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UAV Options Course Launch
By Tyler ChristiansenSW Junior High Options Teacher Something new is taking flight at our SW Junior High School — literally. Starting in semester 2 we’re launching a pilot Drone course called Unmanned Aerial Vehicles or UAV, and a small group of Grade 9 students will be the first to test it out. Drones sit at the intersection of… Read more
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Light Boxes
Students in our SW Junior High 3D Design and Engineering course are wrapping up the assembly of the light boxes they’ve been working on throughout the term. The project began with learning how to design scalable vector graphics in Adobe Illustrator and export them for cutting on our vinyl cutters. From there, students moved on… Read more
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Deer Anatomy Lesson
By Dave JosephSTEMIA SW Junior High Science and Options Our grade 8 students at the SW Junior High participated in an interesting dissection last week, the lungs and heart from a white tail deer that was recently harvested in Alberta by one of our teachers. During the field dressing phase the heart, lungs, and windpipe… Read more
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Grade 7 in Virtual Reality
Our grade 7 students have been busy coding and building virtual reality experiences using DelightEx. Working with this software, they tackled two unique projects. The first project challenged students to design a Rube Goldberg machine that demonstrated their understanding of loops, conditionals, variables, and functions. Their machines needed to include at least ten distinct elements… Read more
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Skills Exploration Challenge 2025
By Dan McWilliamSW Junior HIgh Options Teacher and Learning Lead On December 2, 2025, our SW Junior High Skills Club took part in the annual Skills Exploration Challenge through Skills Alberta. This year’s theme was Future Friendly Transportation. Students were asked to design or redesign a personal or public mode of transportation unique to their… Read more
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Stop Motion Animation Project
By Tyler ChristiansenSW Junior High Options Our animation class wrapped up a stop-motion project that asked students to build a one-minute film from scratch. Each group had to capture at least 600 individual photos and animate them at 10 frames per second. The goal was to learn the fundamentals of frame-by-frame storytelling, timing, and visual… Read more
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