Tim Ginn’s Personal Blog

My Lego Robotics kids are awesome. What could be cooler than mentoring a bunch of 9-14 year olds playing with Lego and Robotics (we’re getting the brand new NXT system, too). Today was the first meeting and they watched some of the FIRST Lego League kickoff videos then we had a bit of a Q&A. Tuesdays are actually pretty good since the bus to Sempar passes campus right after my tutorial finishes. Tomorrow at 4:30 P.M. is the deadline for applications for mentors so at that point I’ll know who else is interested in helping. I filled in the Police Check form online so that should be ready in a week or two. There’s another FLL rookie team in Kingston made up of home-schoolers and we’re probably going to get together to do a practice competition before the real one at Calvin Park on November 11th.

Now, to do the less fun task of studying for the Algorithms (CISC365) test.

Well, I’m ready for select people to start testing some of the new FIRST Blogs features. For those of you who read this blog, Here’s a sneak peak at one feature (topics for organisation). Those of you who have been invited to test the new stuff can create your own topic / reading list (which has an RSS feed associated with it, too), so, you can choose only those blogs/topics you’re interested in and subscribe to them all at once. If anyone wants in on the testing let me know.

Userbars seem to be the current trendy thing on Chief Delphi, so, I’ve created a FIRST Blogs one.

The BB code:


[url=http://blog.openfirst.org/][img]http://www.openfirst.org/image/userbar/firstblogs.png[/img][/url]


Which gives you this bar:

(linked to FIRST Blogs).

For any of you wanting to make your own Userbars, check out Userbar Maker (no Photoshop skills required). If someone wants to make an openFIRST one that would be cool.