Gary Garber Teaches Physics at Boston University Academy.
He is the Coach of the Boston University FIRST Robotics Team.
July 24, 2015 at 11:38 pm
In BUTODAY there is a nice new article about the new College of Engineering specialization in Robotics. BU does a lot of work with drones and quadcopters. CAD Workshop: This coming Monday at 7PM at 15 Saint Mary’s Street. Please sign up in advance on the doodle: http://doodle.com/7c6qu29rt45mh34c Tech Savvy Success: We gave a nice […]
July 19, 2015 at 12:19 am
U Design: We just finished a great two weeks helping out with College of Engineering U-Design Camp. Divya, Neil, Nimish, Max, Buzy, and Simon were a great help as assistant teachers! Many thanks to Jordan and Lenny for giving a great tour and a demo with our Scorpion. Our new head of school, Ari […]
July 14, 2015 at 11:30 pm
We had a great first day in U-Design’s Flight School. We began the day by having every student making a paper airplanes. Although this might sound simple, the challenge is to see whose plane can stay aloft the longest time or the longest distance. The hope being that by the end of the week, as […]
I have had LEGO Mindstorms on my mind a lot. I spent a couple hours on my front porch this evening talking to Lester, the coach for We Are Robo, the #3 FLL team in the USA and the #10 team in the world! You really should watch this video of the We Are Robo […]
Coach’s Blog, July 3 A big welcome to our new VISTA Americorp member, Abigail Cohen! Many thanks to everyone who helped to move our materials back to the lab from EPIC. We now need to organize the lab so it is usable and presentable for upcoming tours. VEX Update: We had rising sophomores Neil, Nimish, […]
June 25, 2015 at 12:59 pm
Coach’s Blog June 25 Communications: If five days, the BUA Intranet, FIRST Class will go offline, so make sure you have migrated to your BU G-mail account. We now have new google groups for the students and mentors. One for parents coming soon. There is a GoogleCalendar with all robotics events now, and you should […]
Beantown Blitz:Yesterday we performed well at the Beantown Blitz. We were ranked #8 going into alliance selection with our new rookie driver Nimish at the joysticks. We were on the 6th seed alliance with 5122 and 5563. And we won the Excellence in Engineering Award. Our first meeting for VEX will be on Sunday, June […]
June 18th, 2015 Coach’s Blog: Team BBQ: Last Saturday we had the team BBQ at the Nell White’s parents house. Many thanks for hosting us for our end of year celebrations! Beantown Blitz:The big news this week is that we are preparing for our first post-season FIRST Robotics event, the Beantown Blitz. The event is […]
Today I got to visit Gillette stadium and Patriot Place. I was being interviewed as a finalist for the MA STEM teacher of the year. While in the lobby, I noticed the playbill for the first Boston Patriot’s game which was played at Boston University. After the interview, I had to buy some LEGO Minifigures. […]
March 19, 2015 at 10:09 am
This coming weekend is the annual spring meeting of the New England Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers. Whenever I want to buy a tie or some jewelry with an astronomy theme, I need to wait for the National Science Teachers Meeting to come to town. I always visit the booth of Astronomy […]
