6 AGO 2021 · The Robotics Education and Competition (REC) Foundation has been running robotics programs for youth for years, including the widespread global competitions sponsored by VEX Robotics. Dan Mantz is the CEO of the REC Foundation, leading this nonprofit through the pandemic, after previously working in industrial engineering and robotics for over twenty years. He talks about the REC Foundation’s mission, how they changed their competitions during COVID, and their newer programs in manufacturing education and workforce development. Related to this episode: • REC Foundation: https://www.roboticseducation.org/ • FANUC America: https://www.fanucamerica.com/ • Rack Solutions: https://www.racksolutions.com/ • VEX Robotics: https://www.vexrobotics.com/ • Northrup Grumman Foundation: https://www.northropgrumman.com/corporate-responsibility/corporate-citizenship/northrop-grummans-philanthropic-initiatives/ • RECFoundation YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/RECFoundation • Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Institute: https://arminstitute.org/ • p500 robot to paint cars https://www.robots.com/robots/fanuc-p-500 • Engineer’s Guide to Improv & Art Games on Audible.com: https://www.audible.com/pd/B09BDMF9DD/?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-270162&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_270162_rh_us Subscribe and find more podcast information at: http://www.k12engineering.net. Support Pios Labs with regular donations on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs. You’ll also be supporting projects like the Engineer’s Guide to Improv and Art Games, The Calculator Gator, or Chordinates! Thanks to our donors and listeners for making the show possible. The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com.

5 MAR 2021 · LEDs, or light-emitting diodes, have changed the world – and continue to do so. This energy-efficient electronics technology came from decades of design and discovery in engineering. Dr. Russell Dupuis is one of the engineers behind LEDs, and he recently was one of five winners of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering for his work in this technology. Dr. Dupuis explains his contribution to creating thin-film electronics necessary for LEDs, starting from his university days in Illinois, and he also discusses its implications for the future. He currently is a professor of electrical engineering at Georgia Tech. This is a joint episode with The K12 Engineering Education Podcast and Engineering Word Of The Day. Related to this episode: • Dr. Russell Dupuis: https://www.ece.gatech.edu/faculty-staff-directory/russell-dean-dupuis • Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering: https://qeprize.org/ • Dr. Nick Holanyak, Jr: https://ece.illinois.edu/about/directory/faculty/nholonya • Dr. M. George Craford: https://www.nae.edu/128635/Dr-M-George-Craford • Dr. Isamu Ishikawa: https://www.nae.edu/128633/Dr-Isamu-Akasaki • Dr. Shuji Nakamura: https://materials.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/shuji-nakamura • Texas Instruments: https://www.ti.com/ • Rockwell International: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockwell_International • Dr. Harold Manasevit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_M._Manasevit • MOCVD (metal-organic chemical vapor deposition): https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/chemistry/metal-organic-chemical-vapor-deposition • SpaceX launches 60 more satellites for its Starlink service on the heels of opening up access: https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/16/spacex-launches-60-more-satellites-for-its-starlink-service-on-the-heels-of-opening-up-access/ • The Martian: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3659388/ • p-n junctions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%E2%80%93n_junction • epitaxy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epitaxy • UIUC Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering: https://ece.illinois.edu/ • Development and future of ultraviolet light-emitting diodes: UV-LED will replace the UV lamp: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0268-1242/29/8/084004/meta • PhoneSoap: https://www.phonesoap.com/ Subscribe and find more podcast information at: http://www.k12engineering.net. Support Pios Labs with regular donations on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs. You’ll also be supporting projects like the Engineer’s Guide to Improv and Art Games, The Calculator Gator, or Chordinates! Thanks to our donors and listeners for making the show possible. The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com.

3 FEB 2021 · How do you learn web development without a computer, or without any electronic device? Sam Taylor wrote a book to help learners do just that. As a former middle school teacher and current tech worker, Sam wrote the newly released educational book titled The Coding Workbook, which intends to teach the basics of HTML and CSS, but with no computer required. Hear the discussion about this new book, accessibility to STEM education, what teaching middle school science is like, and more. Related to this episode: • The Coding Workbook: https://nostarch.com/CodingWorkbook • NGSS (Next Generation Science Standards): https://www.nextgenscience.org/ • Harvard CS50, Intro to Computer Science: https://online-learning.harvard.edu/course/cs50-introduction-computer-science • JavaScript for Kids: https://nostarch.com/javascriptforkids • Girls Who Code: https://girlswhocode.com/ • Sam Taylor on Twitter: https://twitter.com/samtaylor_css Subscribe and find more podcast information at: http://www.k12engineering.net. Support Pios Labs with regular donations on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs. You’ll also be supporting projects like the Engineer’s Guide to Improv and Art Games, The Calculator Gator, or Chordinates! Thanks to our donors and listeners for making the show possible. The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com.

22 GEN 2021 · Mishaal Ashemimry is an aerospace engineer and pilot who, after working for major aerospace organizations, formed her own aerospace startup to design rockets for small, low-Earth orbit satellites. As a Saudi American, she got interested in the stars when she was young, looking up at the sky while visiting Saudi Arabia. She describes many parts of her path in this career, including love of math, starting a business, being recognized as the first female aerospace engineer in the Gulf Cooperation Council, and her role as an Arabic-speaking STEM education social media influencer. Related to this episode: • Mishaal Ashemimry’s profile: https://www.mishaalashemimry.com/ • Encarta: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encarta • Zinc and hydrochloric acid reaction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4XITC225uk • BattleBots TV series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BattleBots • FIRST Robotics Competition: https://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/frc • NASA Marshall Spaceflight Center: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/home/index.html • Raytheon Technologies: https://www.rtx.com/en • NERVA program on nuclear rockets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA • MISHAAL Aerospace: https://www.mishaalaerospace.com/home • SBIR funding: https://www.sbir.gov/ • Article on Wired, SpaceX Engine Failure Claims Experimental Satellite: https://www.wired.com/2012/10/spacex-nasa-investigation/ • DOF (degree of freedom): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degrees_of_freedom_(statistics) • Mishaal’s YouTube channel on STEM, largely in Arabic: https://www.youtube.com/c/MishaalAshemimry Subscribe and find more podcast information at: http://www.k12engineering.net. Support Pios Labs with regular donations on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs. You’ll also be supporting projects like the Engineer’s Guide to Improv and Art Games, The Calculator Gator, or Chordinates! Thanks to our donors and listeners for making the show possible. The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com.

29 DIC 2020 · Let’s make equations musical. Instead of visualizing equations on a graph, let’s listen to them on the piano, merging all our math and music knowledge. You can make two-dimensional x-y math equations audible – or sonify them – by translating the x-values to time and the y-values to the keys of a piano. If you can’t play them on the piano yourself, we can use the free web app Chordinates! by Pios Labs to do it instead. Listen to the sound of coordinates, linear equations, polynomials, trigonometric functions, and random distributions of notes on the piano, and analyze their patterns. Then take the audio review quiz at the end, complete with extended creative and technical challenges. Got your own reactions to this episode? Would love to hear your thoughts. Related to this episode: • Chordinates! beta, a free web by Pios Labs: https://www.pioslabs.com/chordinates/ • Coordinate plane, from Desmos.com: https://www.desmos.com/calculator/q8mwzeylbk • HCI Beyond the GUI, book by Philip Kortum: https://www.amazon.com/HCI-Beyond-GUI-Nontraditional-Technologies/dp/0123740177/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1241987101&sr=8-1 • Google nGram viewer, for analyzing the prevalence of the words “sonify” and “sonification”: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=sonify%2Csonification&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3&direct_url=t1%3B%2Csonify%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Csonification%3B%2Cc0 Music credits: All clips used are under Creative Commons 0 Licenses, including from the following artists. • Tyler Schanck, The Wandermiles: www.thewandermiles.com • Doctor Dreamchip: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbhlcItuC6pmhhemUjhPt1w • Moz5a: www.mankus.co.uk • Sondre Drakensson: https://soundcloud.com/drakensson93 • Eathan Markson: https://soundcloud.com/eathan-markson • Don Veca: https://soundcloud.com/dveca/sets/generative-jazz • Komit: https://freesound.org/people/Komit./ • Epon Audio: https://www.patreon.com/EponAudio?fan_landing=true • Nate Ziller: http://www.nateziller.com/ • Julian Evans: http://www.julianevans.info/ Equations referenced: • y = x, https://www.pioslabs.com/chordinates/index.html?&x=x-scale-custom&xmin=0&xmax=51 • y = -2x, https://www.pioslabs.com/chordinates/index.html?&x=x-scale-custom&params=-2,0&xmin=0&xmax=51 • Linear equation, minor scale: https://www.pioslabs.com/chordinates/index.html?&m=diatonic-cminor&x=x-scale-custom&params=1,-1&xmin=0&xmax=51 • Linear equation, chromatic scale: https://www.pioslabs.com/chordinates/index.html?&m=chromatic&x=x-scale-chromatic-origin&y=y-scale-chromatic-origin • y = x^2, https://www.pioslabs.com/chordinates/index.html?f=quadratic-standard&x=x-scale-custom&params=1,0,0&xmin=0&xmax=51 • y = 16sin(x), free rhythm, https://www.pioslabs.com/chordinates/index.html?f=trigonometric-sin&r=rhythm-even-y&params=16,1,0,0 • y = 5vtan((1/2)x), free rhythm, https://www.pioslabs.com/chordinates/index.html?f=trigonometric-tan&r=rhythm-even-y&params=5,0.5,0,0 • Square wave, amplitude = 2, offset = 2, major 3rd harmony, https://www.pioslabs.com/chordinates/index.html?f=sgn-cos&h=harmony-majorthird&params=2,1,2 • y = uniform random distribution, from -23 to 28, https://www.pioslabs.com/chordinates/index.html?f=statistical-rand-uniform&params=28,-23 Subscribe and find more podcast information at: http://www.k12engineering.net. Support Pios Labs with regular donations on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs. You’ll also be supporting projects like the Engineer’s Guide to Improv and Art Games, The Calculator Gator, or Chordinates! Thanks to our donors and listeners for making the show possible. The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com.

19 NOV 2020 · Army Futures Command (AFC) is partnering with Austin Community College (ACC) in Texas to create a new Software Factory, which will be a software development training program for Army soldiers. Planned to start in January, it will blend training of both soldiers and civilians in newer tech practices in agile development. Maj. Vito Errico from AFC will co-lead the Software Factory, and he joins the podcast to describe its goals. Garrett Groves, Vice President of Business and Industry Partnerships, also joins the podcast to explain how ACC is uniquely aligned to support such a program. They also explain what K-12 educators should know about these plans. Related to this episode: • Army Futures Command (AFC): https://www.army.mil/futures • Austin Community College (ACC): https://www.austincc.edu/ • Maj. Vito Errico: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vito-errico-633953a8/ • Garrett Groves: https://www.austincc.edu/offices/president/cabinet/vice-president-business-and-industry-partnerships • General Assembly, example coding bootcamp: https://generalassemb.ly/ • Agile software development: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development • MVP (minimum viable product): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_product • Army Futures Command announces software factory in Austin: https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/austin-texas-army-futures-command-software-factory/269-d84df6b7-1c67-4470-8133-3ad892895336 • Federal Registered Apprenticeship Programs: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/apprenticeship/federal-apprenticeships Subscribe and find more podcast information at: http://www.k12engineering.net. Support Pios Labs with regular donations on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs. You’ll also be supporting projects like the Engineer’s Guide to Improv and Art Games, The Calculator Gator, or Chordinates! Thanks to our donors and listeners for making the show possible. The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com.