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Activities Summer Internship Program at IBM Almaden Summer 2001 Interns, members of the explorer post, were given the opportunity to participate in a week long internship at the IBM Almaden Research Center. Some of the activities include: Computer Science, Learning about the Atomic Force Microscope, Electrical Engineering, Organic Chemistry, Creating Web Pages using HTML, Robolab , Networks,Model Shop Activity, designs with Catia,and FIBS.
You Can Be an Intern! Want to know how you can be a future intern and learn firsthand about these exciting topics? Internships are one week long and held during July and August. For more information about future internship opportunities, contact Charlie Balkon. Upcoming Activities
Flight Simulator Explorers Take to the Skies Have you ever wondered what it might be like to fly a plane? Have you ever wondered how a flight simulator works to mimic the movements and sights a pilot sees? We recently acquired an aeroplane flight simulator from NASA and our challenge will be to repair this simulator. The fun really sets in when we test the simulator's capabilities! See
photos of the simulator. Come help us fix it!What a great learning
opportunity!
Build A Robot Have
A Spare Robot Lying Around? The Explorers built a robot during the summer of 1998 from spare parts and materials. The robot frame is built from 1" angle aluminum and has lawnmower tires for drive wheels. The back wheels are a pair of casters. The tethered control is simply two normally open pushbutton switches. The gearboxes and motors are run by a single 12-V gellcell battery mounted directly over the drive axle.
We have more work to do on the robot!First, we need to decide what
we want the robot to do!Adding an arm or a camera are possibilities...
we can also think about making the robot autonomous by adding some
intelligence. Join us sometime and help engineer the Explorer Post
2100 Robot!
Almaden
IBM and Explorers Team Up for the Birds
Long-time SCVAS member Charles Wade reports that birdhouse assembling parties at Charles and Kim Wade's house in Los Gatos have resulted in the recent donation of 7 kestrel nestboxes, 24 blue- bird houses, and 15 swallow houses to the SCVAS Bluebird Recovery Program. The volunteers from the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose CA included Scouts from Scouts Explorer Post 2100 (Cathy Balkon, Arthur Runyan, Neal Vora, Brian Armstrong, Nita Jenne, Danielle Carlson, Jennifer Dutra and the Post leader Charlie Balkon). A hearty Thanks to all! Talk, Demo and Tour Topics This is just a partial listing of the topics we Explored recently. If you find any of this interesting and exciting, please come to the meetings to learn more!
Recent Speakers
Recent Participation In the past few months we've participated in some local activities in addition to our own talks and tours.
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