The Case for Useless Robots
Lego Mindstorms Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Mindstorms
Lego Mindstorms Projects
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-jaw-dropping-lego-mindstorms-projects/
Article about 2019 VEX Worlds
https://www.kitv.com/story/39780374/top-school-robotics-teams-head-to-2019-vex-worlds
SIMONE GIERTZ’S LATEST INVENTION: A ROBOT THAT SPILLS SOUP ALL OVER HER
https://nerdist.com/simone-giertz-soup-serving-robot/
Seven absurd inventions set to change the world forever
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/inventor-simone-giertz-designer/index.html
Gas Stations in Space
Robotic Refueling Mission NASA facts and many sets of press releases
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=1787
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/spx16-research
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/rrm3
Press Conference Kennedy Space Flight Center December 4, 2018 Jill McGuire (Broadcast on NASA TV)
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/issrdc_2013-07-17-1600_mcguire2013.pdf
Blurry Circles
History of SketchUp
https://mastersketchup.com/history-of-sketchup/
SketchUp for Kids
http://learningfromcities.blogspot.com/2014/01/sketchup-for-kids.html
Teaching 3D with ModelMetricks
http://www.3dvinci.net/forteachersmodelmetricks.htm
How to Create Your First 3D Model in SketchUp: A Beginner-Friendly Introduction
https://i.materialise.com/blog/en/first-3d-model-in-sketchup-tutorial/
Finding, making, and using incredible SketchUp textures
https://blog.sketchup.com/article/finding-making-and-using-incredible-sketchup-textures
File Systems
Comparison of Linux file systems along with a good explanation of journaling
https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/33552/htg-explains-which-linux-file-system-should-you-choose/
An old Ars Technica piece on the history of file systems with fantastic history sections
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2008/03/past-present-future-file-systems/
An article about why USB sticks use FAT32
Chicago USO Event
Online Coding Camps in Minecraft
https://blog.connectedcamps.com/online-coding-camp-in-minecraft/
Get Started with a Raspberry Pi
https://www.imore.com/how-get-started-using-raspberry-pi
Minecraft Story Mode
Minecraft Story Mode
https://telltale.com/series/minecraft-story-mode/
Adventure Maps
http://www.minecraftmaps.com/adventure-maps
How To Install a Minecraft Map
http://www.minecraftmaps.com/info/how-to-install-a-minecraft-map
C Programming Language
A tutorial on C by the author of a famous online book about network programming
https://beej.us/guide/bgc/html/single/bgc.html
A decent tutorial just on pointers
http://pw1.netcom.com/~tjensen/ptr/pointers.htm
Telling Interactive Stories in Scratch
Our story so far
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/256976067/
How to make stories in Scratch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJO-oI8dBTs
How to use Scratch for digital storytelling
https://www.commonsense.org/education/blog/how-to-use-scratch-for-digital-storytelling
For teachers
http://www.literacyfromscratch.org.uk/teaching/creating.htm
Make your own virtual pet in Scratch
https://wecancodeit.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Make-Your-Own-Virtual-Pet-in-Scratch-r1.pdf
Scratch resources for teachers
https://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/scratch-programming-classroom-activity-ideas.shtml
Cardboard Circuits
WikiHow: Making a Simple Electrical Circuit
https://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Simple-Electrical-Circuit
Electrical Circuit Projects for Elementary Students
https://learning-center.homesciencetools.com/article/circuit-science-projects-for-elementary/
https://www.shareitscience.com/2017/09/DIY-paper-circuit-board-games-STEM.html
An Electrical Circuit Quiz Board
https://www.teachingtreasures.com.au/K-10Projects/quizboard/quizboard.htm
How do Multiplayer Games Really Work?
About Game Servers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_server
Client-Server Networks vs Peer-to-Peer Networks
What Gamers Need To Know About Network Synchronization In Games
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/gamers-network-synchronization-games/
Paper Clips Run Amok
Paperclip Maximizer
https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer
AI and the Paperclip Problem
https://voxeu.org/article/ai-and-paperclip-problem
The Way the World Ends: Not a Bang But a Paperclip
https://www.wired.com/story/the-way-the-world-ends-not-with-a-bang-but-a-paperclip/
FizzBuzz
About the modulus operator
A detailed article about FizzBuzz
https://www.tomdalling.com/blog/software-design/fizzbuzz-in-too-much-detail/
Twenty Ways to Fizz Buzz
https://ditam.github.io/posts/fizzbuzz/
A complex mathematical solution to FizzBuzz
https://read.klipse.tech/the-most-elegant-implementation-of-fizzbuzz/
TIC-80 Maps and Music
Bruno’s platformer tutorial
https://medium.com/@btco_code/writing-a-platformer-for-the-tic-80-virtual-console-6fa737abe476
A neat, free, tracker for making chiptunes
Tutorial to make a simple platformer on the TIC-80
https://www.infinitelimit.net/article/simple-platformer-tic-80
Cell Towers
The First Cellular Phone
https://www.aarp.org/politics-society/history/info-2018/first-cell-phone-call.html
Invasive Species (disguised towers)
https://www.wired.com/2013/03/dillon-marsh-invasive-species/
How Cell Towers Work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct0wFde9XcI
How Cell Towers Work
https://wonderopolis.org/wonder/how-do-cell-towers-work
How Text Messages are Sent
https://lifehacker.com/this-video-explains-how-your-texts-are-sent-from-one-ph-1784867035
The Cell Phone Tower Debate
https://www.wired.com/2005/08/cell-phone-tower-debate-grows/
Triangle Generator
Introduction to Python
https://www.w3schools.com/python/python_intro.asp
https://kidscodecs.com/resources/programming/python/
Python for Kids
https://kidscodecs.com/python-for-kids/
About Loops
https://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/python_while_loop.htm
https://www.pythonforbeginners.com/control-flow-2/python-for-and-while-loops
More Python activities
https://kidscodecs.com/create-turtles-python/
https://kidscodecs.com/python-animation-bird-wave/
Requests and Responses
How to Inspect Web Page Elements
https://www.lifewire.com/get-inspect-element-tool-for-browser-756549
What is a Server?
https://www.lifewire.com/servers-in-computer-networking-817380
https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/server
HTTP Responses and Requests
https://wiki.kidzsearch.com/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol
Browser caches
https://askleo.com/whats_a_browser_cache_how_do_i_clear_it_and_why_would_i_want_to/
Web browser history
https://kidscodecs.com/web-browser-history/
Chinese New Year Lantern
Lanterns Go High Tech
History
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lantern_Festival
Video (in Mandarin Chinese)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T29HMQ428A
Festivities
https://www.ourawesomeplanet.com/awesome/2018/03/taiwan-lantern-festival.html
Traditions
DIY Paper and Wire Lantern (Instructables)
https://www.instructables.com/id/Paper-and-Wire-Lantern/
Atlas Institute Science and Art Education
https://www.colorado.edu/atlas/2017/08/10/lighting-way-science-and-art-education
Luminous Science
https://www.playfulcomputation.group/luminous-science.html
Laboratory for Playful Computation
https://www.playfulcomputation.group/
NeoPixel LEDs (individually addressable)
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B018XAELE4/ref=od_aui_detailpages00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
micro:bit
micro:bit coding environment
Lantern Light Festival
https://lanternlightfestival.com/
Man in the Middle Attacks
The Difference between HTTP and HTTPS
https://www.globalsign.com/en/blog/the-difference-between-http-and-https/
Should I Buy from This Site? How to Know if a Website is Secure
https://www.digicert.com/blog/buy-site-know-website-secure/
What is an SSL certificate?
https://us.norton.com/internetsecurity-how-to-ssl-certificates-what-consumers-need-to-know.html