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Caribou Math Contest Results
The Caribou Math Contest is an a world wide online math competition held six times throughout the school year, with different competitions for different grade groups. This year, internationally there were more than 6000 students participating in grades 3-4, more than 8000 students participating in grades 5-6, and more than
Raspberry Pi
New for AcadeCoders 2016 is Raspberry Pi, which will be part of the programming for the Robotics and Artificial Intelligence week (August 8 – 12). Raspberry Pi is a series of single-board computers that students get to manipulate through hardware and software configuration. Students will be introduced to the basics of Raspberry Pi from its
Summer camps start on June 20
Summer is coming! Our first day of AcadeCamp is on June 20, while AcadeCoders is on June 27. Have you signed up yet? If not, now is the time! If you are curious as to what goes on during a camp week, please visit our camp blog for an entertaining and informative look
AcadeCoders ADVANCED!
Are you ready for a new challenge? The AcadeCoders 2016 summer camp program is offering an Advanced HTML/CSS course to students who have taken the HTML/Course during the AcadeCoders 2015 summer camp program. Students will be creating beautiful and responsive websites with Bootstrap, a front-end library for creating high-end websites
AcadeCamp 2017
AcadeCamp is an innovative summer programme allowing campers from ages 5-9 to experiment, ask questions, and get messy, tout en français. Science, Technology, Engineering, Architecture and Math (STEAM) demand inquiry, connection, experimentation and exploration, and with these processes at play, there is an unpredictable product until the very end. The weekly bilingual
AcadeCoders 2016
AcadeCoders – Coding Adventures is a seven week software coding and design camp being offered during the summer at Académie de la Capitale for ages 6-14. Each week will see participants progress through more complex coding adventures. Our curriculum is developed by the AcadeCap STEM team and will be delivered
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Back at school!
Coming back to school in person has been really exciting for the students. Being able to play with one another and being able to go outside for recess and Outdoor Education has been enjoyable for everyone. During Outdoor Education, the students explored, and went to new places. Another exciting thing
MS Readathon 2021
AcadeCap students love to read and are participating in the annual MS Readathon. They are reading as many books as they can before February 28th to raise funds for people living with MS. If you would like to support their cause you can use this link to make a donation,
Structures in Nature
As the Grade 2/3 continue to work on their unit about structures and forces, we started to think about structures that are not man-made. We thought about what structures we could find in nature, that either occur naturally, or are made by animals. We also thought about the form and
Perspective
In January, we started our new unit on beliefs. We have starting talking about religion, values, and morals. This week we spoke of perspective and viewed images as a group. These images were shown to the students, in which different animals, people or objects were shown. Depending on your perspective,
Use the force!
As students in Grade 2/3 settle into tele-learning in the new year, they began learning about their new unit which focuses on forces and structures. At home, students were challenged to create a toy that moves using a force. Students had to create a plan for their toy, identify materials
Sorting animals into habitats
After discussing different habitats, the students thought of animals and categorized them according to the habitat they live in. Source:: Kinder & Grade 1 Blog