XRMarin Opens our Industry Insights Lecture Series for Fall 2018

Beyond Our Experience:
Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality & 360 Film

with
John Macleod
Director XRLibraries, XR Marin

Wednesday, September 5, at Lunch
Engineering Tech Building, Room #17
Open to All Students / Pizza Will be Served

 

Meet

John Macleod, Director of XR Libraries at XR Marin, a new regional training center for emerging technologies. XR Marin was spearheaded by Marin County Office of Education as a new hub for learning, innovation, and collaboration among students, professionals, and industry leaders.

Learn

about these emerging technologies and discover the tools needed to create your own immersive experience in VR, AR, XR and 360 film.  

Ask

an industry leader questions about these exciting new technologies and how you can engage in learning opportunities at XR Marin.

More info please contact Owen Bartolf, Lead Student Mentor at owen.bartolf@gmail.com

Extra, Extra! AE@TL Helps to Get the Story!

AE@TL Helps to Get the Story!

AE@TL not only brings funding to Journalism and a variety of other academic programs at TL, but also fosters a long view perspective to shape enrichment for all students.

Late Spring, an Academic Excellence (AE) leadership team met with  Teagan Leonhart, TL's new Journalism teacher and her student editors to discuss to the future vision for their new program.  "I am looking forward to taking the wheel as leadership for this program hasn't had a consistent teacher for the past 4 years." said Ms. Leonhart. Leonhart was an editor of her high school newspaper at Drake, and she recently invited her retired teacher to inspire her students about truth in journalism and her experience with student journalists. AE was so impressed with the enthusiasm and commitment of Ms. Leonhart that we funded an opportunity for her to attend the Journalism Education Association Institute which brings journalism teachers from across the country together for a week of adviser-specific networking and networking and training in the following:

• differentiated instruction strategies
• technology in the classroom
• subject-specific professional learning community participation
• curriculum alignment to state and national standards
• essential learner outcomes in a 21st-century classroom
• media literacy, ethical journalism
• best practices in creating formative and summation assessment tools preparation and testing for Certified Journalism Educator and Master Journalism Educator status

 AE@TL also provides a powerful professional network that connects our teachers and students and teachers with experiences beyond our campus to make teaching and learning more dynamic and relevant to college and career readiness.

Student editors were also excited to share with the AE team their hopes for a more developed and expansive approach to news focusing on stories that are relevant to their experience as young high school students. The Voice: Get the Story was published by in June 2018 as a new medium to dive deeper in their research and stories that relate to their perspectives and experiences.  TL Journalism is currently an elective class and produces an online news site called The Voice of Troy. In addition to funding the first edition of The Voice: Get the Story 2018, Academic Excellence offered to support the program with our powerful network already leading to the planning of a future class field trip this Fall to Mother Jones, a leading progressive American magazine that focuses on news, commentary, and investigative reporting on topics including politics, the environment, human rights, and culture.

Ms. Leonhart hopes that her Journalism will develop into a more substantive curriculum  program that not only fosters for our students the power of the written word, but also develops real world skills like digital art, design, and marketing that our student can take with them beyond our campus. Academic Excellence is excited to support such eager young journalists and Ms. Lionhart's new program that strives to deliver relevant objective news stories to our TL Community. AE not only brings funding to Journalism and other academic programs at TL, but also a long view perspective to enrichment and a powerful network to make learning more dynamic to better prepare our students for college and career readiness. We look forward to reading whats in the news this Fall at TL!

GAME: TL's New Academic Program Helping to Bridging the Gap in Gender & Diversity in Computer Science and Tech

Want to show a girl that she can do anything? Give her a role model. You can't be what you can't see- which is why we're working with Nicole Sandavol, Producer, Hangar 13 @2K and Sofy Kabachek, Software Engineer @2K to join our students to share about their career paths and challenges of women working in video game industry.  GAME is a new academic program currently being developed that offers students pathways in computer science, graphic design, and media narrative writing leading to a capstone project of producing a video game as a collaborative team.  TL Innovation Lab's Industry Insights is working with TL and mentors from 2K to bring this important conversation to our students to help bridge the gap in gender and diversity in computer science and tech.  All students welcome to our Industry Insights Guest Speaker with Nicole Sandoval and Sofy Kabachek from 2K during tutorial on Wednesday 1/24 in Room 14. 

GAME is a new academic program currently being developed by Terra Linda High School, San Rafael City Schools, and Academic Excellence's TL Innovation Lab with mentorship from industry leaders at 2K. Our exciting new program will offer TL students pathways in computer science, graphic design, and media narrative writing leading to a capstone project of producing a video game as a collaborative team. Classes will be offered this fall so please discuss with your student's counselors or for more information Lauren Inman, Assistant Principal at linman@srcs.org or Jo James, TL Innovation Lab and Academic Excellence at josiejamesster@googlemail.com.

We Are So Excited about the Launch of TL Video Game Development Studio!

Fantastic Enrichment Opportunity for TL Students!

Join the TL Video Game Development Studio with mentors from 2K. It will be an after school commitment from 3 -4:30 pm on Mondays for the entire school year! More details below and important dates:

•  Lunch Informational with Pizza -- 9/12 at 11:30 in the Engineering Tech Computer Lab

• Online Application Deadline-- 9/15 at 3 pm  
  Application Link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2YZGZ86
   
• TL Video Game Dev Team Announcement-- 9/25 at 6 pm via email to selected students
   
• Mandatory Student and Parent Orientation--9/29 at 7 pm in the TL Library
   
• First Team Meeting on Monday, 10/2.

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Let's Make Really Cool Stuff in 2017-18! TL Maker Lab Now Meets After School on Wednesdays from 2:45 -5pm

TL Maker Lab will meet on Wednesdays from 2:45- 5 pm in the Engineering Tech Computer Room.  

This Fall, TL Maker Lab will be meeting as an after school enrichment program instead of at lunch, so our students will have more time to make so really cool stuff! Roger Ruittman, VP of Technology at Dorsal, has generously agreed to again be our Guest Mentor for another year! Also, TL Maker Lab students can meet additionally during lunch on Wednesdays to build community around applied computer science and tech at TL.  Many thanks, to our community partners like Hermes Econometrics whose generous gifts support this program created by TL Innovation Lab! 

We look forward to posting about our e new and exciting projects that our students will make this year! Also, look for us again at the Maker Faire 2018! If you would like more information on how to become a project mentor please contact Maya Bartolf at maya.bartolf@gmail.com.

Welcome Back!

Let's Get Started: Principal's Coffee withAcademic Excellence Parent Forum and OneTL

Friday, September 8, 2017
8 - 9 am in the Library

Join us for coffee with our Principal Katy Dunlap at Academic Excellence's first parent forum.  Learn about Academic Excellence's role in advocating, supporting and developing enrichment programs for all students at TL. Also, Meet Julie Kritzberger, OneTL President, and the OneTL Parent Booster Community.  We look forward to meeting you while enjoying coffee and breakfast treats.

Agenda:

I. Meet and Greet
II Welcome by Principal Katy Dunlap
III. AE & the One TL Community
VI. Q & A with Principal Dunlap and the OneTL Boosters

Academic Excellence is a parent volunteer group that advocates, supports, and develops enrichment programs that make education and the high school experience more dynamic at TL.  Academic Excellence is the parent voice and forum to support and develop enrichment for all students at TL.

We Made it to the Maker Faire in San Mateo!

Congratulations to TL Innovation Lab on their first robotics exhibit at Maker Faire 2017 in San Mateo! Our Maker Lab team showcased their autonomous model at the world famous annual event that leads the Maker Movement. A fantastic team building effort and learning experience for all our students! Our robots also inspired others, especially the young future roboticists and makers. Our Team also got to meet industry professionals and celebrities along with making friends with the maker community! "The BEST thing I did all school year", said TL Freshman, Maker Team 2017! Special thanks to Roger Ruttiman, Guest Mentor for leading the project and to Hermes Econometrics for sponsoring us! Great Effort! Go Robotics! Go Maker Team 2017! Go TL Innovation! Go TL! Go Maker Faire

TL Innovation Lab Goes to the Bay Area Maker Faire May 19 - 21, San Mateo

Congratulations to TL Innovation Lab's Maker Lab Team for their acceptance as exhibitors in the Bay Area Maker Faire 2017, May 19-12! Our Maker Team led by Mr. Ruttiman, TL Innovation Guest Mentor, will exhibit their Self-driving Model Cars along with a 4 Camera Positional Tracking System developed this Spring as a collaborative hands-on learning opportunity for our students in computer science, electronics, engineering, mathematics, physics, graphic design and design thinking.

Over the last 3 months, Roger Ruitmann, Guest Mentor TL Maker Lab introduced  a small but steady group of students to Raspberry Pi, electronics and experimental boards. This Spring, Mr. Ruitmann is teahcing how electronics and software interact in real-time. Self Driving Model Cars will be developed by student teams who will work on a common goal to design, assemble, program, test, optimize a self driving autonomous model car using the RaspberryPi board and the sensors.  Our Maker Project is designed to integrate learning with computer science, mathematics, and digital design. Highlights include:

Programming is done in Java using Pi4J libraries.

Applied Mathemeatics--Having moving objects and calculating the trajectory requires some advanced math and Java programming techniques.

Designing and creating a cool chassis would make a difference. 3D printed parts might make it even more interesting

Mechanical assembly, mounting sensors, motor shields take some metal shop input.

 More info at http://www.tlae.org/tl-maker

Industry Insights: Tech Tales and the Startup Adventures of Aarron Nemoyten, TL Graduate Class 2002

Thursday, March 2, 2017
at Lunch, Room #302
Open to All Students

Meet Aaron Nemoyten a TL grad (Class of 2002) and a long-time video game and computer nerd who landed his first job at age 19 at Toys for Bob--creators of the popular video game, Skylander. Nemoyten is currently an independent app developer.

Learn about his academic path and the twists and turns of his industry career experience that led him to work for tech startups and land new roles at some of the top video game developers including: KickNation (Superhero City), Capital Games (Heroes of Dragon Age), Electronic Arts (Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes).

Ask questions from a knowledgeable industry mentor, and fellow Trojan, who will try offer insight into what you would like to know to launch your own path or startup in tech and video game development.

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Industry Insights is sponsored by TL Innovation Lab and the TLTalks, a special Speaker series developed by Academic Excellence at TL. More Info at http://www.tlae.org