Professor Dan Zen and Technician Alex Geddie demonstrated a Sheridan iPhone application called The Magic Cue Ball – a play on the Magic Eight Ball prediction game. The students worked in Apple’s xCode and Interface Builder to connect up the interface and change the predictions used by the Cue Ball.
The students had a great time and loved working with the new technology.
Jocelyn Piercy, the Dean of Applied Computing and Engineering Sciences reports:
Phil Stubb’s work with our local school boards resulted in 400 very energetic grade 7 and 8 students from both Halton and Peel boards (Dufferin-Peel for the first time) spending a day on campus in technology workshops and getting a sense of what great futures they might have in science and technology. A Principal from Dufferin-Peel who was in attendance told me how impressed she was with the way our workshop leaders had engaged their students, and how the day would go a long way towards these students considering college programs and encouraging them to focus on science and math courses in high school … which it turns out might actually be fun! Those giving workshops really went above and beyond. Thank you for this. Workshops were:
- Crimp my cable – Bob Pearce
- Hook a crook – Tom King
- The amazing renewable race – Herb Sinnock and Dave Clark
- Pneumatics – David Felice
- Hubble bubble toil and trouble – Terry Davison and Mike Dancziger
- Creative modelling – Michael Arthur
- Computer throw down – Phil Stubbs
- I love iPhones – Alex Geddie and Dan Zen
Thanks to Julia, and to Angela and the folks in Recruitment, for organizing a terrific day for these students.
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