All posts tagged a-team
Educating the Secretary of Education
Matt Malone, Secretary of Education for the state of Massachusetts, visited Newton North High School on Monday, January 14th. He first met with the school’s administrators and later visited several […]
Engineering Meeting: Antonio Rufo and Marianne Walpert
On January 8th, we had an engineering meeting with Antonio. He helped us work with some small parts, such as speakers, taught us how to code on Arduino, and how […]
Justin’s Visit from Lemelson-MIT
We were fortunate enough to have been visited on January 9th by Justin Lai, the Lemelson-MIT Invention Education Associate. While he was here, we were all busy working on our […]
Engineering Meeting: Kyle Henry and Antonio Rufo
On December 19, we held an engineering meeting with two of our mentors, Kyle Henry and Antonio Rufo. Kyle is an engineer for General Electrics (GE) and a Lemelson-MIT alumni […]
Engineering Meeting: Basic Arduino Coding
One of my favorite parts of this project is the team spirit, the camaraderie between the team members. When we first started this project, many of us did not know […]
Engineering Meeting: Getting Started With Arduino
We held a very successful engineering meeting after school on December 7th, 2012. We started the meeting by compiling a list of questions to ask our Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam Master Mentor, […]
Sketching Phase
After market research and inspirational boards were created, the A-Team started sketching the physical design aspect of the PAS, starting the sketching phase of the invention. The team started by […]
First Engineering Meeting
On November 30th 2012, after receiving the electrical components in the mail, we held our first engineering meeting afterschool. We opened packages of photocells, Radio Frequency (RF) receivers and transmitters, lasers, […]
Inspiration Boards
After market research, we focused on the creation of inspiration boards with the intention of providing visual representation of each student’s interpretation and understand of the project. Each student received […]
Efficient Project Planning with guest Fei Wu from Digital Influence Group
Fei Wu, Senior Producer from Digital Influence Group, met with the Management Team to discuss the importance of efficient project planning and organization. She suggested several helpful programs to manage […]
White House Science Fair
