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AcadeCoders Blog 2016: MinecraftEDU (July 25th-29th, 2016)
MinecraftEDU Welcome to the fifth week of the AcadeCoders session: MinecraftEDU. This week’s session of MinecraftEDU will cover large amounts of creative processes within MinecraftEDU and understanding how world libraries work. The AcadeCoders will be exposed to a new world each day and will attempt to replicate it in their

AcadeCoders Blog 2016: HTML/CSS (July 18th-22nd, 2016)
HTML/CSS Welcome to the fourth week of the AcadeCoders session: HTML/CSS. This blog post will cover each daily activity of each camp day with various pictures and descriptions. HTML/CSS are markup languages used to code and design responsive and beautiful websites. Day 1: Monday, July 18th, 2016 We began the

AcadeCoders Blog 2016: JavaScript (July 11th-15th, 2016)
JavaScript Welcome to the third week of the AcadeCoders session: JavaScript. This blog post will cover each daily activity of each camp day with various pictures and descriptions. JavaScript is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers. Day 1: Monday, July 11th, 2016

AcadeCoders Blog 2016: Python Power (July 4th-8th, 2016)
Python Power Welcome to the second week of the AcadeCoders session: Python Power. This blog post will cover each daily activity of each camp day with various pictures and descriptions. Python is an object-oriented programming language that is highly regarded for its efficiency and speed. It is well-known companies such

AcadeCoders Blog 2016: MinecraftEdu Turtle Code (June 27th-30th, 2016)
MinecraftEDU: Turtle Code Welcome to the first week of the AcadeCoders session: Minecraft Turtle Code. This blog post will cover each daily activity of each camp day with various pictures and descriptions Day 1: Monday, June 27th, 2016 We began the day with morning ice-breakers for the campers and instructors

AcadeCoders 2016 Blog
AcadeCoders Blog 2016 This blog is dedicated to the daily coding challenges and camp activities for the AcadeCoders community. Parents can view the blog to see their child’s coding progress and daily activity while students can reflect on their learning experience with their fellow AcadeCoders. Click each theme below for
AcadeCap Teacher and Staff Blogs
Festive iSTEAM activities
Leading up to the holidays, the students participated in fun, festive iSTEAM activities. The students were tasked with building a structure out of a variety of different shapes of cookies, and made some pretty interesting houses and buildings. They used their problem solving skills and creativity. The students also used
The Virtual Debates Continue…
The HIVE debating continued this week with a rousing game of “Take a Stand.” Students were presented with a topic statement and had to think about whether they strongly agreed or disagreed or somewhat agreed or disagreed and why. They then had to move their sticky note to the correct
Think about it! Question it! Debate it!
Debating is our AcadeCap monthly focus for January. The online tele-learning format did not stop the HIVE students from participating in an engaging first debate. Everyone had some great persuasive arguments and rebuttals. Students are looking forward to the second debate. The high school students did a wonderful job of
Give the Gift of Words
During the SMILE holiday party, students participated in reading games, wrote word and sentence ‘gifts’ to give to each other and decorated the windows with holiday messages. Happy Holidays Everyone! Source:: Mme Christine’s SLT Blog
Mitosis and Meiosis
Biology 10 and 11 students learn about mitosis and meiosis with hands-on microscope work and a virtual lab assignment. Source:: PSSP & OSSD
Making Groups
Early numeration skills, such as spontaneously grouping objects to simplify the count, are part of the Defi-Maths curriculum in Grade 1 and 2. In this activity, students were given a random large amount of manipulatives, and were tasked with organizing them to be easily count and identify how many each