Saturday, December 20, 2014

IB DP Students present on Ebola

Juniors and seniors enrolled in International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IB DP) sciences at WAIS held a special presentation event at the school to share their work and ideas on the Global Effects of the Ebola Outbreak.

The special public presentation involved groups of students in biology, chemistry and physics working as teams as they brainstormed, and created comprehensive plans focused on team research, exploration and design related to Ebola.

Read the rest of the article on SbisdSnapshots.blogspot.com



Saturday, December 13, 2014

Important: MySBISD.com Accounts going away

Secondary students will no longer have @mysbisd.com accounts, and will instead have @mysbisd.org accounts. This does include a few new features. However, and most importantly, any files, emails, or sites you've created, worked on, or received on your mysbisd.com account will be deleted on December 19th.

You will have to transfer over any work that you want to keep.

Please see the video on YouTube on how to transfer files in Google Drive to the new account. Please see the video on Vimeo on how to transfer a Google Site to the new account.

You may also find the following article from lifehacker useful:
How to Migrate your Entire Google Account to a New One

Friday, December 12, 2014

Students Participate in Hour of Code

More than 20% of WAIS students participated in Hour of Code. Many of those that did, participated in multiple hours as well. Over half of sixth and eighth grade participated, as well as a fair number of high school students in tech/design courses and many in upper level math courses. See our Hour of Code page for examples of just a few of the ways our students participated.

Hour of Code started as a US initiative to increase exposure and awareness of Computer Science, and quickly became a worldwide event, across 180 countries. The demand for computer scientists and programmers is expanding much, much faster than our society creates. This isn't because its hard or because the pay isn't good. Programmers and computer scientists make good pay and have a lot of benefits. The bigger issue is a lack of awareness for students.

Many countries around the world begin teaching computer science in elementary, some at the same time they begin teaching children how to read. At most US schools, students are lucky if they have the option to take a computer science course by the time they get to high school. Only around 10% of high school students nationwide have the option of taking a computer science course, because roughly only 1 in 10 high schools in the US offer Computer Science.

Sure, not every student is going to become a programmer, but not every student is going to become a scientist, writer, historian, or mathematician either. Let your student try an Hour of Code; because they should at least have the opportunity to try programming. Learn more about Hour of Code at Code.org.
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