STEAM 10 December Updates

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Mohan Edith Guan
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For the past month, the STEAM 10 teams have been working hard on continuing to build and develop their projects, and they are really starting to take shape! Let’s check up on everyone’s progress, and we here at Emma Willard wish you a most joyful holiday season🎄

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Discovering the Titanic

  • What’s been going well: doing background research, designing storyboards, collaborating with each other
  • What’s been challenging: coding an actual functional game
  • Next step: using YouTube tutorials made by professional game designers to develop coding skills

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Growing Flowers with a Hydroponic System

  • What’s been going well: replanting the Cosmos flowers, developing the self-watering system
  • What’s been challenging: all the flowers died during Thanksgiving break, so we had to re-do everything
  • Next steps: reflecting to make sure we don’t make the same mistakes again, e.g., moving the plants to a cooler room

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Archives Podcast

  • What’s been going well: finding documents about Emma Willard
  • What’s been challenging: summarizing the documents, working when the archivist isn’t there
  • Next steps: using close-reading and compare-contrasting to synthesize the documents, doing research independently online

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EWS STEAM

  • What’s been going well: making the monthly Google Forms
  • What’s been challenging: creating the subpages and styling them with CSS — we ran into a huge bug because we put the code for one subpage as the template code
  • Next steps: use online tutorials and forums to learn to use WordPress and CSS

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