Jim Burnham
Mechatronics Engineering Instructor (aka Fire Breathing Robots)
Morgan Hill, California, United States
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Top SchoolJim Burnham is a Mechatronics Engineering instructor in Morgan Hill with nine years of teaching experience who turned a long Xilinx engineering and marketing career into a hands-on high school program where “fire breathing robots” make microcontrollers and microcomputers accessible and exciting. He founded the Mechatronics program at Silicon Valley CTE after a year teaching cybersecurity, and routinely runs STEAM academies, youth workshops, and Scouts activities that blend Arduino/Raspberry Pi hacking with real-world engineering practice. Jim pairs deep hardware and embedded-systems expertise (VHDL/Verilog, C/C++) and scripting skills (Python, Perl, HTML) with classroom-first pedagogy, helping many students write their first code. His background in development boards and kit solutions at Xilinx gives him uncommon insight into bringing industry-grade tools into K–12 learning.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
CTE Clear Teaching Credential, Subject Credential: Engineering and Architecture & Information and Communication Technologies, CTE Clear Teaching Credential, Subject Credential: Engineering and Architecture & Information and Communication Technologies at Ventura County Office Of EducationBachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Brigham Young University
Spanish, assembly, c++, python, vhdlGithub contributions (5)
jimTheSTEAMClown/Python-Code
Feb 2017 - May 2022
Contributions:48 commits, 48 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
jimTheSTEAMClown/arduinoCode
Sep 2017 - Apr 2024
Contributions:82 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 8 months
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