To my surprise and dismay I was gifted with a room about half again as large as the classroom I was using. It is a great space but I had already spent time getting the previous room ready.

It is half of a double wide trailer setup for use as overflow classrooms in the 80's and 90's.

It has tile floors (good for electronics) and running water (good for etching). There are several banks of kitchen like cabinets. The top units have been overloaded and are starting...

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I love pizza but there is too much fat and questionable ingredients in purchased pizzas.

This pizza uses a thin (not thick) baking powder crust. I use a bread machine to mix the dough in about 5 minutes.

For a 16" pizza crust add 3 cup of flour then 1 TBS baking powder in the bread machine.

Start the machine on the dough cycle and allow the baking...

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The first year I started out teaching C++ with 8 or 10 kids. After 2 weeks I was down to 3. The kids wanted an easy A and left when they found out it was work. One of the 3 left at the end of 9 weeks.

Second semester I switched to embedded systems. After a few weeks I asked one of the two remaining students to leave. He was not doing the work. I had a single student most of the 2nd semester who graduated and enrolled in a university CS program.

This past year...

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These are a few pictures taken during the past year. It shows my classroom from early in the year and all 3 students. The girl is my pre-teen mentor student. This lady is as sharp as a tack can solder with the best of us.

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