Session 4

Sean Michel, John LaCascia, Peter Orlando 

Building off the success of last years (2021 - 2022) rat rod build, Oceanside High School has continued to challenge high school technology students. This past school year we built a twin turbo LS powered 83 4 door Impala on air ride.  In this presentation we will discuss how to source expensive auto parts, building stages and design, grading, student involvement, community involvement, its effect on student enrollment and our department's growth. 

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Donna Matteson, Jake Mulderig  

The SUNY Oswego Department of Technology offers the opportunity for high school juniors and seniors to earn college credit for TEL 101 Engineering Graphics and Technical Illustration. This presentation will discuss the logistics, school, and teacher requirements, and curriculum and instructional support. Attend this session to learn how you can get started. 

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Imran Husain   

When used effectively, educational technology can greatly contribute to increasing student equity. It removes barriers to learning materials, supports students where they are across varied learning contexts and needs, and gives educators more insight into the learning environments they’re creating. But while investments in technology have increased significantly driven by COVID-19, support for teachers to become better integrators of technology in the classroom, remains limited. Understanding teacher knowledge and skill gaps, relative to technology use in the classroom, can allow professional development to be personalized and targeted, and enable teachers to engage and inspire students, in an equitable way. 

This presentation will help district leaders and educators:

1. Learn the range of learning pathways that are possible for teachers to explore, using educational technology, and how these directly impact student equity

2. Understand the value of using periodic assessments/surveys of teachers to collect data on technology usage, preferences, and attitudes

3. Recognize how analytics can dramatically enhance the ability of districts to provide personalized educational technology support to teachers, and create a nurturing support environment for teachers

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Miranda Carman, Tyler Carman  

Are you having trouble coming up with new and exciting projects to teach basic technology concepts AND keep students engaged? We want to share three new projects with you, complete with ready-to borrow/make your own plans. Suitable for both middle school and high school courses. Utilize your CNC mill or CNC router and have students write their own G-code to create table-top mazes. Utilize your vinyl printer to create a sticker wall inspired by a designer's work. Utilize one to one ipads to create fun stop motion videos with simple materials and supplies. All this plus our do’s, don’ts and alternative options. Come join us to spice up your curriculum! 

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Leif Sorgule   

Participants will learn how to create an example tensegrity structure and how to model this unit in their tech Ed class. These structures create wow moments for students!

Tensional integrity or floating compression is a structural principle based on a system of isolated components under compression inside a network of continuous tension, and arranged in such a way that the compressed members (usually bars or struts) do not touch each other while the prestressed tensioned members (usually cables or tendons) delineate the system spatially. 

This is a DOUBLE LENGTH PRESENTATION and will continue into session 5.

Andrew Sass   

A detailed description of the design, construction, and programming of a small mobile robot capable of autonomous or remote-controlled operation will be presented. Each element of a mobile robot will be discussed; motors, encoders, motor-drivers, sensors, actuators, microcomputers, and microcomputer systems. The programming and microcomputer control of such robots will be presented in detail; motor-drive control, sensors detection, and robot reactions. Prior microcomputer/programming experience is not essential for this presentation. Applicability and affordability of such robots to school-based robotic competitions will be discussed in detail, including examples of exciting competitions sure to attract student interest. 

This is a DOUBLE LENGTH PRESENTATION and will continue into session 5.

Carson Case, Emily Blake, Daniel Dorney  

A presentation for any “new” teachers, whether you’re entering student teaching or already in your first few years. Come hear about our various experiences teaching middle school, high school, coaching sports, running extracurricular clubs, and balancing life. Teachers are responsible for doing so many things and play several roles inside and outside the classroom. We are going to share tips and tricks that have helped us manage it all. We will discuss several topics such as; lesson planning, classroom management, maintaining a technology laboratory, continuing education and professional development, advising tech related clubs, and coaching scholastic sports. This presentation centers around our experiences and how we adjusted to the transition from student to teacher and set boundaries between our professional and personal lives. We will also include time for your questions. 

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Gregory Bailey  

This presentation will help explain what 403(b)’s are and how they can be used to enhance your retirement income. Pitfalls and strategies will be discussed.   Find out if you are investing with the best company and what to do if you are not.  This presentation can save and/or help make you money. I’ve been teaching for over 36 years I will share a little of what I have learned over the years. 

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Jerry Jaworski, David Banister, John & Judith Belt, Charles Goodwin, Rich Bush   

Giving Back to the Technology Program - a hybrid event taking place in person, on campus & via Zoom

2:30pm @ Park Hall, in the Design Studio room 203

Join us for an intimate conversation to hear about the journey that our featured donors David Banister '93, John & Judith Belt, professors emeriti, Charles Goodwin '67 M'73 and Department Chair, Rich Bush ’92 M’97 have taken.

Why have they gotten involved with philanthropy? Why is this a meaningful connecting piece to them?

About our featured donors:
-David Banister '93 is a longtime advocate and retired public school teacher who has generously created and expanded multiple scholarships for Technology Education students at both the undergraduate and graduate level.

These scholarships have come to fruition in the present tense through David's passion to help feed the profession with new talent, in combination with practical age-appropriate financial planning, utilizing charitable commitments to offset certain IRS Taxes,especially around Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs).

-John & Judith Belt are our professors emeriti, Department of Technology. Together, they contain more than 60 years of combined service following “a shared philosophy that included education for all, social justice for humanity and the environment,critical thinking and civic awareness, sustainable practices supporting a global citizenship, mentorship for best educational practices.”

From this body of work, and the lifelong relationships they have forged with generations of former students across the country and across the globe, the Belt’s have introduced perpetual scholarship philanthropy as well as “Pre-Service Technology Educator Development” to support a range of opportunities such as covering fees to for students to travel to and attend a conference that would further their Oswego experience.

-Richard Bush ’92 M’97 with his wife Diane Kruse Bush ’92 M’99 have taken their range of love and service for SUNY Oswego to a place that profoundly stands side by side with their children, by including the Department of Technology within their estate planning to help secure the future for our next generation.

-The Charles Goodwin '67 M'73 Technology Education Scholarship has brought Chuck Goodwin’s enduring hunger to preserve the legacy of Technology Education to another level of connectivity. Not only does this generous scholarship fund that he created support the care and development of our soon to be teachers. But through the ongoing mentoring Chuck – long retired – and his scholars have engaged in, and through Chuck’s continued involvement at National Technology Conferences, another level of connectivity has emerged – as they all gather together at events across the country.

We hope that this session helps bring seemingly separate lives coming closer and closer together toward a similar impact.

Or join via Zoom...
Time: Oct 26, 2023 02:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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https://oswego-edu.zoom.us/j/92741077386
Meeting ID: 927 4107 7386

This is a DOUBLE LENGTH PRESENTATION and will continue into session 5.

Greg Pitonza   

Based on the book The Hand by Frank Wilson and research on the need for hands on expression, this presentation will reveal fundamental connections between the hand, brain and use string marionettes to foster meaningful learning and communication.  You will design and make a simple string marionette to serve as a model for hands on experience and related concepts.  It can be done with students k-12 to meet ITEEA STEL standards and extended for interdisciplinary and social emotional learning.  Be ready to have some fun and experience true hands on learning. 

This is a DOUBLE LENGTH PRESENTATION and will continue into session 5.