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Stratford celebrates Tech Week 2017
Subject Blogs, Science/Maths, Transition Year / 28 April 2017

Stratford celebrates Tech Week 2017

Tech Week 2017 was celebrated in Computer Studies classes from Monday, 24th April through to Friday, 28th April. Students got a chance to use Virtual Reality glasses, explore augmented reality, play music using Makey Makey, play Minecraft on Raspberry Pi's, work with our little Ozobot robot and most interestingly type on an old typewriter! TY students visited the exhibition "Humans need not apply" at the Science Gallery and created their own LED torches at a workshop in Makeshop.

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TY Computer Studies students being mentored by 3rd Year DIT Computer Studies students
Subject Blogs, Science/Maths, Transition Year / 13 February 2017

TY Computer Studies students being mentored by 3rd Year DIT Computer Studies students

A new and exciting partnership has just started between Stratford College TY Computer Studies class and 3rd Year Computer Science students from DIT Kevin Street. Over a series of five Friday mornings during February and March, a number of DIT Computer Science students are coming in to the TY Computer Studies class to mentor them in Python and Raspberry Pi. The DIT students are doing this as an elective module called "Computing in the Community".

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TY students compete in SciFest@Schools competition with Science projects
Subject Blogs, Science/Maths, Transition Year / 20 January 2017

TY students compete in SciFest@Schools competition with Science projects

In December the TY students competed in a SciFest@Schools competition with their Scratch coding projects. In January they competed in a second SciFest@Schools competition with Science projects organised by Mr. Fennell and Ms. O'Sullivan. The winning project by Lauren, Rebecca and Grace was to test if a genre of music influenced the growth of a plant. Find out the results by reading on!

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