Jill Hubbard wears many hats, and this summer at SuperQuest it’s a gamer’s cap. She’s teaching teachers, sharing her experiences from her Game Development class at Tualatin High School (sandwiched between her Engineering, programming, and robotics duties). These pictures were taken at the Wilsonville SuperQuest, where the event and instructors got great reviews. You still […]

Don Domes gives his class of teachers a small number of LEGO pieces, access to some student-appropriate internet resources, a worksheet, markers, whiteboards, lots of hands on time to practice, and very little lecturing. Some teachers have no previous experience, some have a couple of years, but all are engaged and making progress at showing […]

Jason Galbraith from Sunset High taught App Development to a darkened roomful of teachers in Wilsonville — we let them back into the light for Lunch and Learn Speakers. Right now in Redmond, Melissa Kessler’s App Inventor class is going strong (but no pictures — yet). And next week in Pendleton, Melissa will be teaching […]

Tom Thompson, Industrial and Engineering Systems Education Specialist at the Oregon Department of Education (ODE) came for lunch — and we had him give a dog and pony show: “The Current Status and Future Direction of CTE in Oregon”. His slides are here. Key points: CTE = Career and Technical Education  CTE is about education and about […]

One thing teachers who attend SuperQuest find really useful: the time to talk with their peers, share resources, and brainstorm around issues of classroom management, pedagogy, and student learning (and all the really good teachers I have known treat these as separate things, complexly interlinked.) Some CTE teachers gathered for lunch, then headed off to […]

Teachers teaching teachers … silence in the room, except for the chuk-chuk-shhh-chuk of the 3D printer. Chris here has been to many SuperQuests; usually I see him in one of the robotics classes, but this time he’s in Digital Design and Manufacturing. His classmates are working the vinyl cutter and the CAD software on their […]

 Registrations for all 7 sites now open. More Graduate Credit options approved. More courses at multiple sites. New courses. FAQ added to the pulldown menu. Change of venue in Wilsonville. Check it out at oregoncsta.org. Changes have been coming fast and furious — kinda like playing PacMan or Asteroids, so I have been mostly absent from […]

Where can I register? Everywhere I click on the photo, I end up in Wilsonville. Oops! Apologies, we left up a prototype. We expect to have it fixed by Monday. As of Friday, June 10, 6:49 pm, click on these links for more info and to find the bright orange registration buttons under the list of […]

Congratulations to Chris Bartlo and Nick Nohner. Why? Chris Bartlo is also teaching at SuperQuests in Wilsonville and Southern Oregon this summer. Respectfully submitted, Jo Oshiro, jo@oregoncsta.org Update: Southern Oregon, not Grants Pass Update: Embedded video! Featured image

Course descriptions updated here. Site descriptions — exactly where? What courses? Touristy links? and, for a couple of sites, who is speaking at lunch? Wilsonville, June 22-24 **note venue change to Clackamas CC!** Wilsonville Symposium, June 25 West Salem, June 27-29 Redmond, July 13-15 Pendleton, July 20-22 ** corrected from 20-23 ** Newport, July 27-29 […]