When I decided to write my third manuscript, "Double Life," it was a very tough decision to go actually ahead with it. My writing style incorporates a lot of my personal experiences into the building of a story. "Double Life" is a story about the Memoirs of a young man and how he went from a relatively innocent teenager to transforming into a feared, violent wise guy and deep cover agent. The story is about his double life. A calm life with his family and the separate life of a vicious hunter/assassin and body guard. It's a story of his life in organized crime and of being recruited to work indirectly for the government. It's an emotional roller coaster ride for the main character from his mid teens to his mid thirties. His love for the Ladies and how his Double Life eventually brought him into forced retirement, after it burned him out and had him seeking peace and solitude. In the end he had to find the one special woman he could finish his life out with that he felt completely comfortable with and to raise a family of their own. "Double Life" is a raw and powerful story that will grip the reader tightly. It will pull you into its world as you feel yourself becoming a part of the main character, or at least as close as a close friend can be. When the end comes, you will feel the anguish of a story that needs to be told. If you can put the book down you will be in deep thought, wondering what it would be like to be the main character and having your world evolve into a very dangerous, adrenaline filled rush of life, death, conspiracy, trafficking, and living a "Double Life."

This book includes papers presented at the International Conference "Educational Robotics in the Maker Era - EDUROBOTICS 2020", Online, February 2021. The contributions cover a variety of topics useful for teacher education and for designing learning by making activities for children and youth, with an emphasis on modern low-cost technologies (including block-based programming environments, Do-It-Yourself electronics, 3D printed artifacts, the use of intelligent distributed systems, the IoT technology, and gamification) in formal and informal education settings. This collection of contributions (17 chapters and 2 short papers) provides researchers and practitioners the latest advances in educational robotics in a broader sense focusing on science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) education. Teachers and educators at any school level can find insights and inspirations into how educational robotics can promote technological interest and 21st-century skills: creativity, critical thinking, team working, and problem-solving with special emphasis on new emerging making technologies.

The Grumpy Old Man is, in a sense, a very real person. There comes a point in time when one gets tired of hearing people going off half cock about issues they didn't take the time to research nor put any intelligent thought into them. What the Grumpy Old Man is about is conveying a sensible point of view about the local, national, and world issues that mostly everyone seems so concerned about. In a sense, it is a common-sense look at history and why the world is the way it is and what it would take to change it for the better.

This book gathers papers presented at the International Conference "Educational Robotics in the Maker Era - EDUROBOTICS 2018", held in Rome, Italy, on October 11, 2018. The respective chapters explore the connection between the Maker Movement on the one hand, and Educational Robotics, which mainly revolves around the constructivist and constructionist pedagogy, on the other. They cover a broad range of topics relevant for teacher education and for designing activities for children and youth, with an emphasis on using modern low-cost technologies (including block-based programming environments, Do-It-Yourself electronics, 3D printed artifacts, intelligent distributed systems, IoT technology and gamification) in formal and informal education settings. The twenty contributions collected here will introduce researchers and practitioners to the latest advances in educational robotics, with a focus on science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEAM) education. Teachers and educators at all levels will find valuable insights and inspirations into how educational robotics can promote technological interest and 21st century skills - e.g. creativity, critical thinking, teamwork, and problem-solving - with a special emphasis on new making technologies.

This book includes papers presented at the International Conference "Educational Robotics 2016 (EDUROBOTICS)", Athens, November 25, 2016. The papers build on constructivist and constructionist pedagogy and cover a variety of topics, including teacher education, design of educational robotics activities, didactical models, assessment methods, theater robotics, programming & making electronics with Snap4Arduino, the Duckietown project, robotics driven by tangible programming, Lego Mindstorms combined with App Inventor, the Orbital Education Platform, Anthropomorphic Robots and Human Meaning Makers in Education, and more. It provides researchers interested in educational robotics with the latest advances in the field with a focus on science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEAM) education. At the same time it offers teachers and educators from primary to secondary and tertiary education insights into how educational robotics can trigger the development of technological interest and 21st century skills in STEAM education (creative thinking, team working, problem solving).

The Grumpy Old Man is, in a sense, a very real person. There comes a point in time when one gets tired of hearing people going off half cock about issues they didn't take the time to research nor put any intelligent thought into them. What the Grumpy Old Man is about is conveying a sensible point of view about the local, national, and world issues that mostly everyone seems so concerned about. In a sense, it is a common-sense look at history and why the world is the way it is and what it would take to change it for the better.

When I decided to write my third manuscript, "Double Life," it was a very tough decision to go actually ahead with it. My writing style incorporates a lot of my personal experiences into the building of a story. "Double Life" is a story about the Memoirs of a young man and how he went from a relatively innocent teenager to transforming into a feared, violent wise guy and deep cover agent. The story is about his double life. A calm life with his family and the separate life of a vicious hunter/assassin and body guard. It's a story of his life in organized crime and of being recruited to work indirectly for the government. It's an emotional roller coaster ride for the main character from his mid teens to his mid thirties. His love for the Ladies and how his Double Life eventually brought him into forced retirement, after it burned him out and had him seeking peace and solitude. In the end he had to find the one special woman he could finish his life out with that he felt completely comfortable with and to raise a family of their own. "Double Life" is a raw and powerful story that will grip the reader tightly. It will pull you into its world as you feel yourself becoming a part of the main character, or at least as close as a close friend can be. When the end comes, you will feel the anguish of a story that needs to be told. If you can put the book down you will be in deep thought, wondering what it would be like to be the main character and having your world evolve into a very dangerous, adrenaline filled rush of life, death, conspiracy, trafficking, and living a "Double Life."