We were given a slew of powerpoint presentations to help us with a materials project we were assigned. I guess John did a good job on it back in the day.
Thats too cool. 
Did he go to your school?
No.
Well then my question is how did your instructor get ahold of JVN’s presentation? Also, is Mr. Smith your instructor or JVN’s instructor or a made up instructor?
Also, does your instructor know who JVN is?
Finally, is this for real or is this a hoax?
This was on a powerpoint distributed by the PLTW program. Our instructor gave us all of these powerpoints to help us assemble our projects. I just thought it was funny when Matt went “Whoa!” and I looked over and saw John’s name on the example report.
So, then as I understand it JVN was just a made up name for the example?
Well, as I understand it, John’s school was one of the first to have the “Project Lead the Way” program. So, this is probably one of his presentations. The date makes sense too. John would have been a High School Junior in May of 2000.
Until John chimes in here i will post some information pertaining to here. Project Lead The Way is based out of Clifton Park, NY. The high school john went to (also in Clifton Park) was one of the founding high schools to work with and help develop PLTW. I’m guessing John’s instructor at the time thought his project was good enough to use as an example and wrote it in with the curriculum. Just another example of what a small world we live in ;).
My instructor for Principles of Engineering was Mr. Paul Kane. (Yes, that is the same Mr. Kane who has been in FIRST since 1992, and mentors Team 20.)
I don’t recall ever doing this presentation, but I have heard of it being used. I think Mr. Kane just threw my name on there as an example when he was generating curriculum materials for PLTW (he was one of the driving forces behind parts of the curriculum).
So… yes my name, not my presentation.
(Though, it is possible they took a great deal of it from my Tensile Testing report. Which was 100% awesome. ;))
FYI–
The things I learned in the tensile testing unit of Principles of Engineering has proved VERY useful to me as a mechanical engineering student. This course is really the first taste I got of Mechanics of Materials, and Strength of Materials; both of which would come up again, and again, and AGAIN en route to becoming an engineer, and also would be seen at work, and in everyday life.
Learn as much as you can now! It WILL help later.
So… who else from PLTW has seen my name pop up? Very weird.
-JV
Perhaps that presentation was written by one of the other 5,834 JVN’s on this forum. 
Hmm apparently Cd just lost 5,819 JVN’s between your post and when I looked at the JVN page!
Quick everyone include JVN in your custom user title! :ahh: