring will revert to the old 1600 scale, with a top score of 800 on math and what will now be called “Evidence-Based Reading and Writing.” The optional essay will have a separate score.
revamped less than a decade ago when a written essay was added

  Last year, for the first time, it lost its designation as the most popular college admissions exam to the ACT, by a margin of a few thousand students.

 Common Core Alignment?

    1. Indiana Public Media ‎- by Elle Moxley ‎- 18 hours ago
      High school students will take a very different college entrance examin two years when the company that administers the SAT rolls out a new ...

    2. The changes coming to the exam are extensive: The SAT’s rarefied vocabulary words will be replaced by words that are common in college courses, such as “empirical” and “synthesis.” The math questions, now scattered widely across many topics, will focus more narrowly on linear equations, functions and proportional thinking. The use of a calculator will no longer be allowed on some of the math sections. The new exam will be available on paper and computer, and the scoring will revert to the old 1600 scale, with a top score of 800 on math and what will now be called “Evidence-Based Reading and Writing.” The optional essay will have a separate score.
      Once the pre-eminent college admissions exam, the SAT has recently lost ground to the ACT, which is based more directly on high school curriculums and is now taken by a slightly higher number of students.
      The new SAT, to be introduced in the spring of 2016, will not quell all criticism of the standardized-test juggernaut. Critics have long pointed out — and [College Board President David] Coleman admits — that high school grades are a better predictor of college success than standardized test scores. A growing number of colleges have in recent years gone “test optional,” allowing students to forgo the tests and submit their grades, transcripts and perhaps a graded paper.
      Both the SAT and the ACT are being retooled to align with the nationally-crafted Common Core expectations...
      Representatives from both companies, however, have reassured Indiana lawmakers who want to leave the Common Core that the tests will remain relevant to Hoosier students.
    1. New York Times ‎- 7 hours ago
      David Coleman, president of the College Board, has used his position to overhaul the SAT and have it better reflect what students should be ...
    But “when is there a situation in either college or life when you’re asked to write on demand about something you’ve never once thought about?” he asked. “I’ve never gotten an email from a boss saying: ‘Is failure necessary for success? Get back to me in 25 minutes?’ But that’s what the SAT does.” Perelman said that tutors commonly taught their students to create and memorize an all-purpose essay that contained the necessary elements for a top score — “a personal anecdote, a few historical references; Florence Nightingale seems a strangely popular reference.” When test day comes, they regurgitate what they’ve committed to memory, slightly reshaping depending on the question asked. But no one is actually learning anything about writing.

    2. Politico‎ - 19 hours ago
    3. Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)‎ - 9 hours ago

    More news for sat test "common core"



  2. SAT exam to be redesigned - Washington Post

    www.washingtonpost.com/.../sat-exam-to-be-redesi...‎

    The Washington Post
    Feb 26, 2013 - The famed SAT college admissions exam will undergo a thorough ... In its current form, the SAT is aligned to the Common Core as well as or  ...

Free test prep from Khan Academy
PCWorld ‎- 1 hour ago
The Khan Academy will offer SAT test prep materials for free, the online learning platform said Wednesday, through a partnership with the .


    1. Fox News ‎- 2 hours ago
      The SAT college entrance exam is undergoing sweeping revisions.Changes in the annual test that millions of students take will also do away ...

  2. College Board unveils new SAT, with major overhaul for writing exam

    www.insidehighered.com/.../college-board-unveils-new...‎

    Inside Higher Ed
    3 hours ago - The College Board today announced major changes to the SAT, including a substantial revision to the writing test that was added in 2005 in the  ...

  3. New SAT: The essay portion is to become optional - Yahoo News

    news.yahoo.com/sat-essay-portion-become-optional-19154...‎

    Yahoo! News
    2 hours ago - Changes in the annual test that millions of students take will also do away with some vocabulary words such as "prevaricator" and "sagacious"  ...

  4. SAT to drop essay requirement and return to top score of 1600 in ...

    www.washingtonpost.com/.../sat...test/.../2aa9eee4-a...‎

    The Washington Post
    51 mins ago - The SAT college admission test will no longer require a timed essay, will... admission test, which is poised to undergo some major changes.
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