Day 1: Arrival

Everybody is here! Elaine and I spent most of the day at Adams Hall, greeting students. We had arrivals all through the day, with very few hiccups (some problems with keys to dorm rooms). And it was hot, hot hot...fortunately the summer school office has a huge supply of fans. I wonder how many of them have been left by students from previous years? Elaine and I also finally got keys to our own classroom...and discovered that all the desks are the one-piece units that combine chair and desk, which would make it tough to do some of the projects we'll be doing that require large work surfaces. Plus the desks have sloped tops, which won't work with Keva planks. And there's no wall space to work with. Uh-oh. Fortunately, Mike Barker at the Library came through for us and for the next two weeks we'll be in the Makerspace, which is really the best classroom at Phillips Academy. Tomorrow morning at 9:00 "Seeing in Patterns, Thinking in Code" officially takes off.