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News Release-February
2008
Students learn to build
electronics while working on Community Service Project
 Students
from teacher Al Soenke’s ROP Electronics Technology classes at
Dos Pueblos High School have been busy working on a Service-learning
project for United Way of Santa Barbara.
Service
learning is a way the students learn while performing community service
projects. These students are in their second year of building and
testing an electronic game for United Way that works a lot like the
Television game show Jeopardy.
With
these “game controllers” a teacher can give the answer to a question
while playing with up to 8 students at a time. If a student thinks they
know the “Question” they push a button on the game box each student
holds. The purpose of the control box is to decide which student gets
to ask the “question” first.
United Way of Santa
Barbara County, under direction of Campaign Executive Courtney Jue and
Volunteer Bob Uradnicek, has provided the materials. Students Haroon
Azizy, Alex Star, Julian Lord, Nicholas Conti,
Alexander Wolff, Joshua Granada, Anthony Maddalon,
Raymond Diec, and Michael Ringwald have started this
year’s activity, providing the manpower with training provided by
teacher Al Soenke. A new class this spring adds students Santos
Malvaez, Charlie Blancarte-Raley, Johhny Fierro,
Keanu Lawrence, Luis Mendoza, Jose Reyes, Nels
Hernandez, Elijah Wright and Alexander Lao to the
team.
 So
far this year, students have been busy building and assembling the next
batch of 25 more game sets in the project. The game sets will be
complete and ready to turn over to United Way for distribution among
Santa Barbara area schools. The word is out that the games are very
popular with the students and their teachers. While enough are being
built to make sets available for all the classrooms, they will be used
on a checkout system at each campus.
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