oreign language, on top of the other minimum six computer languages we learn too.
2) ICS students must purchase expensive computers and expensive textbooks.
3) ICS students aren't done with education after graduating. We enter a field that never stops changing. There is no real ability to chart the course ahead since we will all need to keep learning and adapting to new technology. …
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This month's speaker is Justin Brown, CTE (Career and Technical Education) Coordinator and Robotics Director at Kealakehe High School. He will discuss the "Design Thinking" model, which is a human-centered process for designing anything from high-tech gadgets to government forms developed by the Stanford University Institute of Design. Design Thinking embraces the users of the product from the initial problem statement through prototyping and testing. It can be used in education or business; Justin will describe how he has been using it with KHS's robotics team, and how it could be applied to your product designs. Professors from the Stanford D.School have partnered with Hawaii Island to expand Design Thinking in Hawaii and plan to come to Hawaii Island to give workshops to robotics students, STEM educators/professionals and a limited number of the general public during the next year. This talk serves as an introduction to those who might be interested in learning more.
Agenda: 5:30-6:00 p.m. Networking 6:00-6:30 p.m. Presentation and Q&A 6:30 p.m. -7:30 p.m. or until pau - More Networking…
try to use tools like... Clojure or Scala or any of the many interesting languages being developed on it, I find myself swamped in a see and meaningless information, and a ton of learning materials for people who know Java which I don't. One could probably argue that it would be best if I just learned Java, but there are so many other more interesting languages to learn :)
Factor is an interesting stack based language (like forth with some extra bits attached). Mostly I wrote some factor when reading through Thinking Forth. If you haven't ever written in a stack based language it's probably worth your time as much like the APL lineage they're pretty weird and a bit of a mind bender to get your head around.
As for the topic at hand, amazingly enough there have been some articles that popped up on HN and Reddit this weekend that started to offer some insight.
http://planet.plt-scheme.org/
was easy enough to find and the documentation for using it
http://docs.plt-scheme.org/reference/require.html#%28form._%28%28lib._scheme/base..ss%29._require%29%29
and then a cookbook
http://schemecookbook.org/…
mely 300 level courses. This in turn causes a very topsy turvy progression for most students where they take classes which they don't even have the prerequisites for. The core requirement was implemented to remedy this, but I, as well as others here, have already been through most of the curriculum.
2) Very few classes in the program satisfy FOCUS requirements. Perhaps this is just due to the nature of the field of study, as most of it is in practice and implementation. Classes like 314 are very appreciated and I would like to have more classes that allow us to write academic journals and essays in our field of study.
3) Being in this major is getting increasingly stressful to a point of being almost unnecessarily so. With the implementation of new core requirements and the "B or higher" requirement for such classes being in consideration, things are looking dim for most of the new ICS students. Granted, this (314) is the last core class that I must take, but I would be lying if I said that these classes are easy, in fact they are far from it. The possible "No Repeat" rule in conjunction with all of this makes ICS possibly the most high risk STEM major offered at UHM. And that's a scary thing for both new and current students. Simply getting a B- in 311, in my opinion the most difficult class in the curriculum, will weed out a lot of students, if they weren't already scared away from the harsh requirements. I believe that these requirements are more detrimental to the student. …
ants. The Unconferenz is attendee driven and really what you make it. Feel free to join the conversation and suggest session topics here.
Format: Open Grid, participant driven, Ignite STEM session, Internet+Tech, 50 minute sessions
Rules: No talking heads, we want participation, sharing and interaction. Project discussions are encouraged especially if it is the creator, designer or principal innovator.
Objectives for the Unconferenz:
Be a catalyst
Create an environment for sharing
Provide support for people and innovation.
Networking
Start a movement
Session Ideas: Topics for the Unconferenz are participant driven. You can make a suggestion for sessions or vote for the ones already posted. Let your voice be heard!
Schedule:
Please arrive early. We only have 45 min to complete registration and session sign up.
8:00am - 8:45am Registration and session sign up
9:00am - 9:50am Session 1
10:00am - 10:50am Session 2
11:00am - 11:50am Session 3
12:00 noon - 1:00pm Lunch
1:15pm - 2:05pm Session 4
2:15pm - 3:05pm Session 5
3:15pm - 4:15pm Ignite STEM
We are also part of CodeAcross2014, a series of events taking place in cities around the world. The goal of CodeAcross is to activate the Code for America network and inspire residents everywhere to get actively involved in their community.
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Engineering Design, 3D Modeling, 3D CAD, 3D Printing, Manufacturing Prototyping
Phone: +1 (808) 722-8667
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Added by Daniel Leuck at 6:36pm on September 17, 2009
3D Innovations, LLC
Engineering Design, 3D Modeling, 3D CAD, 3D Printing,
Manufacturing Prototyping
Phone: +1 (808) 722-8667
Email: collin.kobayashi@3d-innovations.com
Manoa Innovation Center | 2800 W
Added by Daniel Leuck at 11:47am on March 29, 2009
hose of us on the team with jvm experience. It's working out great.
Anders Conbere said:My problems with Clojure stem only from the environment in which it runs. Somehow in my career I've managed to completely avoid the whole Java/JVM mess and I've taken that for granted. Now whenever I try to use tools like... Clojure or Scala or any of the many interesting languages being developed on it, I find myself swamped in a see and meaningless information, and a ton of learning materials for people who know Java which I don't. One could probably argue that it would be best if I just learned Java, but there are so many other more interesting languages to learn :)
Factor is an interesting stack based language (like forth with some extra bits attached). Mostly I wrote some factor when reading through Thinking Forth. If you haven't ever written in a stack based language it's probably worth your time as much like the APL lineage they're pretty weird and a bit of a mind bender to get your head around.
As for the topic at hand, amazingly enough there have been some articles that popped up on HN and Reddit this weekend that started to offer some insight.
http://planet.plt-scheme.org/
was easy enough to find and the documentation for using it
http://docs.plt-scheme.org/reference/require.html#%28form._%28%28li...
and then a cookbook
http://schemecookbook.org/
…
of the people on our committee also came prepared to talk about education. It took some effort to keep on point with the discussion of developing junior developers into senior developers, retaining senior developers and attracting senior developers.
Our poorly performing K-12 public schools cause problems for two reasons. The first, as Linda points out, is that most Hawaii public high school students graduate with no STEM skills (or interest, which could be the subject of another lengthy discussion.) The second is that its nearly impossible to recruit developers from the mainland who have kids unless they are independently wealthy. If they have young children they are looking at $20K X child count by the time they are in high school, and employers can't afford to pay $60K more for a developer with three kids in private school.
Linda Rawson: Last but not least was the man who said they had 400 students with declared majors in Computer Science. He said they only graduated 40 people. FORTY. That is not very many graduates.
That was Professor Philip Johnson. That number is bad, but not quite as bad as it sounds. Most of those students change majors but still graduate. Its very common for students to declare an ICS major because they want to develop games. Most change their mind once they realize C++ is hard :-) I don't know how UH's 10% ICS retention compares to other schools but I remember USC's computer science programming also having many people transfer to other majors after the first year. Philip is self deprecating but he is actually an excellent educator. He is one of the islands of excellence at UH of which I spoke. I've found that the community colleges also have many islands of excellence. I've been consistently impressed by a number of educators at UH Mānoa, UH Hilo and KCC.…