8:00am - 4:00pm Daily

Monday:

• Introductions
• Program overview
• Making Wireless Technology (WT) Relevant
• Define – “What do we teach?”, connection to benchmarks and science literacy
• Electronics basics
• Overview of the ETP curriculum, just one-way of many
• Laptop computer preparations and checkout
• Teaching the Science of WT
  • Oscilloscope set up and use
  • Ohms Law Board, Basic Electronics Course
  • Modulation and Demodulation Board
  • Soldering 101: Homework, solder the 24-hour Clock Kit

Tuesday:

• Teaching the Science of WT
  • 5-Building blocks of WT
  • TV Remote Decoder board and wave propagation
  • DSP Fundamentals
• WT and the vocational education student (Great paying jobs for the non-college bound student, or while they are in college)
• Bringing space into your classroom (Using NOAA satellites in your classroom)
• Satellite operations (times depend on satelite orbits)
• Ham radio operations that support your teaching
  • Making radio contacts (HF/VHF radio station operating)
  • Radio direction finding (Fox Hunting)
  • Using QSLs in your classroom
•  Working with a local ham radio club

Wednesday:

• Introduction to “What is a Microcontroller”
• Getting started; lights on/lights off; digital inputs
• Applications
• Controlling motion
• Measuring rotation
• Digital display
• Frequency and sound

Thursday:

• Robot component setup
• Assemble the robot
• Build the low battery indicator
• Robot navigation
• Navigating by touch
• Navigating with infra-red
• Detecting distance
• Mars exploration activity: putting it all together
• Program critique and good-byes