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Upcoming Teacher Professional Development: Spring Edition
Happy 2023!! A new calendar year has begun, while the school year is half over. How are your personal PD amounts looking? Below are some opportunities coming up that might align with your teacher professional growth goals. Start the conversation with your team, collegues, friends in other schools. How are you going to use your… Read more
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The Sparkans Robotics Team Needs YOU!
We have started a FIRST Robotics Team at the High School called The Sparkans. We have over 30 students in the robotics team, and students have been very enthusiastic preparing for the season, and they are also working hard to raise funds to build the robot and to make it to the FIRST Robotics Competition. Starting… Read more
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Stop Motion Animation Videos – 7A & 7D
Stop Motion Animation Videos – 7A & 7D By Megan Shaw Over the past few weeks, Grade 7 students have been working on creating videos on the Early European Explorers. In 7A and 7D, students elected to create Stop Motion Animation videos on explorers like Henry Hudson, Sir John Franklin and more. The challenge was… Read more
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Redesigning the Maker Space for Optimal Learning
By Janessa Bretner and Rebecca Ochitwa This project is all about students creating alternative arrangements for the Maker Space classroom designed to promote optimal learning and ensuring that the form of the space matches the function. To get started with this project, students needed to research criteria that are important for an optimal Maker’s Space.… Read more
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Sparkade
Our grade 10 elective is well underway and the prototype video games and cabinets are being laser cut and assembled with their Phidgets hardware. This project is all about students designing and programming their own games, and then creating the component housing (screen, Phidgets, cables, computer hardware). Students were inspired by their experience with Journey2050… Read more
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Future Ready Leader Speaker: Muni Boga
STEM Innovation Academy is excited to announce the launch of our new guest speaker series, “Future Ready Leaders,” featuring individuals from a wide range of fields who have achieved success in their careers and can provide inspiration and advice to our students. The first speaker in this series was Muni Boga, a multi-talented individual with… Read more
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