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Summer SAVY Session 6, Day 5, Intro to Chemical Engineering (Whiting)
Jul. 28, 2023—What a great end to our week! We continued to test and improve our play dough process today. Students implemented and reflected on all parts of the engineering design process. When we made our best play dough yet, also known as Play Dough 4.0, students colored the play dough with food coloring and packed their...
Summer SAVY Session 6, Day 5, Intro to Chemical Engineering (Rylander)
Jul. 28, 2023—It was a bittersweet goodbye for us in the Introduction to Chemical Engineering class today. The students have had a ton of fun this week, learned a lot, collaborated well, and generated some amazing ideas. We began today with a discussion of what synthetic materials are and the role that chemical engineers play in creating...
Summer Career Connections Session 6, Day 4, The Next Great Debate
Jul. 27, 2023—Thursday July 27, 2023 Good afternoon families and great debaters! Today we started out with a self reflection and discussion about yesterday’s debate. We provided each other with positive feedback and then discussed what we could work on to improve. We then played several fun speaking games in order to practice speaking extemporaneously and...
Summer Career Connections Session 6, Day 4, Conservation Paleobiology
Jul. 27, 2023—Happy Thursday, and welcome back to our Conservation Paleobiology journey at SAVY! Today was an exhilarating day filled with a deep dive into the past – specifically, the end of the Pleistocene Epoch (~10,000 years ago). We continued our quest to unlock the mysteries of our planet’s history, and our young conservationists displayed remarkable enthusiasm...
Summer Career Connections Session 6, Day 4, Molecular Gastronomy
Jul. 27, 2023—Happy Thursday Parents and Families! Can you believe the week is almost over? I sure can’t, it feels like just yesterday I was meeting your children for the first time, ready to teach them the ropes about weird food science! Today we covered the last 2 phase change topics for Molecular Gastronomy- Emulsification and...
Summer SAVY Session 6, Day 4, Harry Potter (Lowery)
Jul. 27, 2023—Today in wizarding school, our young witches and wizards went to Herbology class. We discussed the plants of the wizarding world and compared them to plants from the muggle world. After some great discussions, we potted our own mandrakes (no earmuffs required)! After herbology, students participated in Flying class! There, we learned about the theory...
Summer SAVY Session 6, Day 4, Harry Potter (Owens)
Jul. 27, 2023—Today in wizarding school, our young witches and wizards went to Herbology class. We discussed the plants of the wizarding world and compared them to plants from the muggle world. After some great discussions, we potted our own mandrakes (no earmuffs required)! After herbology, students participated in Flying class! There, we learned about the theory...
Summer SAVY Session 6, Day 4, Writing with Fire
Jul. 27, 2023—Today, students put their art skills to work, creating masks to represent their identities, just like the main character of our book! Like Guero, students created all kinds of amazing animal designs, from axolotls to giraffes. Tomorrow, students will have the opportunity to incorporate their masks into the cover page of their memoirs. In...
Summer SAVY Session 6, Day 4, Encounters and Experiences
Jul. 27, 2023—Dear SAVY Families, I think your students will agree that today was the most exciting day of SAVY Session 6: Encounters and Experiences, Archetypes in Literature so far! Students got the chance to read, analyze, and be creative in new ways today. We started the day with part two of our novel study....
Summer SAVY Session 6, Day 4, Forces of Nature
Jul. 27, 2023—We finally got to utilize all of the information we’ve learned this week to create windmills out of many material choices. The sailboat science experiment was completed today and the students learned more about the steps of the scientific method, especially about hypothesis, trials and testing, variables and controls, and applied the engineering process of...