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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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Kung Hei Fat Choi!
Kung Hei Fat Choi! Happy Lunar New Year! We listened to a story that taught us about the sinister Nian who wasn’t nice to the villagers at the beginning of each new year, so the villagers learned to scare him off with loud noises, bright lights, and the colour red.
Clash of the Ideologies
The HIVE students, in a fun collaboration between their Civics and History courses, participated in the ‘Clash of the Ideologies’ activity, which involved each student completing research on a specific political ideology and creating a short audio-visual presentation. For the presentation, we had some special guests in the audience, the
The Hour of Code
The kinders teamed up with their older school friends during The Hour of Code. They worked together to explore different coding tutorials. The younger children benefited from the knowledge and experience of their older buddies and enjoyed being able to help them solve awesome coding challenges. What is The Hour
Metabolic Processes
For the Metabolic Processes Unit, the Biology 12 students conducted investigations to determine the rates of cellular respiration and photosynthesis. They made predictions, explored direct and indirect methods of measurement, and investigated a variety of factors that influence metabolic rates in various organisms. Students practiced using their lab observations to
Thinking Critically about Bioplastics
In Science 9, the students have become inventors of bioplastic and other plastic alternatives. They are exploring the chemistry of bioplastic, reading the recent research on the use of waste materials from agriculture to make bioplastics, and thinking critically about the societal, technological, and environmental challenges still associated with bioplastic
Illuminated Letters
Students experienced the detailed-oriented work that comprised illuminated letters and manuscripts. A respected art-form of the 7th century, performed by a team of monks (the parchmenter, the scribe, the illuminator), under a vow of silence. A vow which the students found troubling! 😁 As students drafted and created their final