Reboot: Transmission from a Future Forest

Last Friday morning I had a really productive meeting with Faculty from Computer Science, Industrial Design as well as students from each department to reconnect on a collaboration we just started when everything closed down. The meeting was fruitful and we agreed to work together over the summer and into the fall as things begin to lift and until then online. I have several students in my classes right now already interested in working with Arduino and robotics so I am not only doing this for me. All the research can be reapplied as usual to my classroom.

I am beginning to understand that coding is a lot like a language in that it one must know the words, their meanings before one can write a useful, meaningful sentence. It’s not always logical or intuitive but more experience and time-based. A kind of learning that is more about building understanding. But I like it. It is a bit more fun than I imagined. This code was super simple and bare-minimal but I made up most of it based on a lesson and I got it right! So it’s not impossible.

In other news I got my plans squared up to travel as soon as school ends in June. Booked a camp site in the Deschutes National Forest and then a couple nights in Bend, one of my favorite MTB spots. A few days of fun in the high desert to let go of all that we thought we lost since March 14th. It’s not over. But we are getting some time off for good behavior. I think I am going to miss this stay-at-home life. Still have summer, and Fall is yet clear whether we’ll be back to F2F classes. One never really knows. But for a little bit of time, I can look forward to this escape.