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STEM / STEAM: Using Google BARD Artificial Intelligence to Write a Short Story
In 2024, ForCarol.org will “embrace” the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in our college scholarship applications. The requirements for using AI in their submissions are that the students must tell us: 1. What AI apps they used, 2. how they used them (to write, draw, etc) and what prompts they gave to the AI’s to…
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STEM / STEAM: Artificial Intelligence by Adobe Firefly and Google Gemini
Here is a quick intro to a couple of the latest AI (Artificial Intelligence) apps I’ve started to look at in the past few weeks. Why am I looking at AI? I asked Inyoung (2014 scholarship winner) and Yash (2018 scholarship winner) if it might be feasible to embrace AI in the 2024 Carol Phan…
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STEM / STEAM: 2022 Weather Summary for Northern California
Meteorologist Adam Epstein is the morning weather person at Sacramento’s FOX40 news station, KTXL. This morning (yeah, I am a morning person) I saw Adam’s weather summary for 2022 and decided to ask him if I could post the Youtube version here…… He said yes! 2022 sure was a weird weather year here in Northern…
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STEM / STEAM: Artemis Lifts Off for a Spin Around the Moon
This morning, the largest most powerful NASA rocket ever finally lifted off for it’s initial trip around the moon. Go here to read all about the Artemis program. And here. Here is a short clip from the Artemis web site: “Artemis is the first step in the next era of human exploration. Together with commercial and…
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STEM / STEAM: Testing YouTubeTV
UPDATE March 2025: My fifth and final test of YouTube TV is here: https://techymike.com/2025/03/06/youtube-tv-test-5-and-final-decision/ The result is…….drum roll……….YouTube TV is now our TV provider and we have a 500 Mbps Internet connection to Xfinity. I had previously tested YouTubeTV a couple of times…..hit the links below to learn more. The first time (when we still…
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STEM / STEAM: James Webb Space Telescope Pictures and STEM Toolkit
The James Webb Space Telescope has been made fully operational and has sent back SPECTACULAR images from space! In fact, the telescope is seeing as far back in time as we have ever seen. Truly amazing! Below are a few of those pictures. Go to this web site for a lot more information on these…
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STEM / STEAM: Turn Your Old Computer into a Chromebook
Originally posted on TechyMike.com Lets see how well, if at all, Chrome OS Flex works on a very old computer! Lori’s old Toshiba laptop was the greatest thing since the invention of the integrated circuit at the time we purchased it. Now it is a POS. Well, the hardware rocks, but, the Windows software sucks,…
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STEM / STEAM: Sony A8G 4k TV Randomly Losing WiFi Connection
This past month, or two, our Sony A8G TV randomly started losing WiFi connectivity. I think it may be the recent updates, but, I have no way of proving that. If this happens while watching a movie……it SUCKS, as I have to reboot the TV (that is power it off AND disconnect the power cord)…
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STEM / STEAM: Learning WordPress Full Site Editing (FSE)
UPDATE August 25, 2022: All three of my blogs (TechyMike.com, ForCarol.org (this site), and TracyReaderDad.com) have been set-up with Full Site Editing (FSE) and have been working well for the past several months. Feel free to read on, however, for some interesting recent history about learning Full Site Editing (meaning you can now design your…
ForCarol: Drive Safe! Never Forget 