Thursday, 16 October 2014

Social Studies Test - Tuesday Oct 21



What to study:

  • Types of government - autocracy, anarchy and democracy
  • Levels of Canadian government - Municipal, provincial and federal; two examples of the responsibilities of each level of government; title of leader; current leader's name; title of local representative; where they meet 
  • Rights and responsibilites
  • Election vocabulary (ballot box, polling station etc)


Sunday, 12 October 2014

Intrepid Park on the site of Camp X, Whitby,ON & the Ontario Regiment RCAC Museum, Oshawa, ON



Skill testing question: What is the name of the movie that stars one of the museum's tanks, oh and Brad Pitt? Write your answer on a slip of paper and hand it in Tuesday morning for a prize.

Saturday, 11 October 2014

FLL Update




To date, the hardworking FLL team have:
  • built the components for the competition table
  • assembled the robot
  • chosen "blindness" as their research project topic
  • started assembling the table that will be used to test the robot
  • downloaded and installed the robotic software
This week's meetings will be: Tuesday 3:30 - 5:00, Wednesday at lunch hour, Thursday 3:30 - 5:00