Senior Service

For my senior service ill be working with pre schoolers at the Richard J. Murphy school within the Leahy Holloran Community Center. 40 Hours of community service need to be completed and from now on, on Wednesdays I will be spending my time with the little kids.

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2014 Sochi Olympics

It is the first Olympics in Russia since the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991. The Soviet Union was the host nation for the 1980 Summer Olympic in Moscow. A total of 98 events in 15 winter sport disciplines were held during the Games. A number of new competitions—a total of 12 accounting for gender—were held during the Games, including biathlon mixed relay, women's ski jumping, mixed-team figure skating, mixed-team luge, half-pipe skiing, ski and snowboard slopestyle, and snowboard parallel slalom. The events were held around to clusters of new venues: an Olympic Park constructed in Sochi's Imeretinsky Valley on the coast of the Black Sea, with Fisht Olympic Stadium, and the Games' indoor venues located within walking distance, and snow events in the resort settlement of Krasnaya Polyana.

Flapp Bird

The game is simple, infuriatingly difficult, and apparently, rather addictive. The user must guide a bird through sets of green pipes by tapping the screen, earning one point for each set of pipes cleared. the app has been downloaded 50 million times and makes the owner 50,000 per day. Flappy Bird’s Vietnamese creator, Dong Nguyen, announced Saturday on Twitter that he’d be taking the game—currently the most popular for both Android and Apple—down for good: Dong didn’t add much further explanation, but he did clarify that the decision is not related to legal issues. “I just cannot keep it anymore,” he said.

Google Sketchup

SketchUp, marketed officially as Trimble SketchUp, is a 3D modeling program for applications such as architectural, interior design, civil and mechanical engineering film, and video game design. The program claims to be easy to use. There is an online repository of free-of-charge model assemblies (e.g., windows, doors, automobiles, etc.), 3D Warehouse, to which users may contribute models. The program includes drawing layout functionality, allows surface rendering in variable "styles", supports third-party "plug-in" programs hosted on a site called Extension Warehouse to provide other capabilities (e.g., near photo-realistic rendering), and enables placement of its models within Google Earth
      



Makerbot Replicator Printer

MakerBot Industries is a Brooklyn, New York-based company founded in January 2009 by Bre Pettis, Adam Mayer and Zach "Hoeken" Smith producing 3D printers. MakerBot Industries' products are designed to be built by anyone with basic technical skills and are described as about as complicated as assembling IKEA furniture.^[8] The printers are sold as do it yourself kits, requiring only minor soldering. Alongside the Replicator 2, in September 2012 MakerBot also released the Replicator 2X. The 2X model was intended as an experimental version of the 2 that includes a completely enclosed build area, dual-extruder support, the ability to print with ABS plastic with a heated aluminum build platform, a redesigned extruder that improves reliability, and software support for these features.  

Military ROTC Programs

it is a college class like any other only its worth just 2 credits
you go one day a week for class and one day a week for lab
also you have a field training exercise (FTX) once a semester and it last the weekend and it is mandatory. Depending on the program and college, PT(physical training) may be mandatory. At UF we PT 3 times a week and it is mandatory. Benefits are that your tuition, books and housing is paid for, and you also get a monthly stipend. You also get health insurance, but all the benefits are only after you "contract." The contract is pretty straight forward. The army/air force/navy will pay for school, housing , and give you a stipend if you promise to serve either 2 to 4 years active duty, or 6 years reserves/ national guard once you commission as an officer.It's really easy to get into, it's like any other class. You just have to register for it. Your first 2 years you can come and go without any obligation, but to continue with rotc after the second year you have to contract. The contract is really easy to get and maintain. A 2.5 GPA is all you need, and at my school they hand out contracts like candy. The programs vary from school to school though but the scholarship contracts are all the same. PT is tough and there is a PT test which you have to pass to contract and stay contracted. It isn't imposiible though. As long as you go out and pt with your company on the designated days you should be fine to take the PT test. Also you do not have to go to basic, thats for enlisted men. You will have to go to LDAC (leadership development and assessment course) your junior summer, which last 31 days.



Digital Game Based Learning

Mark Prensky was the one who invented this and wrote the book. It was the first comprehensive look at using digital games for learning ,now finally a hot topic in education. Still valid, useful, and an excellent introduction to the subject of learning games, Marc’s book describes both the theory and the practice of Digital Games-Based learning, in education, training and the military. Digital games are now being used to teach babies the alphabet, to help kids monitor their diabetes and overcome ADD, to teach both practical and tactical skills to the military, to teach financial derivatives to auditors and to teach CAD software to engineers, among many other things. And this is just the beginning anything can be taught more effectively through Digital Game-Based Learning.