Tuesday, September 28, 2021

So you teach High School kids to build Battlebots. What do you do for an encore?

Teach 'em cryptography.  Coolest. Teacher. Ever. 

For an encore, get some CNC machines and build an Enigma machine.

4 comments:

Old NFO said...

That could be 'interesting'...to put it mildly!

Aesop said...

Riiiiight.

And then some bright young wiseacre hacks the CNC machine.

And the prototype parts he makes are listed as components under the NFA.

Kids realizing that if you're a machinist, machineguns can never be "banned", FTW!

Coolest lesson ever.

Roy said...

Dang. I'm in my sixties and I wouldn't mind joining that class.

Tacitus said...

Odd that CNC machines get mentioned. One of our sponsors makes high end CNC woodworking machines. They hire our smartest kids. A couple of them actually were designing CNC machines while still in high school. No need to hack when you are designing the thing from the floor up.

This is in the category of Scary Smart.

T