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1. Bowen Song is sanding a piece of acrylic plastic which he plans
to make into a clock. This was the 6th graders’ first time creating a
product in Design class. 2. Mr. Francois is teaching Ivy Kim where
to mark before drilling a hole for the clock mechanism. 3. Ikoi
Okagaki calculates the angles for the placement of the digits on
the clock face. 4. Ashley Nam is cutting out unit specific terms and
writing the definitions of each for her Biology class. The unit was
about Energy; this activity was to help them memorize unit vocab-
ulary. 5. David Cho finalizes his acrylic piece after investigating the
different materials available. The sixth-graders learned valuable
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information about the Design Cycle during this project, incluing
the basics of Investigation and Planning. 6. John Tuohy is partici-
pating in an activity for his Biology class. Their unit focused on the
transfer of heat and the different types of energy. 7. Gupta Nirvika
and Vishnoi Khushi are listening attentively to the presentation in
Biology class. The presentation, presented by their classmates,
was about radiation, conduction, and convection. 8. Jha Abhinav,
Jayden Cho, and Emily Keum are playing math games specifically
given by Mr. Chiang. The game was practice for the students to
solve equations in order to find patterns.