Friday, October 23, 2015

Dash in Action!

Sasstimes has prepared some interesting videos that show you what this incredible, interactive robot can do when it is programed with the different apps.

Here are the links to watch Dash in action!

Video One: Showing what to do with the app Go!

Video Two: Dash reacting to the app Path!

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Y6 Students Visited the MuPSA!

11:31:00 AM Anonymous No comments

During the month of August, Y6 students visited the MuPSA, which is a museum that shows you interesting historical facts about St. Andrews. It was a way of commemorating the 177th school anniversary. It is located in Perú and Belgrano streets.

Click on the following link to learn more about St. Andrew's history and the MuPSA

Meet the New Interactive Robot at School

11:29:00 AM Anonymous No comments

Good news, a fun interactive robot has arrived at school! It is called Dash. You can do many things with it. You can program it to obey your orders or play with its lights. You can also make it follow a path you create, making noises on its way.

There is also a complex programing app called Blockly, very similar to Scratch. You drag and drop puzzle pieces with orders that make Dash follow them. Below there is an example of the instructions you can create.

Come back for some more news.

Nature Club in Action

11:43:00 AM Anonymous 1 comment

Nature Club Started working

Nature Club has been working very hard since the beginning of the year. These are some of the projects they have been working on:

Colourful piggy banks to separate bottle tops by their colour.

Flipping bottle tops tied to a string into a plastic water bottle

Keep reading for more exciting projects after the holidays.

Visual Art in Action

11:39:00 AM Anonymous No comments

Visual Art started creating amazing logos for other committees.

These are the the steps they took to create them.

First they drew all the ideas they thought about
Then, they decided which were the best ideas and they scanned them into the computer
Next, with all their ideas defined, they put them all in the same poster and, they had their final draft created.
Finally they added colour and printed it.
Visual art is doing this with all the committees.

These are the logos they have already designed: