Summer Computing Institute / Maine
Summer Computer Aided Design institute a
success! Click here to see PowerPoint of the week and student work!
June 25th through the 29th proved to be a most exhilarating week for Dr.
Andrew Anderson, Jason Howard, Ben Fulton, and Pauline Mateyko!
Eight students from southern and central Maine gathered together at the John Mitchell Building on the Gorham Campus of the University of Southern Maine ready to tackle new and unknown computer software. With guidance from Professor and Associate Dean, Dr. Andrew Anderson, Manager of Computing Technology, Jason Howard and USM student Ben Fulton, the students were led through the manufacturing design process. The goal was to learn the SolidWorks CAD programs and actually design and produce an actual plastic prototype of an iPod holder to take home.
Students showed the first day that they were absorbing the information very quickly and creatively. They learned the functions of the program and put them to real use. As students went along they took snapshots of their work and learning to fill the slides of a PowerPoint for a presentation to guests on the last day.
Visitors from Kai-iD, a local business that uses Solidworks software, showed the kids the real life application of what they were learning. A tour of Lanco in Westbrook allowed students to see the steps after the design process and its real life applications. They actually were involved in designing an important piece to a process that actually assembles parts to make a whole product!
See the PowerPoint that guests viewed as lunch time entertainment! Also available is Brandon's PowerPoint, as an example of student work.
If you know of high school students with a disability interested in this type of summer computing institute please let me know. I will put them on my mailing list for next year!
If you would like to be contacted for next summer's computing camp please contact us to be put on the mailing list!
EAST is funded under
National Science Foundation Award No. HRD 0833567.
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and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
