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My ________________ doesn't work. How do I get PLTW Tech Support?
Question: My ________________ doesn’t work. How do I get PLTW Tech Support? or What’s in the Purchase Manual? or How do I get….. Answer: PLTW now has what is called the Solution Center, and it can be found here: https://www.pltw.org/get-involved/register-pltw/program-support. There are many questions you can get answers to here including Hardware & Software issues, […]
Robocell Tutorials
on Tuesday, 17 March 2015. START WITH THE BASICS, THEN GET MORE ADVANCED! Robocell is a very powerful robotic simulation program that allows you to teach and learn how to program robotic arms without all the costly hardware! Students really enjoy it, and think of it as a video game. Students build a 3d Cell, […]
2015-16 PDP #5: The CAD/CAM Process
on Wednesday, 18 November 2015. THE 5TH INSTALLMENT OF AN ONGOING SERIES ON HIGHLIGHTS OF THE PLTW CIM CURICULUM The fifth PDP session for the 2015-16 school year was held last night. In this one, Chris talks about the CAD/CAM Process. No matter what you use for CAD software, or CAM software the process is the […]
2016 PLTW Engineering Teacher of the Year Chris Hurd
[widgetkit id=1700] Original article in PLTW’s website can be found here. Chris Hurd, PLTW Engineering Master Teacher at Cazenovia High School in Cazenovia, New York, received the 2016 PLTW Engineering Teacher of the Year award at PLTW Summit 2016. Hurd has been teaching PLTW Engineering since 1999 and has credits in Introduction to Engineering Design […]
2016 Lynxmotion VEX Handshaking in CIM Class
This year’s CIM class is doing amazingly well with handshaking and is well on their way to being successful making work cells, and possibly even a factory. [widgetkit id=1497] 1,137 total views
PDP #10: PLTW Software & Lynxmotion Robots Intro
on Tuesday, 12 April 2016. Posted in Chris’ Blog ALMOST FORGOT THE SOFTWARE! Oops! Almost forgot to talk about the software! Thanks for the reminder Jim. In this hour long video (with very poor sound quality) We discuss PLTW software, how to download it, how to install it and a guide to where to get […]
PDP #9 Introduction to Robocell
JUST THE BASICS… The ninth PDP session for the 2015-16 school year was held last night. In this one,Jim discusses the basics of Robocell, including cell set up, teaching and recording points, writing the program, and simulating it. Tentative Meeting Schedule 1,137 total views
PDP #8 CNC Tooling & The Container Project
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2015-16 PDP #7: Designing the Container
WHAT ARE THE DESIGN PARAMETERS FOR THIS PROJECT? The seventh PDP session for the 2015-16 school year was held last night. In this one, Jim and I discuss the design parameters for the cnc container project in the PLTW CIM currriculum lesson 2.3. In this video we discuss swapping lessons 2 & 3 around in the […]
Chris & Jim CIM
Welcome to www.chrisandjimcim.com. Our mission is to make Computer Integrated Manufacturing more exciting and easier for students and educators alike. As you utilize the resources here, you will see how Science, Technology, Engineering & Math can be brought to life for your students, and possibly spark the interests of the next generation of manufacturers and makers...
CHRIS HURD
Caz HS Tech Labs
31 Emory Ave
JIM HANSON
Walker Career Center
9651 East 21st Street
