Students in the Moab Charter School Build-it! Club completed their culminating experience: Making custom wooden boxes to put their stuff in! They used their skills in measuring and planning, and used mechanical and chemical means of attachment (screws and glue). Thanks to McElhaney Construction for donating beautiful wood and helping cut it to size!
Middle School students have been monitoring the construction of the new school using a stop-motion camera mounted on the roof of the old school. “It is really fun to watch the construction sped up fast so the workers look like busy ants or bees!” said one student.
The Technology Department will be adding some of the stop-motion clips to the new Grand County School District website soon, so everyone can see. Students, staff and parents are all really excited to get a new school.
BEACON Middle School Robotics students recently participated in the First Lego League City Shaper tournament. They explored the Lego Core Values, concocted a solution to a city building problem (handling an overload of traffic on main street), and went to the FLL Tournament at Emery High School to compete with 10 other teams.
BEACON Lego Robotics (team name: Thunderbirds) won a first-place trophy for their creative project!
They met with Engineers and the Moab City Building Inspector to get feedback and refine the project. Their
solution considered dividing traffic into two one-way streets and building a second bridge on the west side of town to accommodate commercial and through-traffic vehicles who do not need to access the downtown area.
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles club wrapped up with a lesson about Momentum and Friction and answered the question: Why does a train take so long to stop? We played with spinners, spheres, and discs, and built our own model railway using a fun kit borrowed from Grand Area Mentoring.
