I came in early this morning to help out with the Early Engineering Program in which Anat was leading a session that we helped shape and create. Remember forever ago when I wrote up a simple lesson on battery interrupters? Well, that was for this program. There were about eight high schoolers in our session, and we just went over the basics of electricity and circuits with them today, with the intention to go over battery interrupters and more about circuit building tomorrow. Unfortunately, I won't be able to help out tomorrow again because we have a presentation at the DSSG studio at the same time, and I just need more time to be working on my main project. There was a great range in the levels of knowledge from the kids in the session, and that made it a little difficult to cater to everyone. However, I think they really enjoyed working with the circuit simulators on the computer and I think that all of them learned at least something more about electricity and circuits.
Afterwards, since we were already together Anat and I decided to go out for our end of the program lunch today. We went to the Washington Club on campus and it was really nice. They have a spectacular view from their dining area. I was glad I got to talk to Anat one more time just about random things before I finished up for the summer. It's sad that she won't be here next week for my last week of work, but that's alright because I'm sure I'll be plenty busy anyways trying to finish stuff up.
In the afternoon I was working on the VBA macro for making projections. This was the project I started with at the beginning of the summer before the DSSG program officially began, and while I did finish making the projections at the time, I never actually packaged up the VBA code into a macro that the King County Metro folks could easily just run to create more projections later based on different data. There were only a few steps I did manually when making the projections, like copy and pasting from Access db to Excel, and making the graphs, but somehow these are being very difficult to program into the macro. I need to get it done by Friday though, because Anat wants me to give her the code and make sure she can run it too and it will still work. Deadlines here we come!
Afterwards, since we were already together Anat and I decided to go out for our end of the program lunch today. We went to the Washington Club on campus and it was really nice. They have a spectacular view from their dining area. I was glad I got to talk to Anat one more time just about random things before I finished up for the summer. It's sad that she won't be here next week for my last week of work, but that's alright because I'm sure I'll be plenty busy anyways trying to finish stuff up.
In the afternoon I was working on the VBA macro for making projections. This was the project I started with at the beginning of the summer before the DSSG program officially began, and while I did finish making the projections at the time, I never actually packaged up the VBA code into a macro that the King County Metro folks could easily just run to create more projections later based on different data. There were only a few steps I did manually when making the projections, like copy and pasting from Access db to Excel, and making the graphs, but somehow these are being very difficult to program into the macro. I need to get it done by Friday though, because Anat wants me to give her the code and make sure she can run it too and it will still work. Deadlines here we come!