When learning a craft, finding the most knowledgeable people to provide guidance is crucial. Mr. Houston is a local luthier, or stringed instrument maker, who makes guitars and basses for people around the world. He eagerly joined the Tech Wolves in the quest to learn all we can about sound and frequencies through his chosen art. In this video, he introduces everyone to the instrument, the craft, and his philosophies on design and building.
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History is the past that led us to here. The telling of what happened depends on who one listens to and why. If one is most true to a study of history, they seek out to learn as much of the truth as they can, not just the events and dates but the stories of the people involved. Fort Pillow State Park is located on the western edge of Tennessee, about 45 miles north of Memphis. Fort Pillow was important militarily because it commanded the Mississippi River. The river has…
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Ratatouille totally makes for a more fun time talking about these basic identifiers of sets. Intersections and Unions trip most everyone up somewhere along the line. https://www.mathsisfun.com/sets/venn-diagrams.html is a great set of notes to go along with the video. The three basic logic gates in this game are And, Or, and Not. For And to be true, both things must be. For Or to be True, only one must. Not asks for the other. Thanks to msarica for the original project Logic Gates Game. Binary is the way computers count because switches are…
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We discuss a fun math problem and look at circles. There is some other stuff in there. For those working on circles and circumferences, radius, and pi type things, this little problem is quite an excellent study to the primary things one needs to know, so they say. Needless to say, there is more to that path of maths at algebrawesome.
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We had the chance to sit down with Memphis City Councilman, Dr. Jeff Warren, and listen to him talk about what people should be doing in regards to health and this virus.
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Nathanial Arrington Crawford killed himself a few weeks back. Most of y’all have no idea who he was or is, really. I know I don’t. I was talking with a dear friend and fellow teacher about it and neither of us was shocked by the happening. Saddened, hurt, or otherwise unsure of what to do but not shocked. We knew him as he was breaking out of the blocks with forward the only way and watched from a too close distance as humanity undid itself on him. Nate was an…
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