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Building and Sustaining a PLTW Program and Promoting the Program to the Community

on Monday, 16 November 2015. PLTW NYS PRESENTATION Download the Presentation! Preview the Presentation! On November 18th, in Binghamton NY, PLTW NY will be holding it’s annual conference, and I have been asked to woerk with a few others to do a presentation on how to sustain...

2015-16 PDP #4: CIM Lessons 2.1, 2.2, and an Intro to 2.3

Written by Chris&Jim CIM.

on Wednesday, 04 November 2015. ONGOING SERIES ON HIGHLIGHTS OF THE PLTW CIM CURRICULUM The fourth PDP session for the 2015-16 school year was held last night. In this one, Jim takes us through lessons 2.1, 2.2, and gives an intro to 2.3 in the PLTW CIM curriculum. this includes a research project,...

2015-16 PDP #3 Transfer System & Mass Property Analysis

Written by Chris&Jim CIM.

on Wednesday, 21 October 2015. CIM LESSONS 1.3, 2.1 & 2.2 The third PDP session for the 2015-16 school year was held last night, and many topics were covered from lessons 1.3, 2.1 & 2.2. This includes more about the transfer system project in 1.3, and Mass Property Analysis in Inventor...

How do I make Inventor default to 3 decimal places?

Written by Chris&Jim CIM.

Question: How do I make Inventor default to 3 decimal places instead of two? Answer: Well, you just need to change the default dimension style. It’s a setting buried in the menu’s that is best explained in the image below. Just follow the steps and change it to the default that you want! ...

2015-16 PDP #2: Intro to VEX and RobotC

Written by Chris&Jim CIM.

on Tuesday, 06 October 2015. CIM LESSONS 1.1 & 1.2 The second PDP session for the 2015-16 school year was held last night, and many topics were covered from lessons 1.2 & 1.3. This includes a short intro to VEX and RobotC and an overview of the Transfer System Project. [youtube_sc...

PLATFORM TYPE: ERRORS WHEN COMPILING?

Written by Chris&Jim CIM.

Question: Why won’t my RobotC program compile today without errors, but it did yesterday? Solution: Probably because you forgot to change your Platform Type Settings. This happens in my lab when a student uses a different computer. Just make sure platform type is set to VEX 2.0 Cortex, and...

2015-2016 CIM PDP Starts with Introduction

Written by Chris&Jim CIM.

on Wednesday, 23 September 2015. MEETING SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED The first PDP session for the 2015-16 school year was held last night, and many topics were covered, from “what software do you need?” to “what hardware do you have?”. Meeting notes are available in an announcement...

Cazenovia PLTW Student Designs Product for International Robot Company

Written by Chris Hurd.

on Tuesday, 28 July 2015. BRADY FLANNERY PARTNERS WITH ROBOTSHOP Brady Flannery, a student in Cazenovia High School’s PLTW program recently came up with an idea to make a project in his CIM class easier. His teacher, Chris Hurd thought it was a good idea, and asked him to pursue it to use...

Machining a Logo on a Container

Written by Chris Hurd.

MAKING IT REAL AT CIM CTI UK Teachers at CIM CTI @ UK have designed containers in CAD, brought them into CAM software, simulated them on a computer, then manufactured them on a CNC Milling machine.

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