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Explorers Accepted to BE WISE |
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Middle School Sports Tryouts:
Fall Season: Girl's Volleyball & Co-ed Soccer
Remember: In order to play, students must maintain a 2.0 GPA |
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Students Develop Rubik's Cube-Solving Robot.
The Philadelphia Inquirer (3/8, Huston) reports on two Rowan University engineering students who built the Rubik's Cube-Solving Robot, which "solves the cube in 15 seconds," or roughly 17 moves. The two students, Joe Ridgeway and Zachary Grady, created the device using "a special camera, a computer brain...a donated Siemens programmable logic controller (PLC)" and "a square cup [that] works with a spinning base to manipulate the cube's colored sides." The robot's creation "sprang from Rowan's engineering clinic, in which the students received an open-ended call to take state-of-the-art Siemens hardware and...'do something cool.'"
Sally Ride Says Science Needs To Improve Its Image For Kids.
California's Oakland Tribune (2/7, Murphy) reported that Sally Ride, "the first woman and the youngest American to fly to space, told a UC Berkeley audience Monday night that science badly needs to update its image. Too many Americans -- teachers and students included -- see science as an impossibly hard, uncreative and solitary pursuit, she said." Schools, however, are part of the answer, Ride said, because they can show children "scientists of all kinds and backgrounds at an early age." She also urged schools to make science classes more accessible. Ride said, "Scientists don't memorize the periodic table. Scientists solve problems. ... Often they get results that they don't expect, and often they learn more than when they get results they do expect." The Tribune said her talk "drew a younger-than-usual crowd. She talked about the morning she learned, through an advertisement in the Stanford University student newspaper, that NASA was hiring women for the first time." She "told the audience how wonderfully fun it is to be weightless," but added that "if America's students don't become better prepared in science and math, they will have a hard time finding living wage jobs, let alone flying to space, she said." The San Jose Mercury News also carried the report. |
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In order to participate in promotion ceremony scheduled for June 14, 2013 at SHS, students must meet the following criteria:
1. Complete 10 hours of community service during the school year at a non-profit organization.
2. Maintain a 2.0 GPA
3. Students may not have an "F" during the 4th Quarter
4. Students must maintain positive behavior throughout the school year
5. All school books, including library materials, must be returned or dues must be paid |
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