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This is the wiki-homepage of the Olin college OLPC university chapter.
This is the wiki-homepage of the Olin College OLPC university chapter. [[User:Mchua/Braindumps/Wiki song|Please edit!]]


== Office Hours ==
== Welcome!==
The Olin College OLPC chapter is a student-run volunteer organization that works with Sugar Labs and OLPC. Our group is a mixed group of software and hardware engineer students, as well as people interested in curriculum design and technology-driven education. Our goals include learning and participating in a philanthropic cause as well as developing and exercising engineering and education skills
Weekly office hours are held at 1CC on Friday and Sunday afternoons. Use this space to update and organize transportation, as well as giving [[user:SJ|SJ]] a heads-up on how many people to expect.


Our current (what exactly is our hierarchy? elsa fill me in here) [[User:Yifiy|yifiy]] 03:48, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
''' Suspended until after winter break '''


=== 4:30-6:30 pm, Friday ===
== Meetings ==
We have weekly meetings on Friday 3-5pm (Friday Service Time).
* ''drivers' names here (please include how many seats you have)''
** ''passengers get listed under driver''
** ''even if there are no drivers yet''


[[/archives | Meeting notes]]
=== 2:00-5:00pm, Sunday ===
* ''drivers''
** ''passengers


== Projects ==
== Upcoming events ==
* Friday Oct. 2 - Meeting with CFS and Mission Hill teachers for activity bundle (include link to appropriate page here)
Please post proposed projects here, so that we can apply for [[Developers program]] support (like XOs to use).


== Current big projects ==
<table border='1'>
=== TurtleArt After School Program ===
We're developing a curriculum to teach various math and engineering concepts using Turtle Art. The program will run spring 2010 with 10 3rd-5th graders from the Needham area
Click here to visit the main [[Olin university chapter/Projects/Curriculum|Turtle Art After School Program]] page


=== XOBot ===
<tr>
A robot that can be controlled directly from Turtle Art.
<th>Project Name</th>
Click here to visit the main [[Olin university chapter/Projects/XOBot|XOBot]] page
<th>Project Description</th>
<th>Professor</th>
<th>Contact</th>
<th>Materials needed</th>
<th>Additional Information</th>
</tr>
<!-- you can copy this template, and put it below -->
<tr>
<td>the title/name of your project</td>
<td>a basic description of your project</td>
<td>which Olin prof is supervising your project? (required)</td>
<td>your name here (link to user page, if you have a wiki account)</td>
<td>what do you need to do it?</td>
<td>anything else you want to say</td>
</tr>


=== Repair Center ===
<!-- add new entries here -->
Click here to visit the main [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Olin_repair_center Olin Repair Center] page


=== Cambridge Friends School/Mission Hill Deployment ===
<tr>
Click here to visit the main [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Cambridge_Friends_School CFS deployment] page
<td>[[Yalp]]</td>
<td>Audio sampling toy</td>
<td>n/a</td>
<td>Ben Fisher</td>
<td>nothing - done</td>
<td></td>
</tr>


=== Support Gang participation ===
<tr>
<td>[[Distributed mesh weather sensors]] (as an educational and research tool)</td>
<td>Create a USB weather data collection unit that can be inexpensively produced and provided to (students / schools).</td>
<td>Software Design / POE</td>
<td>[[User:GregMarra|Greg]]</td>
<td>Some money for prototyping, some people who like electronics, some people who want to develop the backend, some people who want to develop the XO mesh logging software.</td>
<td>Just an idea Andy Barry, myself, and Evan Morikawa came up with.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>"Lights" game for OLPCs</td>
<td>Implement the "lights" game for the OLPC. [[http://www.whitman.edu/mathematics/lights_out/ Online version of game]].</td>
<td>Software Design</td>
<td>[[User:GregMarra|Greg]]</td>
<td>An OLPC and someone who knows a bit about PyGame type stuff.</td>
<td>It's a super fun addictive game.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>[[Unicoder character pad|"Unicoder" Character Pad]]</td>
<td>Simple text editor for quickly entering non-ascii characters.</td>
<td>Unknown</td>
<td>Ben Fisher</td>
<td>Completion, ideas, feedback, maybe someone who knows Sugar</td>
<td>I'm not sure whether this should be a dhtml-js or Python-gui. I have something that kinda works in Firefox.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>[[MIDIpad]]</td>
<td>A program for creating electronic music.</td>
<td>Unknown</td>
<td>Ben Fisher</td>
<td>A bit more planning, implementation. I don't have enough time to do this alone.</td>
<td>Although many people associate MIDIs with cheap crappy audio, this is only only because modern computers tend to use low-quality instruments. Back in the day, there were actually good-sounding MIDI sound cards. Timidity can also render using SoundFonts, and there are some very good SoundFonts available online.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Mp3 tagger</td>
<td>Program for adding/changing ID3 tags for mp3/ogg audio files. The freeware program Mp3Tag is very good but its source is closed. Also, I'd like to add some ways to make metadata entry faster.</td>
<td>Unknown</td>
<td>Ben Fisher</td>
<td>Finishing it, help with the gui</td>
<td>Will the user need to organize files? What is the XO's filesystem?</td>
</tr>


== Ideas for projects ==
<tr>
(hey look, I'm so empty. how sad.)
<td>[[USB GPS|USB GPS Device]]</td>
<td>Hardware GPS to connect to XO.</td>
<td>Unknown</td>
<td>Andy P</td>
<td>Software modification</td>
<td>This is another example of hardware that could produce value to international companies, creating income generation opportunities.</td>
</tr>


== Past projects/events ==
<tr>
<td>Development Image on ACL Machine</td>
<td>Install Sugar onto an ACL machine so we can play with it, and test things out faster than on the XOs</td>
<td>Mark Chang, hopefully</td>
<td>Stephen L</td>
<td>ACL Machine, Sugar image, Fedora</td>
<td>Should be useful</td>
</tr>


(we should really link these to something at some point.)
</table>


* [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/GuruFest Gurufest]
== Meeting notes ==
* Sugar on a stick
* Programming Design Challenge
* Olin/IMSA Intersession deployment at CFS
* Olin Hackathon
* [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/University_Chapter_Jam_Boston Game Jam]


== Helpful info ==
[[Image:Olin-university-chapter-students.JPG|right|Olin students visit the OLPC Boston office]]
*[[/wikiarchive|Archival]]
*[[/installation_guide|how to install images]]
*[[/xos|how to get an xo]]
*[[/Software/PythonTutorial|python wiki]]


== Contact Information ==
Archives of minutes can be viewed at the [[Olin university chapter/archives]] page.


The current Olin OLPC Chapter Pong Person is [[User:estar|Elsa Culler]]. Contact her for general questions.
=== 11/9/07 ===
==== Lynne ====
* Lynne works with special ed kids
* Lynne is only deaf person at school, everyone else can hear
* Got them involved with robotix (2002)
* Do it after school
* Saw Olin's website
* Creative things with few materials
* So far lego robotics and math
** want to move to not-lego robotics
* kids not quite making the grades for standardized tests
** mcats (MA state preformance tests)
*** reading
*** writing
*** social science
***science (lowest score in science))
* school is restructuring
* data analysis - look at mcat scores, see if doing well at math, etc
* students want project-based learning
* maybe do curriculum, with projects, focus on some data results (students scores)- ie bark-meter to see what dog is saying when barks
* interested in art, music, etc, try not to downsize
* K-5, ages 3-12
* VHP person came to school, gave school $10,000
** mentors keep kids from giving up
** especially girls give up
** not enough people


[[Category:College]]
==== want: ====
[[Category:XO User Group]]
* come to look at school, see if it's what we want to do
* implement project-based learning
* tag with Engineering Discovery (Needham, Heena)
* Steve is working in Hyde Park (FIRST)
* Andy P remedial math programs
* Wellesley connection:
** Andy P has connection
** SWE may have connection
** want to activate this

==== we should: ====
* meet with Engineering Discovery
** maybe semester-long project to integrate
*** robotic puppets, keyboards, etc
*** Fred Martin at UMASS develped the "cricket" (robotic computer)
*** can create puppets and interactive art, carwash

==== Haruna ====
* from tech boston
* size people department
* try to support schools in advanced projects,
* second year involved in robotics
* city-wide involvement
* middle school kids do FIRST

==== VEX: ====
* aluminum/steel
* halfway between lego robots and FIRST

* november 19th good time to visit principal?
** possibly in morning, at 10
** have a lot of data of student progress that we could look at for inspiration
** lots of % of students who don't understand this or that

* perfect solution:
** students think of a project to build and create
** brainstorming
** how to get a car to levitate?
** In the end, the kids say "I did this"
** mentorship seems to be key component
** sucessful, sucess often, sense of acomplishment, role model and content expertise
** emphasize student-built curriculum, less teacher talking, more student talking
** we can brainstorm projects for them, interesting ideas (solar cars?)
** Greg had Invention Convention in middle school
* grant is for MCATS, follows them from 3rd grade to 5th grade, for science classes.

== Current tasklist ==

* schedule visit to the Trotter School, coordinate with Engineering Discovery
* continue Yalp interface design
* schedule office hours
* brainstorming
* documentation

Latest revision as of 19:10, 25 September 2010

This is the wiki-homepage of the Olin College OLPC university chapter. Please edit!

Welcome!

The Olin College OLPC chapter is a student-run volunteer organization that works with Sugar Labs and OLPC. Our group is a mixed group of software and hardware engineer students, as well as people interested in curriculum design and technology-driven education. Our goals include learning and participating in a philanthropic cause as well as developing and exercising engineering and education skills

Our current (what exactly is our hierarchy? elsa fill me in here) yifiy 03:48, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Meetings

We have weekly meetings on Friday 3-5pm (Friday Service Time).

Meeting notes

Upcoming events

  • Friday Oct. 2 - Meeting with CFS and Mission Hill teachers for activity bundle (include link to appropriate page here)

Current big projects

TurtleArt After School Program

We're developing a curriculum to teach various math and engineering concepts using Turtle Art. The program will run spring 2010 with 10 3rd-5th graders from the Needham area Click here to visit the main Turtle Art After School Program page

XOBot

A robot that can be controlled directly from Turtle Art. Click here to visit the main XOBot page

Repair Center

Click here to visit the main Olin Repair Center page

Cambridge Friends School/Mission Hill Deployment

Click here to visit the main CFS deployment page

Support Gang participation

Ideas for projects

(hey look, I'm so empty. how sad.)

Past projects/events

(we should really link these to something at some point.)

  • Gurufest
  • Sugar on a stick
  • Programming Design Challenge
  • Olin/IMSA Intersession deployment at CFS
  • Olin Hackathon
  • Game Jam

Helpful info

Contact Information

The current Olin OLPC Chapter Pong Person is Elsa Culler. Contact her for general questions.

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