Inquiring Minds Want To Know...

How can we get a machine to search a debris field for victims or explosives?  This year, 6 ^th grade students are testing their programming skills to make robots travel as predicted.  (This is not such an easy task!)  The class paired with the Air Force Research Lab-La Luz Academy to build robot kits, and all 4 teams hope to be invited to compete in the Robot Challenge to be held later in March. 



Are plant and animal cells similar?  Can forensic scientists use hair samples to identify possible criminals?  7 ^th grade students practiced their observational skills examining cells and hair samples under compound light microscopes.  These students are getting ready for future biology classes and the work world.



You’ve just been elected Mayor of the city.  What do you do next?  Running a city is no easy task, as 7 ^th and 8 ^th grade students at St. Charles School found out this fall.  Their participation in the Future City Regional competition at UNM required them to design an Age-Friendly City.  They ran simulations on SIM CITY, researched and reported on the many problems elderly people face getting around in a city, and then built a scale model city incorporating their solutions.  7th graders Isabella Sanchez, Sophia Buchholz, Matthew Barreras, and Janessa Cazares designed the city, Cielos Pintados, and won an award for “The Best Use of Outdoor Space”, while Gothum City, created by 8th graders Mya Yannoni, Antonia Mondragon, Teresa Apodaca, and Matthew Roach won a prize for “The Most Vibrant City”.