In the EcoColumn project, students in Mrs. Dean’s AP Environmental Science class design, build, and monitor the interconnected chambers of an “EcoColumn”. Each student becomes an expert in one of the three environments: aquatic, decomposition, or terrestrial. Measurements and adjustments are made to create a healthy system. This week we started observing the changes in these …
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Jan 27
NASA WISH Scholars Program
NASA is accepting applications until noon CST Monday, Feb. 3, for its 2014 Women in STEM High School (WISH) Aerospace Scholars program, in which high school junior girls can jump-start their future careers by exploring possibilities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
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Jan 24
Alex’s Wish
Magnet sophomore Alex Harte was diagnosed with T-Cell Lymphoblastic Lymphoma on June 19, 2013. Since then he’s been through countless treatments to get him on the road to recovery, which has even allowed him to come back to CHS to attend a limited schedule when he’s feeling well enough to do so. As part of …
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Jan 22
National Youth Science Camp
The NATIONAL YOUTH SCIENCE CAMP is an honors program for two high achieving high school students from each state in the nation and others from around the world. This residential summer experience is held in a rustic setting in West Virginia’s eastern mountains and has honored and challenged more than 5,000 participants since it began …
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Dec 19
December Mini-Symposium
In December of each year we host a smaller version of the full-blown, 9-12th grade research Symposium we put on in May of each year. This mini-event is a presentation of the undersclassmen’s first phase of their research. We enlist the help of our upperclassmen and recent graduates who act as panelists to offer constructive feedback in …
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Dec 03
Geometry Turkey Constructions!
Here are our freshmen working on their turkey constructions in geometry. Most turkeys have an ominous fate over Thanksgiving break, but hopefully these turkeys will be coming to life with some creative coloring and design.
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Nov 26
Caesar Videos!
Sophomore Magnet students worked to interpret scenes from Julius Caesar and update it with a new theme while retaining basic plot and tone. In the process they learned about storyboarding, screen play writing, and working with a team to make/edit a video: Bill and Ted’s Gotham Problem / Inception Caesar , High School Musical Caesar, and Hunger Games …
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Nov 13
“Table Reading” of Julius Caesar Video Project Script!
Sophomore magnet students use Chromebooks to do a table reading of a draft of a shared screenplay they’ve written together for the Julius Caesar video assignment. As they read through the document, they digitally dialogue and make edits via the shared Drive document they’ve created.
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Mar 12
Outliers
Magnet students attempt to pick up with chopsticks as many jelly beans as possible in 30 seconds to unpack Malcolm Gladwell’s ideas about practice and opportunity in his chapter on The 10000 Hour Rule. Student designed and taught lesson.
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