Just gave a presentation to a 4th grade advanced math class impromptu!
I am in the field collecting photo ID QC points for a City mapping project here in Oregon, there is a grade school across the street and the teacher came out and said the class was just dying to know what I was doing, so instant field trip and a 10 minute class on what I was doing!
SHG
Nice work Shelby!:good:
I once did that for a college professor at UNC-Asheville. Apparently her archeology department had just bought a total station. No one knew how to use it yet and she was all curious about the thing actually works. My PC saw I was being distracted and came over to see what the "deal" was. We ended up showing her with real time data. She was blown away. After she went on her way Tony says to me "you loved every minute of that didn't you?". Of course I did!!
A couple of other times I've had elderly ladies ask to look through the scope. I'm not a tall guy but they were much too short for my setup at around 5'2".
A few times I've had people that could look through the scope on my setups. They are always blown away.
I noticed a guy and his young son watching me work with the robot. They put their bikes and came across the street. The dad asked if the boy could look through the scope. I held the kid up and he went to look through. He got his eye right up to the eyepiece. "I can't see anything" he said. He was having trouble looking through the center of the scope. I said "you have to look through like a camera". He then moved his eye away from the scope as if he were looking at the lcd screen of a digital camera. I laughed.
I instantly felt like a dinosaur, but I laughed.
that story sounds mighty close to the circumstances that got me wanting to start surveying. i was maybe seven years old, walking out of my mother's bank. she let me stick around for a couple minutes to watch a survey crew do a boundary survey. one of the surveyors picked me up high enough for a peek through the scope. they later gave me a plumb bob and let me pull tape to a marker. i got a look at a plat and some field notes, too.
i will not forget that day
these days i don't need a boost to see through the scope, as i seemed to have topped out at six four.
so what sort of math was the class studying?
i knew trig before i took it in school thanks to slave labor, er I mean family business...
Not sure, BUT they indicated they knew X and Y and coordinates, lat-long, etc.
SHG
Very Very Cool.