This week, the students started working on their original country projects by designing their country’s flag and deciding on population size, land area, and GDP. They will finish these projects next week and present them at Open House! The students…
Inspiring Global Leaders [Week 4]
STEM: Discovery Gets Rolling [Week 4]
This week, we moved on to our biggest project! Students worked in teams of three or four to build roller coasters out of recycled materials. They began the process by testing parts of rollercoasters to see how they work and…
STEM: Discovery [Week 4]
Robotics with EV3 [Week 4]
Lego EV3 Robots Maneuver Through the Course [Week 4]
This week our class said good bye to their trash collection attachments, and began to work with their first sensor—the ultrasonic sensor. This sensor detects distance between the sensor and an object and reads it in a measurement of centimeters…
Minecraft [Week 4]
Minecraft Faces Some Obstacles [Week 4]
We FINALLY finished our castles last week. We started our obstacle courses on Monday and finished on Tuesday so that the entire class could visit each other’s obstacle courses and try it out. Some obstacle courses were very hazardous (lava…
Lego WeDo Explores Beach Clean-up [Week 4]
The oceans are dirty! What do we do? On Tuesday, the students were tasked with designing a robot that could help clean up their favorite beach. They considered issues such as how it would move, how it would collect trash,…