{"id":107,"date":"2017-04-02T23:29:03","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T03:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/?p=107"},"modified":"2017-04-02T23:29:03","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T03:29:03","slug":"dreaming-big-and-a-friend-helps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/2017\/04\/02\/dreaming-big-and-a-friend-helps\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreaming Big and a Friend Helps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=tomlinson_thom\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-size=\"large\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>The process of writing lesson plans incorporating micro sensors and micro energy harvesters proved a huge challenge. Finding a way to work in the concepts, programming and applications in a Biology class pushed me to the limits. Thank you ASSIST Center (<a href=\"https:\/\/assist.ncsu.edu\/\">https:\/\/assist.ncsu.edu\/<\/a>) and Kenan Fellows for pushing me outside my comfort zone.<\/p>\n<p>My experiences during the Kenan Fellowship, combined with this week\u2019s Ed Foo event, have me yearning to create a makerspace for my school. Students can work in the makerspace to create solutions to problems using Arduinos, Lily Pads and nano-sensors. Teachers can integrate the design and creation process, and the resulting products, into our broader curricular requirements.<\/p>\n<p>Dare I dream to model Vernon Malone\u2019s makerspace after the makerspace at D.H. Hill Library {https:\/\/www.lib.ncsu.edu\/spaces\/d-h-hill-makerspace) at North Carolina State University? Well, H E double hockey sticks, yes! Dream big or go home!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-104 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/258\/2017\/04\/20160617_110254-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/258\/2017\/04\/20160617_110254-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/258\/2017\/04\/20160617_110254-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/258\/2017\/04\/20160617_110254-768x767.jpg 768w, https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/258\/2017\/04\/20160617_110254-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/258\/2017\/04\/20160617_110254-624x624.jpg 624w, https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/258\/2017\/04\/20160617_110254-176x176.jpg 176w, https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/258\/2017\/04\/20160617_110254-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oh, by the way. When taking on challenges and slaying dragons, its good to have a canine companion waiting for you at home. Here&#8217;s my stress reducer, frisbee companion and friend Zoey.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-103 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/258\/2017\/04\/Zoey-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/258\/2017\/04\/Zoey-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/258\/2017\/04\/Zoey-768x1191.jpg 768w, https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/258\/2017\/04\/Zoey-661x1024.jpg 661w, https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/258\/2017\/04\/Zoey-624x967.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The process of writing lesson plans incorporating micro sensors and micro energy harvesters proved a huge challenge. Finding a way to work in the concepts, programming and applications in a Biology class pushed me to the limits. Thank you ASSIST Center (https:\/\/assist.ncsu.edu\/) and Kenan Fellows for pushing me outside my comfort zone. My experiences during the Kenan Fellowship, combined with&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/2017\/04\/02\/dreaming-big-and-a-friend-helps\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":488,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.kenanfellows.org\/2017-ttomlinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}