Piper: Building in the Real World while Creating in the Virtual...
The Madeleine has once again opened the door to another 21st Century Learning Event and the students have been invited to participate as part of the Piper-Beta Team Member, or as an alternate.
Piper is currently in development as the first hacker toolbox that shows how to build electronics by playing Minecraft.
Piper is designed for kids and adults ages 8 and up and will be launching soon on Kickstarter! They with be bring seven prototype kits tomorrow and the students will be working in pairs.
Here's the Schedule of Events for Friday, November 21, 2014
11:00-11:30 The Madeleine Welcomes Piper: Mark Pavlyukovskyy & Associates
Piper Executives, Mr. Willers, Student Hospitality, and available staff
11:35-11:55 Piper Product Introduction and Lunch with Beta Students
above plus PiperBeta students outside near Garden or in ECP
Noon - 12:50 Piper Hands-on with PiperBeta students in Tech Center
12:50-1:00 Event wrap up with PiperBeta students feedback in Tech Center
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A story for everyone to read. The Animal School by George Reavis Once upon a time, the animals decided they must do something heroic to meet the problems of a “new world.” So they organized a school. They adopted an activity curriculum consisting of running, climbing, swimming, and flying. To make it easier to administer the curriculum, all the animals took all the subjects. The duck was excellent in swimming, in fact better than his instructor; but he made only passing grades in flying and was very poor in running, he had to stay after school and also drop swimming in order to practice running. This was kept up until his webfeet were badly worn and he was only average in swimming. But average was acceptable in school, so nobody worried about that except the duck. The rabbit started at the top of the class in running, but had a nervous breakdown because of so much make- up work in swimming. The squirrel was excellent in climbing until he developed frustra...
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