I want to help kids learn engineering, and am looking for feedback / willing volunteers to help me design & test an engineering curriculum to help get kids excited about math / physics and help them see & learn the "why" of math/science. This would be something I'd do out of my own time, no charge, since I want to homeschooling our kids but need help breaking into this new world.
I am an electrical engineer employed by a R&D defense company with a masters specializing in digital signal processing with experience in radar, satellite processing, radio frequency processing, PCB design, and machine learning (computer vision & RF ML) and embedded hardware design. I got into engineering because I loved to learn. I like my job, but I want to give back, and see if I can help other kids catch the spark I discovered.
I'd like to chat with / work with a family or individual to design a project / curriculum for them to work on over some period of time (1 month, 1 semester??) that focuses on an interest the child has and helps them learn the required math, physics / science, and build / code the solution. There are great resources like Mark Rober for learning concepts and getting kids involved when they're young, but I don't know of any project based things for older kids being home schooled. If there are and this is not needed, please let me know! If this sounds interesting please comment and let me know.
Some project ideas that I had (not set on any of these) where we'd learn the math, physics, and build the project together are:
Build a laser communication device with led / diode mimicking how SpaceX satellites transmit information
Build antenna, and demodulate ADS-B waveform packets and write web app displaying airplanes flying over your house
Bird classifier - learn how signals are structured, and learn signal processing to classify and identify bird calls (classical & ML based)
I have lots of other ideas, but I wanted to see if anyone finds this interesting and would like to work together??