The 5th Year Computer Science students presented their Analytics projects on Monday, 1st April, to Hugo Rowsome, Project Manager of Scifest, Ms Gordon, Mr. Fennell and Ms O'Kelly. Stratford College is one of the 40 Phase 1 schools selected to teach the new Leaving Certificate subject, Computer Science.
As part of the Leaving Certificate Computer Science curriculum, students have to work on four group projects called Applied Learning Tasks (ALTs).
The 5th years presented their ALT 2 projects, which focused on Analytics. The four projects analysed:
Students had to work out an hypothesis on a social issue that they were interested in. They then downloaded a related dataset, read it into a Python file and from there they codeed the following mathematical functions - the mean, the median, the mode and the frequency. With these functions they generated information from their data set to analyse their hypothesis.
Ms O'Kelly
Stratford kicked off it's Science Week activities at the whole school assembly on Monday with the first of many daily quizzes! So far 1st years have had a Young Environmentalist Awards Ideas Factory Workshop, TYs had an engineer from SSE Eirtricity explaining how to build off-shore wind turbines and there's more to come for the rest of the week ...
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Well done to the U19 Boys basketball team who reached the semi-finals against Rockbrook on Tuesday 10th November. In a closely fought match, Stratford lost 41-39 - so, so close!
Major congratulations to the U16 Boys basketball team who won 52-36 against Firhouse on Monday 9th November!
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On Monday, 9th November all the 1st Year Computer Studies students gathered in the Computer Lab to take part in the Young Environmentalist Awards kick-off workshop - an Ideas Factory workshop in fact! Sarah from ECO-UNESCO visited the class to explain the steps to enter this competition and to start brainstorming ideas.
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