This week our journalists focused their interviews and articles on these classes: Robotics with VEX, Science Olympics, Driver’s Education, and How to Make an Apple Pie. In small groups, we read course descriptions, interviewed teachers and students, took photos, wrote…
2D Stop Motion Animation Projects [Week 2]
This week we started on our first 2D stop motion animation projects. This included brainstorming ideas, creating a storyboard, pitching and sharing our ideas with the rest of the class, starting production with a media of our choice (hand drawn,…
2019 STEM: Discovery – Week 2
Wearable Arts Eat Pizza in Style! [Week 2]
In anticipation for our field trip of the summer to California Pizza Kitchen, we did our first tie-dye project using Summer Programs T-shirts! We also learned how to hem fabric by hand and continued working on our embroidered pins and…
Apple Pie Collects Butter and Heads to Italy [Week 2]
This week in How to Make an Apple Pie, we finished our adventure through England by making the first ingredient for our apple pies, butter. Now that we have our butter, we packed our things and headed to Italy. We…
Auditions are Complete for the Stars of the Stage [Week 2]
Students began the second week of Drama: Stars on Stage class by performing a series of drama exercises. The class participated in projection exercises, practiced songs for the play, and read over their script. During class on Thursday, casting auditions…
2019 Summer Games – Week 2
2019 Hawaii Nature Study: Researchers – Week 2
Safety is Key in Driver’s Education
Due to the Tuesday holiday, Driver’s Education started on Wednesday. In their first 3 days of class, Mr. Kala has already provided the students with an introduction to driving, how the licensing system works, and getting acquainted with the vehicle.…
VEX Roboticists Get Rolling
This week our master roboticists made vehicles out of VEX robotics parts, like metal pieces, moving parts, structure parts, L-brackets, wheels, wrenches, screws, bolts, and bearings. Their goal was to build the car that traveled the farthest distance. As Shune…