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Summer Career Connections at SAVY 2018: Session 4, Day 5 – Engineering Design (Rising 7th)
Jul. 13, 2018—Thanks for coming to open house! Today was a whirlwind of activity. We finished our final round of testing this morning, made a poster about our gliders, and made a poster about a topic we learned this week. It was great seeing how well everyone learned everything this week. It was a lot of information...
Summer Career Connections at SAVY 2018: Session 4, Day 5 – Think Like a Lawyer (Rising 7th)
Jul. 13, 2018—It’s a wrap, and Think Like a Lawyer is over. Think of what you knew about our legal system at the beginning of the week, and compare it to what you know now. We began with the Constitution and the roles of the branches of our government. We learned about Article I and Congress’s enumerated...
Summer Career Connections at SAVY 2018: Session 4, Day 4 – Engineering Design (Rising 7th)
Jul. 12, 2018—This morning we built and tested our first prototypes! We learned a lot through our first building and testing prototypes. For building, we learned a lot about how hard it is to actually assemble a prototype if you didn’t keep assembly in mind when designing. We talked about some tricks to make assembly easier when...
Summer Career Connections at SAVY 2018: Session 4, Day 4 – Think Like a Lawyer (Rising 7th)
Jul. 12, 2018—One day left of Think Like a Lawyer! Our class has really come a long way in understanding and applying legal rules since the beginning of the week. Today we covered Torts, which can be summarized as noncriminal, wrongful conduct. Unlike Contracts—the law governing people entering into relationships voluntarily—Torts is the law governing how strangers...
Summer Career Connections at SAVY 2018: Session 4, Day 3 – Engineering Design (Rising 7th)
Jul. 11, 2018—This morning we finished our first designs! It was a real challenge learning how to use a CAD program and how to design for laser cutting, but we pulled through and designed some really good gliders. These parts will be laser cut tonight so we can test tomorrow. In preparation for our testing, we learned...
Summer Career Connections at SAVY 2018: Session 4, Day 3 – Think Like a Lawyer (Rising 7th)
Jul. 11, 2018—Three down, two to go in Think Like a Lawyer. We did our second round of logic games today, and overall, the class is improving. Today’s problem was about scheduling movies and our class got faster and did a better job today than yesterday applying the rules. I bet that tomorrow, they’ll be even better. Today’s...
Summer Career Connections at SAVY 2018: Session 4, Day 2 – Engineering Design (Rising 7th)
Jul. 10, 2018—Today we focused on the “Design” step of the engineering design cycle. This morning we went over some basic fluid dynamics. We started with learning Bernoulli’s Principle (and the incompressible flow equation), and saw how lots of people incorrectly apply it to explain how planes fly. After we debunked the equal transit theory, we learned...
Summer Career Connections at SAVY 2018: Session 4, Day 2 – Think Like a Lawyer (Rising 7th)
Jul. 10, 2018—Day two of Think Like a Lawyer is a wrap. We began today by wrapping up with Article III of the Constitution and the discretionary doctrines of standing, mootness and ripeness. This was also a great opportunity to discuss President Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh. After this review, our class got its first taste...
Summer Career Connections at SAVY 2018: Session 4, Day 1 – Engineering Design (Rising 7th)
Jul. 9, 2018—Hello SAVY Parents! Today we learned about the engineering design cycle! This morning we created marshmallow towers out of dried spaghetti (the tallest being 28.25 inches) to learn the importance of testing. This is a common design challenge posed to lots of groups, including students, entrepreneurs, and engineers. Ask your student which group tends to...
Summer Career Connections at SAVY 2018: Session 4, Day 1 – Think Like a Lawyer (Rising 7th)
Jul. 9, 2018—We learned a lot on our first day in Think Like a Lawyer, and we set strong Constitutional foundations for the rest of this week at SAVY. We began with the beginning—Article I of the Constitution—which details the role of the legislature. A lot of our early reading was review. We reminded ourselves that we...