SAVY Category
Saturday SAVY, Day 3 – Building Virtual Worlds (7th/8th)
Nov. 8, 2025—The final day of Building Virtual Worlds was a fun and educational experience for everyone–instructors included! We began with a discussion and demonstration by William Quackenbush, a Ph.D. student in our lab, of how and why our lab does body tracking and the specific hypotheses we are trying to explore using this technique. This was...
Saturday SAVY, Day 3 – Wired Up! Electronics in Action (5th/6th)
Nov. 8, 2025—Today was the final day of our Wired Up! program, and the students wrapped up by bringing together everything they learned over the past three sessions. They combined their understanding of electronics, breadboarding, and Arduino programming to create circuits that respond to real signals, such as their own heartbeats. We began with fading LEDs using...
Saturday SAVY, Day 3 – The Call: Heroism and Transformation of Percy Jackson (5th/6th)
Nov. 8, 2025—SAVY parents, Day three at SAVY was another great day. I am sad that it is over. I have really enjoyed getting to know this group of students. I know I have learned so much from them, and I hope they have learned as much from me. On day three, we started with a game...
Saturday SAVY, Day 3 – Observing the Cosmos (5th/6th)
Nov. 8, 2025—The final day of Observing the Cosmos began with a short review of cosmic expansion and our balloon demonstration from Day 2. This led into a hands-on Hubble Law observational activity where students plotted galaxy distances (comparing known distances to angular size) against recessional velocities (derived from measured redshift) and compared our results to Hubble’s original trend....
Saturday SAVY, Day 3 – If Walls Could Talk…(3rd/4th)
Nov. 8, 2025—Hello families! We did it!! We not only completed our whirlwind course, but did it all amazingly well. I could not be happier or prouder of the students’ accomplishments. The final day was a synthesis of extremely complex tasks. They took all the content they learned in 2 days, which was all new to them...
Saturday SAVY, Day 3 – Science of the Senses (3rd/4th)
Nov. 8, 2025—We had a great final week in SAVY! This week, we finished our study of the five senses. Students continued their work as scientists and engineers as they discovered new content and prepared for the conclusion of our study. First, we reviewed our understanding of discovery and created generalizations for this theme. Students also reviewed...
Saturday SAVY, Day 3 – Spatial Smarts with Ms. Slick (1st/2nd)
Nov. 8, 2025—Hello SAVY Families, Yesterday marked the exciting conclusion of our SAVY Spatial Smarts adventure! We began the day by greeting one another, reviewing our learning from the previous sessions, and setting the stage for a day full of hands-on exploration and big math ideas. Students were eager to dive back into spatial reasoning and build...
Saturday SAVY, Day 3 – Spatial Smarts with Ms. Gruchot (1st/2nd)
Nov. 8, 2025—Dear SAVY Families, We had another fantastic day of Fall Spring 2025: Spatial Smarts. The mathematicians once again blew me away with their knowledge, curiosity, and creativity. I am confident that each of them is walking away from this course with an increased spatial awareness. We started our day reviewing the concepts from weeks one...
Saturday SAVY, Day 3 – Plants and Pollen (1st/2nd)
Nov. 8, 2025—Our Agricultural Engineers were very industrious today. After sharing observations of our seeds made over the week, we reviewed parts of the seed, pollination, and pollinators. We also revisited how Integrated Pest Control uses natural systems to control pests. We completed the story of Mariana Becomes a Butterfly and learned that she solved the problem of...
Saturday SAVY, Day 2 – “Building Virtual Worlds” (7th/8th)
Nov. 1, 2025—On Saturday, our Building Virtual Worlds session opened with a lecture on ways to experimentally test multisensory processing in a neuroscience lab, followed by a hands-on demonstration, and a discussion of how a lab like ours goes about simulating spatial audio in a practical sense. For the remainder of the day, our students continued to...