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Nicole Pi

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Sam Houston

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Caleb Barlow

Brian Kelly

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James Hunt

Think of a high school club, and you might think about a group of young students meeting regularly to engage in a common topic. Accurate, but the Del Norte High School's Team Optix 3749 Club builds robots and competes with them. This, and so much more.At its core, the purpose behind Team Optix 3749 is to provide an environment for students to learn about technology and robotics; to offer a place for them to build and test their own robots as they prepare to compete in the FIRST Robotics Competitions.Listen to our guests, Nicole Pi and James Hunt, and you'll hear about a highly successful club that gets students to participate; successful in raising funds to keep the club running; and successful in building and competing with their robots.And this is where things go way beyond just their club.The mission for Team Optix 3749 is to also lend aid to the community by teaching students valuable skills in computer science, business, entrepreneurship, and other fields that are often not included in school curriculums. The team also graciously shares some of the funds they raise with other clubs in the high school to ensure they can enhance the learning and life experiences of more students.Furthermore, the team also goes above and beyond technology and business in the community to help the citizens as they host food and supply drives; they did not allow the current pandemic to deter them.Team Optix 3749 hopes to expand its impact to reach more students and do more for the community. Our hope is that you listen to this episode and leave with a bit of inspiration to take action yourself.GuestsNicole Pi, VP of Strategy of Team Optix 3749 | Sophmore at Del Norte High School: class of 2023James Hunt, Outreach Director of Team Optix 3749 | Junior at Del Norte High School: class of 2022This Episode’s SponsorsBugcrowd: https://itspm.ag/itspbgcwebDevo: https://itspm.ag/itspdvwebResourcesTeam Optix is Del Norte High School's FIRST Robotics Competition team: https://www.team3749.orgTo see and hear more The Academy content on ITSPmagazine, visit:https://www.itspmagazine.com/the-academyAre you interested in sponsoring an ITSPmagazine Channel?https://www.itspmagazine.com/podcast-series-sponsorships

Think of a high school club, and you might think about a group of young students meeting regularly to engage in a common topic. Accurate, but the Del Norte High School's Team Optix 3749 Club builds robots and competes with them. This, and so much more.At its core, the purpose behind Team Optix 3749 is to provide an environment for students to learn about technology and robotics; to offer a place for them to build and test their own robots as they prepare to compete in the FIRST Robotics Competitions.Listen to our guests, Nicole Pi and James Hunt, and you'll hear about a highly successful club that gets students to participate; successful in raising funds to keep the club running; and successful in building and competing with their robots.And this is where things go way beyond just their club.The mission for Team Optix 3749 is to also lend aid to the community by teaching students valuable skills in computer science, business, entrepreneurship, and other fields that are often not included in school curriculums. The team also graciously shares some of the funds they raise with other clubs in the high school to ensure they can enhance the learning and life experiences of more students.Furthermore, the team also goes above and beyond technology and business in the community to help the citizens as they host food and supply drives; they did not allow the current pandemic to deter them.Team Optix 3749 hopes to expand its impact to reach more students and do more for the community. Our hope is that you listen to this episode and leave with a bit of inspiration to take action yourself.Guests Nicole Pi, VP of Strategy of Team Optix 3749 | Sophmore at Del Norte High School: class of 2023James Hunt, Outreach Director of Team Optix 3749 | Junior at Del Norte High School: class of 2022This Episode’s SponsorsBugcrowd: <a href="https://itspm.ag/itspbgcweb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://itspm.ag/itspbgcweb</a>Devo: <a href="https://itspm.ag/itspdvweb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://itspm.ag/itspdvweb</a>Resources Team Optix is Del Norte High School's FIRST Robotics Competition team: <a href="https://www.team3749.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.team3749.org</a>To see and hear more The Academy content on ITSPmagazine, visit: <a href="https://www.itspmagazine.com/the-academy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.itspmagazine.com/the-academy</a>Are you interested in sponsoring an ITSPmagazine Channel? <a href="https://www.itspmagazine.com/podcast-series-sponsorships" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.itspmagazine.com/podcast-series-sponsorships</a>

How A High School Robotics Team Leverages Their Success For The Benefit Of Other High School Clubs And The Community | The Academy | A Conversation With Nicole Pi And James Hunt

Ellen Xu

Sanvi Pal

Ted Harrington

Teaching and learning is an ongoing experiment. As society, cultures, and technology change, so do the way the new generations learn best and, therefore, the methodologies we should adopt to teach them.In this episode of The Academy with team members from the student-run Elevate the Future, we invited a special guest, Ted Harrington, to help us explore how today's students want to learn—and learn in a meaningful way. Today's students are looking for activities, engagements, and experiences that best match their everyday environments and where they will want to grow their passions and their future careers.Ultimately, it's about making learning fun and interesting, questioning everything, looking at things from different perspectives, and considering that sometimes we have to break things—or concepts—to understand how they work, or how they could be better. If it sounds like a hacker mindset, well, that's because it is.By now, we should know that learning is not about arriving at the correct answer as most of the time a right or wrong outcome may simply not exist. We likely also know that teaching is not about presenting information and expecting the memorization of it; rather, it's about stimulating curiosity, encouraging problem solving, sharing knowledge and experience, and ultimately teaching students how to learn for the rest of their lives.A good teacher will stimulate more questions than answers.We hope you have many questions of your own once you finish listening to this podcast."Thinking about a problem in different ways, it also helps you understand it better and you're able to apply your knowledge later on; kids just have a deeper understanding of it." —Nicole Pi"We also have activities in the breakout rooms which helped [students] reinforce the concepts that they just learned." —Sanvi Pal"You mentioned this idea of students are motivated to build things and I completely agree with that. In my field, which has a tremendous shortage of talent, what we do is we break things that others have built. One of the things that is the bottleneck that prevents computer scientists from going on to becoming ethical hackers is because of that exact motivation." —Ted Harrington"What we're really trying to do here at Elevate the Future San Diego is to make it less like a class or a lecture, but more like a workshop or a hands-on experience where [students] get to try something new." —Ellen XuGuest(s)Ellen Xu | Nicole Pi | Sanvi PalSpecial Guest: Ted HarringtonThis Episode’s Sponsors:Bugcrowd: https://itspm.ag/itspbgcwebDevo: https://itspm.ag/itspdvwebTo see and hear more The Academy content on ITSPmagazine, visit:https://www.itspmagazine.com/the-academyStay tuned for more from Elevate the Future: https://www.itspmagazine.com/elevate-the-futureAre you interested in sponsoring an ITSPmagazine Channel?https://www.itspmagazine.com/podcast-series-sponsorships

Teaching and learning is an ongoing experiment. As society, cultures, and technology change, so do the way the new generations learn best and, therefore, the methodologies we should adopt to teach them.In this episode of The Academy with team members from the student-run Elevate the Future, we invited a special guest, Ted Harrington, to help us explore how today's students want to learn—and learn in a meaningful way. Today's students are looking for activities, engagements, and experiences that best match their everyday environments and where they will want to grow their passions and their future careers.Ultimately, it's about making learning fun and interesting, questioning everything, looking at things from different perspectives, and considering that sometimes we have to break things—or concepts—to understand how they work, or how they could be better. If it sounds like a hacker mindset, well, that's because it is.By now, we should know that learning is not about arriving at the correct answer as most of the time a right or wrong outcome may simply not exist. We likely also know that teaching is not about presenting information and expecting the memorization of it; rather, it's about stimulating curiosity, encouraging problem solving, sharing knowledge and experience, and ultimately teaching students how to learn for the rest of their lives.A good teacher will stimulate more questions than answers.We hope you have many questions of your own once you finish listening to this podcast."Thinking about a problem in different ways, it also helps you understand it better and you're able to apply your knowledge later on; kids just have a deeper understanding of it." —Nicole Pi"We also have activities in the breakout rooms which helped [students] reinforce the concepts that they just learned." —Sanvi Pal"You mentioned this idea of students are motivated to build things and I completely agree with that. In my field, which has a tremendous shortage of talent, what we do is we break things that others have built. One of the things that is the bottleneck that prevents computer scientists from going on to becoming ethical hackers is because of that exact motivation." —Ted Harrington"What we're really trying to do here at Elevate the Future San Diego is to make it less like a class or a lecture, but more like a workshop or a hands-on experience where [students] get to try something new." —Ellen XuGuest(s) Ellen Xu | Nicole Pi | Sanvi PalSpecial Guest: Ted HarringtonThis Episode’s Sponsors:Bugcrowd: <a href="https://itspm.ag/itspbgcweb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://itspm.ag/itspbgcweb</a>Devo: <a href="https://itspm.ag/itspdvweb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://itspm.ag/itspdvweb</a> To see and hear more The Academy content on ITSPmagazine, visit: <a href="https://www.itspmagazine.com/the-academy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.itspmagazine.com/the-academy</a>Stay tuned for more from Elevate the Future: <a href="https://www.itspmagazine.com/elevate-the-future" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.itspmagazine.com/elevate-the-future</a>Are you interested in sponsoring an ITSPmagazine Channel? <a href="https://www.itspmagazine.com/podcast-series-sponsorships" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.itspmagazine.com/podcast-series-sponsorships</a>

How Today’s Students Learn Best And The Value Of Breaking Stuff | A Conversation With Elevate The Future’s Ellen Xu, Nicole Pi, Sanvi Pal, And Special Guest Ted Harrington