Merry Christmas to all, Happy Holidays to all

 

Merry Christmas to all, may your day be filled with Joy. 

Happy Holidays to all, may your time with family be grand. 

8th Grade - Lego Mindstorm Sumo competition live updates

 To everyone interested in watching the Sumo competition live:

The following links will be updated as the competitions occur. Each class will have their own Ranking Table and the Round Match Ups link. 

8-11

8-11 Ranking Table

Round Match Ups

8-12

8-12 Ranking Table

Round Match Ups

8-13

8-13 Ranking Table

Round Match Ups

8-14

8-14 Ranking Table

Round Match Ups

As classes are set up this post will be updated along with announcing the actual dates for competition. Stay Tuned. 

6th Grade - Introduction to Programming with Tynker.com

 To all 6th graders in sections 11 to 14 the programming projects have begun. They will make use of Tynker.com to help you learning the basics of programming. 

7th Grade - Co2 Dragster Project has begun.

 To all 7th grade students in 7-11 to 7-14 the Dragster project begun. Be sure to use the Design Process steps you learned in the previous project to create your personalized car. 

Racing will occur in Mid January so lets get designing, building and testing. 

8th - Lego MindStorm projects have begun.

 

Students have begun building their robots and will then begin programming them to meet the requirements of the Driving Test project. Stay tuned for more updates showing the student's success. 

6th grade - Learning how to measure project has begun.

 

Students will learn how to measure down to a 1/16" accuracy. Which will then get them started on the next project covering Full Scale Drawings. 

7th Grade - Design Process - Manilla Folder project has begun.

 The Design process project has begun. Students will following the design process to help them research, design and build their "stage". Unique ideas are always encouraged. Good Luck and Good Design to all. Below are two designs that took a different approach then many others. 

Remember, your design can end up being quite impressive.  

8th Grade - Conversion between Decimal and Binary Number Systems

 

8th Grade students - Two projects have been assigned covering the conversion from Decimal to Digital and then Digital back to Decimal. 

6th Grades - Email projects have begun

 

To all 6th Grade students

The Gmail projects have begun. There will be two projects assigned which require students to learn about providing information through email, understanding the importance of the Subject area and learning how to attached files when sending an email. 

7th grade Google Apps, Drive and Partial Screen Captures has begun.

 

Grade 7 Students

The Google Apps and Screen Capture project has begun. Students will learn how the google docs and google drive are used. Students will also learn how to create partial screen captures. Both of these new things will be used in upcoming projects so students should be trying to learn as much as possible. 

   

Sumo Competition Winners

 Today's competition allowed many different configurations which allowed the students to see how the different design had their own pros and cons. 

In First Place Team Eric  

Team Eric's strategy was to play it safe but then push the opponent around using their positional advantage. 

In Second Place Team Matt

Team Matt's strategy was one of aggression but also pausing before going for the win to make sure. 

In Third Place Team Ruby

Team Ruby's strategy was "Hug the Edge" then attack if you find the opponent. 

8th Grade Sumo competitions have begun.

One of the first battles we got to enjoy.  

7th Grade Manila Folder Testing

Below are the pictures of the stages created with no visible names.