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Summer SAVY, Session 4 Day 5, “Coding and Robotics” (3rd-4th)
Jul. 11, 2025—What a week! The student programmers quickly learned the skills presented in this course and are ready to take on new challenges in coding and robotics. Not only were they quick learners, but this group also showed exceptional teamwork and collaboration skills. Each toy company team worked hard to complete their challenges. Everyone’s ideas were...
Summer SAVY, Session 4 Day 5, “Creature Connections: Animals, Humans, and the Natural World” (1st-2nd)
Jul. 11, 2025— Dear SAVY Families, I cannot believe that our time at SAVY Session 4: Creature Connections has already ended. I have thoroughly enjoyed my time learning with and from the SAVY zoologists this week, and I could not be more pleased with the way our class ended today. To start our day, we returned...
Summer SAVY, Session 4 Day 5, “Creative Contraptions: A Study of Inventions” (1st-2nd)
Jul. 11, 2025—It has been a fantastic week of learning together! I am so proud of the work that each of your students did while exploring simple and compound machines this week! We spent most of the morning putting the finishing touches on our inventions. Students completed a presentation form, which served as a template to help...
Summer SAVY, Session 4 Day 4, “Wonders of Electrochemistry” (7th-8th)
Jul. 10, 2025—SAVY Families, Today, students explored how electrochemistry plays a vital role in medical technology, focusing on biosensors like glucose monitors. We began with a discussion on familiar medical devices and investigated how electrochemical reactions help monitor health conditions. Students built simple sensor models using basic circuits to simulate how glucose monitors detect changes in conductivity....
Summer SAVY, Session 4 Day 4, “Social Determinants of Health: How Communities and Policies Impact Well-Being” (7th-8th)
Jul. 10, 2025—Today was an energy-filled, thoughtful, and truly rewarding day in our Social Determinants of Health class. We began the day with a game of Jeopardy to review everything we’ve learned this week so far. We had three competitive teams and four categories: Public Health, Social Determinants of Health, Research and Data, and Policy Process. I...
Summer SAVY, Session 4 Day 4, “Math & Music” (7th-8th)
Jul. 10, 2025—Today in class, we explored the topic of patterns and how they show up all around us. We started by discussing different types of patterns we see in nature, art, and everyday life. It was exciting to realize that patterns aren’t just in math but are everywhere, like in the leaves on trees, the stripes...
Summer SAVY, Session 4 Day 4, “Truth v Perception” (5th-6th)
Jul. 10, 2025—Greetings, families and students! What an AWESOME class today! Today was all about Mock Trial and how people perceive the truth, share their perspectives and stories, and how to be persuasive and convince or sway others to your side. It was also about subjectivity and objectivity, learning to lean on the evidence and the...
Summer SAVY, Session 4 Day 4, “Solving the Chemical Spill: Navigating Ecological and Chemical Systems” (5th-6th)
Jul. 10, 2025—Dear Parents, We had another successful day of learning! We again checked our experiments and noted that the metal and leaves in the acid had been affected the most. The olive oil had not evaporated very much, but we had differing results in terms of water, vinegar, and orange juice evaporation. The vinegar has...
Summer SAVY, Session 4 Day 4, “Intro to Neurobiology” (5th-6th)
Jul. 10, 2025—We started the day with our students’ group presentations on Alzheimer’s disease and two amnesic patient studies! The first group introduced the definition, causes, and symptoms of Alzheimer’s. It was a very clear and informative presentation, and we learned about the symptoms, causes, and risk factors of Alzheimer’s. The team also did a very good...
Summer SAVY, Session 4 Day 4, “Tremendous Transformations in Writing” (3rd-4th)
Jul. 10, 2025—Today was a very productive day for our writers! We began by talking about the significance of structure and organization in storytelling. We examined how punctuation provides structure in a sentence, and how that structure can have a huge impact on meaning. Consider the following: Larry wrestles the alligator he lost. Larry wrestles. The alligator?...