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Dear Tech Students and Parents,

In light of recent developments in our world and the focus on remote learning, I wonder if you'd be interested in considering the following topic.

The SITHS Career Development Center “CDC” is reintroducing Backpacks to Briefcases Virtually.

MAKING THE RIGHT COLLEGE AND CAREER CHOICE

This is something that every Staten Island Tech student (and their parents) is interested in.

Staten Island Tech has had a program called Backpacks to Briefcases (B2B) for a few years now. In B2B, we invite people from various careers to come to our school and share their career paths with us. In doing this, we are able to make our career-minded (and who isn't?) students more informed about the various college and career choices that lie ahead.  Who would disagree that the best kind of choices are informed ones?

Now that we are currently switching over to remote learning, there's no reason why our students have to miss out on becoming more informed about potential college and career choices.

In the coming weeks ahead, I will be interviewing various people who have interesting careers and career paths.  Mr. Levine will post these B2Bs for you to view while in the comfort of your own home.

Mr. Levine is looking forward to hearing from you!!

Barry Levine

Staten Island Tech

B2B Coordinator

BLevine8@schools.nyc.gov

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REMOTE INTERVIEWS WITH PEOPLE IN VARIOUS CAREERS

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REMOTE INTERVIEWS WITH PEOPLE IN VARIOUS CAREERS

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Subject / Course:BACKPACKS TO BRIEFCASES (B2B)/CTE
Teachers Names: Levine

Experience Description: In order to make informed decisions with your life, it is imperative that you gather the information in many ways. B2B offers you an opportunity for an inside look into journeys that people have made on their way to successful careers. Watch for upcoming interviews about engineering, the acting profession, small business creation and ownership, yoga, rap artist and a music company executive.
B2B REMOTE NUMBER ONE: MR. LEVINE INTERVIEWS AN ENGINEER!

Our first B2B introduces us to Robyn Decker, a woman engineer, who used her training to move on to bigger and better things. B2B REMOTE NUMBER TWO: MR. LEVINE INTERVIEWS A FAMOUS ACTOR!

The second B2B, examines choosing acting as a career. Kelly Aucoin, a working actor, currently portraying Dollar Bill Stern on Showtime’s $BILLIONS sits down for a probing and enjoyable interview with Mr. Levine The third B2B, presents SI Tech alum, Glyn Caddell who earned a degree in engineering and currently owns and operates Caddell Prep in Staten Island.  This B2B will be uploaded on Tuesday or Wednesday!

ALL B2B’S CAN BE VIEWED IN THE CDC GOOGLE CLASSROOM: CODE q653myt

Link: Mr Levine interviews Robyn Decker, engineer: https://youtu.be/A77zXtPTAOo

Mr Levine Interviews Kelly Aucoin

Mr. Levine interviews, Glynn Caddell

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Kelly and Taya!!! Great job. You were both great Thanks so much for committing to this for both days. We have an opporunity to influence the people who will be making the decision ultimately.

My honest feeling is that whatever they come up with, moving forward, the academic policy has to be "Pandemic Proof" meaning if we are entering a time when life and education and everything as we know it can intermittently be disrupted

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Subject / Course: Makerspace
Teachers Names: Dazzo

Experience Description: Missing Makerspace? Here are some great videos on projects you could do at home.  You may have a lot of these materials already, or you can order them online. Don’t forget - Makerspace safety rules apply at home too!
Links: Home DIY “Fix-it” Solutions and small household item projects (repair holes in a wall, create candle holders, photo holders, neaten wires, and much more): https://youtu.be/9R-Ll6odFw8
Build your own wooden birdhouse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0werPvrrPI&t=55s
Build your own planter box: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QW3vRg8c2s&t=13s
Build your own wooden shoe rack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ0cYPFgauQ
Make a popsicle stick skyscraper: https://www.notimeforflashcards.com/2017/08/skyscraper-day-building-activity.html   Create a rubber-band powered car: https://www.instructables.com/id/Rubber-Band-Powered-Cardboard-Car/
Build a PVC shoe rack: https://macgyverisms.wonderhowto.com/how-to/build-low-cost-shoe-rack-using-pvc-pipes-0141340/

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Subject / Course: AutoCAD
Teachers Names: Howley

Experience Description: I know we were all looking forward to the introduction of Revit! Take some time to watch some of these introductory videos.  This YouTube tutorial has hours of videos that will introduce you to the fundamentals of Revit, and will better prepare us to work with the new software!

Link: https://youtu.be/qDiN6V-ksgQ

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Subject / Course: AutoCAD/ Advanced AutoCAD
Teachers Names: Howley

Experience Description: Engineering encompasses a broad range of disciplines from design to manufacturing. This free course, Introducing engineering, introduces a number of key themes that explore how engineering is undertaken in our modern world. These themes include engineering design, rules that govern engineers, manufacturing for products and electricity generation using solar energy.

Link: https://www.open.edu/openlearn/science-maths-technology/introducing-engineering/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab

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Subject / Course: AutoCAD/ Advanced CAD
Teachers Names: Howley

Experience Description: This free course, An introduction to design engineering, looks at the way in which engineers use ideas and approaches from the discipline of design thinking to inform their work. The complexity that people bring to design problems is introduced, along with some basic methods of dealing with such complexity.

Link: https://www.open.edu/openlearn/science-maths-technology/engineering-technology/introduction-design-engineering/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab

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Public Health Approaches to Infectious Disease

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Public Health Approaches to Infectious Disease

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Subject / Course: AutoCAD/ Advanced CAD
Teachers Names: Howley

Experience Description: In light of current events, this free course, Public health approaches to infectious disease, reviews the current global burden of infectious disease, the public health strategies that are reducing the impact of some major infections and the challenges facing national and international organisations in preventing illness and death caused by bacteria, viruses and parasites.

Link: https://www.open.edu/openlearn/science-maths-technology/science/public-health-approaches-infectious-disease/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab

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Subject / Course: AutoCAD/ Advanced CAD
Teachers Names: Howley

Experience Description: This free course, Toys and engineering materials, introduces engineering in context. It explores the variation in materials and composite materials, and provides real-life examples of material use in the manufacture of toys, and how the development of materials over time has influenced design.

Link: https://www.open.edu/openlearn/science-maths-technology/toys-and-engineering-materials/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab

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Subject / Course: Intro / Advanced AV Engineering
Teachers Names: Van Buren

Experience Description: “The first step to become a great movie maker is to be a great movie watcher.” – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and SciencesYou probably have a list of movies you’ve been meaning to get around to.  Or maybe there are movies you’ve always heard of but have never made the time for.   Perhaps you are aware of movies being considered “classics” but you’ve always been reluctant to devote the time, especially if there’s something about the movie that you aren’t used to – such as an old movie in black and white, or a movie in a language you don’t speak, requiring the reading of subtitles. Now’s the time to expand your horizons beyond Star Wars and Marvel (no disrespect!).  Challenge yourself to watch one of the “Great Films” you’ve never seen.  Below are a number of links to resources for choosing and finding movies to watch.

Link: Already have a movie in mind?  This website will help you find where it’s available to stream/rent/buy:

https://www.justwatch.com/ Interested in movie night on a budget?  This article describes the best free streaming sources on the Internet:

https://www.cnet.com/how-to/netflix-alternatives-10-best-free-movie-streaming-services/

Looking for inspiration?  The American Film Institute has recently launched the AFI Film Club.  Each day, they post a video of an actor/director/filmmaker recommending a movie, along with some fun background info on the movie.

https://www.afi.com/movieclub/

AFI has also released numerous lists of the “Best” American movies.  Here is the current top 100:

https://www.afi.com/afis-100-years-100-movies-10th-anniversary-edition/

Here is the British Film Institute’s list, if you’d like to look beyond Hollywood:

https://www.bfi.org.uk/greatest-films-all-time

Looking for an exceptionally written movie?  The Writer’s Guild has a list of the best 101 Screenplays:

https://www.wga.org/writers-room/101-best-lists/101-greatest-screenplays/list

Prefer focusing on the images?  The American Society of Cinematographers created a list of the 100 best-shot films of the 20th century:

https://theasc.com/news/asc-unveils-list-of-100-milestone-films-in-cinematography-of-the-20th-century

Finally, are you up to date on all of your classic films, but want to know more about how movies are made?  Here’s a list of documentaries about filmmaking:

https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/documentaries-movie-geeks-films/

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Subject / Course: STEM and CAD
Teachers Names: Henriques

Experience Description:  This quick 1-minute slideshow and subsequent materials list shows a sample CAD design for a workbench being realized as a working prototype.

Slideshow Link: https://youtu.be/qvSoOdMzpNM
Materials List:  https://drive.google.com/open?id=12SOm30FYH4nUgj2OaG-nS6C2bmtMEigf

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Subject / Course: Computer Aided Design (CAD)
Teachers Names: Henriques

Experience Description: This 3D modeling tutorial will teach you how to use Autodesk Inventor like a champ!  This tutorial is also a great review that will introduce some professional certification applications to current users.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PWqsRynm5I&feature=youtu.be&t=1

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Subject / Course: STEM
Teachers Names: Henriques

Experience Description: In a turning vehicle, one wheel must move faster than the other, as it is covering more distance.  This video shows how a GEAR DIFFERENTIAL allows an engine’s SINGLE drive shaft to power TWO opposing wheels at different speeds!

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOgoejxzF8c

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Subject / Course: STEM
Teachers Names: Henriques

Experience Description: Gears are just an application of a common simple machine:  The LEVER.  How can a lever be used for POWER TRANSMISSION in a vehicle?  This video will guide you through “how a transmission works” in an easy-to-understand, simple, 1930’s motorcar.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOLtS4VUcvQ

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Subject / Course: Electronics
Teachers Names: Wantowski

Experience Description: Master the analysis and design of electronic systems with CircuitLab's free, interactive, online electronics circuits simulation software. There is a  textbook with theory and samples available for free. Great resource for future engineers.

Link: https://www.circuitlab.com/

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How Electricity is Made in Brookfield Power Plant.

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How Electricity is Made in Brookfield Power Plant.

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Subject / Course: Electronics
Teachers Names: Wantowski

Experience Description: Interesting virtual tour through all steps of creating the electric power in one of the Canada hydroelectric plants.

Link: https://www.virtually-anywhere.com/portfolio/brookfield-power-plant-virtual-tour/

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Subject / Course: AP Computer Science Principles
Teachers Name: Frusci

Experience Description: Create an artificial neural network called Long Short Term Memory to predict the future price of stock using Python.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIUxPv5PJOY

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Subject / Course: Electronics/Cybersecurity - Advanced
Teachers Name: Frusci

Experience Description: Learn to build an advanced keylogger in Python. Building this  advanced keylogger in Python will allow you to deploy this script on your entire network that will record the keystrokes of terminals on the network.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25um032xgrw

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Subject / Course: Electronics/Cybersecurity - Beginner to Intermediate
Teachers Name: Frusci

Experience Description: After going through the free Python course through Microsoft (first link to all 44 videos, lessons and exercises), please complete the Python exercises (second link)

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFCNu1-Xdsw https://www.w3schools.com/python/python_exercises.asp

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Subject / Course: Web Development/Graphic Design
Teachers Name: Whalen

Experience Description: Using Photoshop, Illustrator and Adobe XD help design and contribute to Mr. Whalen’s AP CSP Movie Project for next year. (Adobe accounts pending).Check the classroom for further description

Link: H7atxgc (Google Classroom Code)

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Authentication and Databases with Google Firebase

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Authentication and Databases with Google Firebase

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Subject / Course: Web Development/ Computer Science (Advanced)
Teachers Name: Whalen

Experience Description: Learn to build a “Game Guide” Site with full Authentication, user accounts and database using Google’s Firebase. Firebase can be used for web development as well as ios and Android.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4cUxeGkcC9jUPIes_B8vRjn1_GaplOPQ

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Simple to Advanced Layouts in Web Development Course

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Simple to Advanced Layouts in Web Development Course

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Subject / Course: Web Development (Beginner to intermediate)
Teachers Name: Whalen

Experience Description: Learn to go from simple to complex layouts for your website using CSS Grid. Some level of HTML/CSS is encouraged to have. Mozilla funded course in industry standard techniques.

Link: https://cssgrid.io/

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Build Short Simple Projects with JavaScript

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Build Short Simple Projects with JavaScript

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Subject / Course: Computer Science/Web Development (Beginner)
Teachers Name: Whalen

Experience Description: 30 videos, 30 small projects that teach you fundamentals and advanced concepts. Great for students with ANY level of experience with JS. Course is from world renowned developer and teacher

Link: https://javascript30.com/

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Subject / Course: Career Development Center
Teachers Names: Manzo, Reichel, Livshits

Experience Description: Building an Online Profile for your Professional Development:  Trovvit is a great way for you to build a business portfolio. It is similar to LinkedIn, but for high school students. Trovvit is a convenient way for you to keep track of your activities, classes, employment and volunteer experience.   Here are some video links that explain how it works.  Quick video overview of Profile PageQuick video of Live Portfolio

Link: Go to: https://www.trovvit.com/   Join class JEDI, join code: Xrpnr7