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WED OCT. 8: AGA LEGO NIGHT
Wednesday, October 8, 6-9 pm: AGA Lego Night
with MADE
Art Gallery of Alberta
Free with Gallery Admission
Watch art and Lego collide with exciting building challenges inspired by our current exhibitions! Join in on the brick-building fun with a collaborative mural, copy-cat art projects and much more!
October
Wednesday, October 1 | Nocturne Preview Night
Wednesday, October 8 | Lego Night
Wednesday, October 15 | Video Night
Wednesday, October 22 | Late Night Wednesday
Wednesday, October 29 | Drawing Night
November
Wednesday, November 5 | Poetry Night
Wednesday, November 12 | Games Night
– See more at: http://www.youraga.ca/late-night-wednesdays/#sthash.COPnycgJ.dpuf
HUM7: An hour at the Silver Birch Lodge, 9-10am
Original 6: The Toronto Maple Leafs won the Stanley Cup five times between 1944–45 and 1950–51
The grade 7s are going to be conducting fieldwork at the Silver Birch Lodge this upcoming Wednesday, Oct. 10th. We will be taking oral testimony and stories of Canadians who lived through the Dirty 30s, WWII, 50s, 60s, and until today.
We are asking for parents to equip students with a phone with a recording option, or other recording device such as a camera with video, to capture the interviews, however this is optional.
We are also asking the grade 7s to dress up nicely. Time to break out those blazers, ties, shiny shoes, party dresses, nylons, bows, and cardigan sweaters. We know the Seniors came from a time of a strict dress code – no jeans in school! – and they’d like to see us look our best. Also feel welcome to wear any historical clothing of the 50s-80s. I’ll be in a poodle skirt in all likelihood! 🙂
Fieldtrip forms are due Monday Oct. 8th!
SONGS FOR THE FOX
MEME
LEGO COMPETITION
Edmonton
LEGO COMPETITION WITH MADE
Saturday, September 27, 2014
Time: | Sep 27 11:00 AM – 1:30 PM |
Location: | Art Gallery of Alberta 2 Sir Winston Churchill Square Edmonton, Alberta Edmonton T5J 2C1 |
Contact Info: | View Website |
Our Lego competition is back with another great challenge for all ages! Sign up your team to build AGA’s building from the past, present or future.
The Death of Firefox
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/116885-the-death-of-firefox
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“It doesn’t look good for Firefox: Almost every month for the last three years, Firefox has lost ground to Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Safari. For most of 2009 the trend was fairly straight as it fended off Chrome and nibbled away at IE, but between 2010 and today Firefox has lost a third of its market share, from a worldwide peak of around 30% down to 20%….
But is that really a problem? The entire reason that Firefox was such a success is that it appealed to the geeks and power users who weren’t happy with Internet Explorer 6′s 95% share of the market. Microsoft effectively put the dampers on web innovation for five years. Firefox was conceived with one purpose in mind: To revitalize the web.
In that regard, it has succeeded. The web, with three browsers vying for supremacy, has never been more exciting. Within a few short years of launching, Firefox had shown the world what CSS and a gutsy JavaScript engine were capable of. Firefox triggered the HTML5 revolution. It is because of Firefox that Metro-style Windows 8 apps can be written in JavaScript. And ironically enough, it is because of Firefox that Chrome was created…
What will happen now, assuming Microsoft and Google continue to barrage each other with their full arsenal of cannon, is that Firefox will gradually fade into a position of feared, revered veterancy — kind of like an aging grandfather who sits on a rocking chair in the middle of the World Wide Web with a loaded shotgun. It might even get to the stage where Firefox has to occasionally loose some crazy feature onto the web, just to remind everyone that it’s still alive. Eventually, if Microsoft really is serious about open web technologies and Google does no evil, Firefox might even die.
But, having completed everything you set out to do in life, is death really that awful?”
Brace Yourself
NHS 1st Parliament – First Reading Sept 17
Case Competition: Adventure Trip Logistics
- Locate a place in Alberta for an Adventure-trip proposal.
- Brainstorm a list of expenses.
- Estimate the cost of the trip expenses for everybody
- Find out the ration of how much it would cost per person
- See if this is on-par with the current $350 pp estimate.
- Compare 2 different motels or campgrounds to stay
- Find the price for the group
- Find the ratio of price per person per night for accomodations
- What is the ratio of rooms needed for the group for both boys and girls?
- What percent of time should be spent on a) fun b) learning c) rest (zzzz) d) cooking/eating
- How long will it take to travel there, with rest breaks? (what is the rate of travel in average km/hr?)
- What is the rate of fuel consumption?