Week of October 9

This week, we will continue work on the shed design in Revit.  We will also create a sample roof model to illustrate the different styles of roofs in different house designs.  Plan to be completed with your shed design by the end of class on Thursday.  Note the specific drawings that are required in the activity.

The school license with Autodesk allows students to download a copy of Revit for use at home for educational purposes.  If you wish to download the software to enhance your learning or to enable yourself to complete assignments at home, go to the Autodesk student web site to download it.  The download is quite large and will take some time, and you will have to provide an email for registration purposes.  Be sure that you download the correct version - Revit Architecture 2012 as other versions may not be compatible with the files that you create at school.

Don't forget that Monday is a holiday.

Samsung Field Trip
For those going on the Samsung field trip on Tuesday, be at my room (601) at 8:45.  We will meet there so that you can leave any items that you don't need with you in the storage room.  Samsung does not allow any type of electronic devices (including phones, MP3 players, cameras, and USB drives or storage cards) in their facility.  It would be best for you to leave them at home or with a friend on Tuesday.  The bus will be unattended and unlocked in Samsung's parking lot and may not be secure for you to leave valuable items.  The bus needs to leave at 9:00 because Samsung wants to start at 9:45.  In addition to the travel time, it will take 10 or so minutes to get everyone signed in through security.  We should return to the school between 2:00 and 2:30, so you will be back for the start of 8th period.

FADE Starts Wednesday
For those who signed up for the Future Aggies Design Exhibition, the kick-off is Wednesday.  Meet in my room after school, and I should by then have the design task that we are asked to perform.  I am excited about this because we ended up with 18 students registered which gave us 3 teams of six future engineers each.  You can keep up to date with the information as it is released by the Texas A&M Student Engineering Council at their web site.

PSAT October 17
Juniors and Seniors will take the PSAT test during the morning class periods next Wednesday (Oct 17).  Freshman and sophomores are still expected to be at school and will have classes planned for them.  When all have finished testing, we will continue with the regular 7th & 8th period schedules for the afternoon, so there will be no CEA class that day.