6th Grade, Projects, School

The Night of the Notables

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April 25, 2012 (Wednesday)

 

Pythia, oracle of Delphi
Pythia, priestess of Delphi

The “Night of the Notables” is a special school project to highlight outstanding characters in history.  For this project, AMS selected the character of Pythia, priestess and oracle of Delphi, wearing a traditional light blue chiton.

AMS said, “What we will do is on one night, everybody will dress up as a historical character that lived in BCE (Before Common Era).  We will also make a 1 to 2 minute speech about our person and present a tri-fold board.”

The chiton costume was hand-made from an old sheet and assembled with bobby pins.

Pondering the fate of Delphi

 

 

6th Grade, Projects, School, Science Fair

Project 7: My Social Network

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My Social Network – Graph

AUTHORS:  Bovril and Radiance

STATUS:Completed

This project is to develop a social network and submit it as a science fair project. The topics covered includes: social sciences (social network analysis), math (graph theory, statistics and matrix operations), and communication. Part of the objective will be to discover the alphas and cliques within a limited network of friends and acquaintances (no actual names will be used).

INTRODUCTION

People are, by nature, social animals.  This is of such importance that their connections and relationships, their social network, defines who they are.  Families, clubs, church groups and friend circles are examples of social networks.  In fact, any activity where people have to come together and do something as a group can become a social network.

Recently, many websites have been created to utilise the social nature of humans.  For example: Facebook, LinkedIn, Amazon.com and Ebay and even Schoology, allow people to

  1. find each other
  2. share ideas
  3. share likes and dislikes
  4. share experiences and photos
  5. allow business to market their products

and so many more.

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6th Grade, Math, Projects, School, Science Fair

Science Fair Project – My Social Network

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January 12, 2012

It’s always exciting to see all the projects presented at the Science Fair.  It was a huge turnout and there was also an exhibit in the Cafetorium by Tesla, USGS, Marine Science Institute and other organizations.

Happy Graphistas
Happy Graphistas

Bovril and Radiance’s project evaluator is an entrepreneur who founded a successful company using an approach very similar to what they’d presented.  His comments were encouraging and include “My Special Project!”, “Fun problem”, “Clear hypothesis”, “A very rich area”, “I though the kids had a handle on the basics…”.  He commented that he’d like to see more data, lots more data “next year”.  Seems he’ll be looking for more in 7th grade.  So exciting!


Other parents and administrators said; “This is cutting edge”, “This is the perfect middle school project” and the principal wondered if this technique could help him design the sports program.

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