G'Day Flitetest
I am a young Art/Design/IT teacher in a Australian Country school.
Love my job teaching websites, films, computer games, graphic design, painting, illustration, woodwork ...etc.
One of the senior teachers approached me about creating a class for 2015, he wanted to see something that students would find challenging, exciting, computer focused and interdisciplinary with links to science, maths, technical drawing, IT and multimedia.
As he was talking all I heard was STUDENTS + FLITE TEST SWAPPABLE SERIES == FUN & LEARNING
I did my first scratch build, and built a bloody wonder swappable, able to work out costs, tools and build time. And got the approval I needed from the principal.
Below is a short video of the first test flight... so many things wrong, Prop & motor are undersized, tail heavy, massive throws on elevator & "still learning" pilot... but after a 3 hour build, and 15mins before lunch it was a good proof of concept, and got the approval I needed.
You can imagine I have virtually every student in Year 10 (about age 14-16) wanting to join the class and majority are female students.
Considering I will be using some of beginner series videos in class, figure I can repay the favour by documenting as much of the course as I can and providing as many of the activities and resources here as I can.
Thought I would share now, Thanks Flite Test , will update in acouple of weeks with a promo video as we approach "2015 subject selection"
Cheers,
Mr H
I am a young Art/Design/IT teacher in a Australian Country school.
Love my job teaching websites, films, computer games, graphic design, painting, illustration, woodwork ...etc.
One of the senior teachers approached me about creating a class for 2015, he wanted to see something that students would find challenging, exciting, computer focused and interdisciplinary with links to science, maths, technical drawing, IT and multimedia.
As he was talking all I heard was STUDENTS + FLITE TEST SWAPPABLE SERIES == FUN & LEARNING
I did my first scratch build, and built a bloody wonder swappable, able to work out costs, tools and build time. And got the approval I needed from the principal.
You can imagine I have virtually every student in Year 10 (about age 14-16) wanting to join the class and majority are female students.
Considering I will be using some of beginner series videos in class, figure I can repay the favour by documenting as much of the course as I can and providing as many of the activities and resources here as I can.
Thought I would share now, Thanks Flite Test , will update in acouple of weeks with a promo video as we approach "2015 subject selection"
Cheers,
Mr H