FBI

Today Mitch visits the FBI to investigate how investigators use technology to solve crimes.

“Citizen of a Digital Culture – Safety, Privacy, & Security
9. Identify common methods of securing data.
Ex: Permissions, encryption, vault, locked closet. Legal and Ethical Behavior
10. Explain social engineering, including countermeasures, and its impact on a digital society.
Examples: Phishing, hoaxes, impersonation, baiting, spoofing.”

Gene Haas Center for Advanced Manufacturing

Today Mitch visits one of the many Gene Haas training centers and discovers that in many industries that create the many items we encounter everyday, from car parts to Grandpa’s new hip, was once programmed and tooled by a machinist using advanced technology.

“Grade 6 Programming and Development
7. Describe how automation works to increase efficiency. Grade 7 Abstraction
1. Create a function to simplify a task. Grade 8 Programming and Development
5. Discuss the efficiency of an algorithm or technology used to solve complex problems.
6. Describe how algorithmic processes and automation increase efficiency. Human/Computer Partnerships
27. Analyze assistive technologies and how they improve the quality of life for users.”

Honda Alabama

Today Peyton visits the Honda Alabama plant to find out more about how cars are built using the expertise of humans and strength and safety of robots.

Citizen of a Digital Culture – 15. Identify emerging technologies in computing.

United Launch Alliance

What do Skins, Rings, domes,and payloads have in common. Today Mitch visits ULA to talk to engineers about building and launching rockets.

“Grade 6 Earth’s Place in the Universe 2. Construct models and use simulations (e.g., diagrams of the relationship between Earth and manmade satellites, rocket launch, International Space Station, elliptical orbits, black holes, life cycles of stars, orbital periods of objects within the solar system, astronomical units and light years) to explain the role of gravity in affecting the motions of celestial bodies (e.g., planets, moons, comets, asteroids, meteors) within galaxies and the solar system.”

BASF

How does a catalyst help reduce greenhouse gases released from our cars and other heavy machinery? Join Mitch at BASF to learn more about what we’re doing to reduce our environmental footprint.

“Objective SCI.6.16.4: Describe causes and effects of the human impact on the environment, (e.g. Horizon Oil Spill on the Gulf of Mexico).
Objective SCI.6.16.5: Identify ways humans impact the environment. Objective SCI.8.3.3: Describe how the production and use of synthetic materials impact the environment. “

TVA

Today Mitch visits the TVA Colbert Plant to learn how a natural gas plant is managed and how electricity is generated from natural gas.

“Objective PS.6.3: Identify types of non-nuclear generation. Objective SCI.8.7.1: Define thermal energy, concentration, endothermic, and exothermic
reaction.
Objective SCI.8.7.2: Determine the change in temperature during a chemical reaction.”