Part-time position (5-15 hrs\/wk) available at The Dalton School (an\u00a0independent Manhattan K-12 school), to mentor 7th and 8th graders in its\u00a0after school Engineering & Design Workshop during the 2013\/2014 academic\u00a0school year. The program allows students an opportunity to pursue innovative\u00a0independent projects using engineering and design. It is anticipated that\u00a0many of the projects will have a robotics, mechatronics or physical computing\u00a0component. For instance, one project involves designing a soccer-playing robot\u00a0to compete in the 2014 US Robocup Junior competition.<\/p>\n
The mentor will work with a team of three full-time Dalton teachers to help\u00a0guide and teach approximately 24 students. The mentor will be expected to\u00a0assist the faculty in all aspects of teaching, including helping the students\u00a0design possible solutions, understand and implement new technologies, and\u00a0troubleshoot problems. The mentor should also be willing to run workshops for\u00a0Dalton teachers on topics relevant to the Workshop in order to increase the\u00a0overall knowledge base of the faculty.<\/p>\n
EDUCATION<\/p>\n
Graduate degree (or candidate) in engineering, computer science or related\u00a0field of study preferred.<\/p>\n
EXPERTISE<\/p>\n
Expertise in robotics, mechatronic systems or physical computing. The school is\u00a0looking for a mentor who has significant experience working with these types of\u00a0systems, including knowledge of a wide range of components (e.g., controllers,\u00a0motors, sensors) and their use. Expertise could have been acquired as an area\u00a0of graduate study or as an enthusiastic hobbyist. Experience with Arduino, the\u00a0students\u2019 development platform of choice, would be beneficial.<\/p>\n
Please direct inquiries to Chad Gallant (dalton@gallant.cc<\/strong>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Part-time position (5-15 hrs\/wk) available at The Dalton School (an\u00a0independent Manhattan K-12 school), to mentor 7th and 8th graders in its\u00a0after school Engineering & Design…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-job","category-teaching","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}