Summer is up head!
Here are a few links if you are intesterested in sending your child to a summer science camp.
Check it out.
Summer Science Camps near Los Angeles – Local Results
Rock Star Summer Camp – Westwood Summer Camps for kids at the Savvy Source
TOMORROW AT RECESS!!!
Available for $1 during recess
PIZZA LUNCH IS OVER
Thank you to everyone who
participated in the Monday Pizza Lunches!!!!
Special Thanks to The Morra Family from De Pasquale’s Restaurant for making all those pizzas, our volunteers, donors and to 6th Grade Mom’s Heesook Cho (Brendon) & Hyekung Suh (Casey) for coming every Monday since September 17th to help prepare and serve the pizza lunches.
Don’t Forget….
PACK YOUR CHILD A LUNCH ON MONDAYS!
NO SCHOOL
No school Friday & Monday! Enjoy your weekend. Remember our U.S. men and women who have died in military service to our county.
Memorial Day
Memorial Day is a United States Federal Holiday that is observed on the last Monday of May (observed in 2008 on May 26). It was formerly known as Decoration Day. This holiday commemorates U.S. men and women who have died in military service to their country. It began first to honor Union soldiers who died during the American Civil War. After World War I, it was expanded to include those who died in any war or military action. One of the longest standing traditions is the running of the Indianapolis 500, which has been held in conjunction with Memorial Day since 1911. It is also traditionally viewed as the beginning of summer by many, since many schools are dismissed around Memorial Day.
Walk A thon approaches us!
Benefits of Walking – How Walking Reduces Health Risks
“Happy Mother’s Day”
“Happy Mother’s Day” means more
Than have a happy day.
Within those words lie lots of things
We never get to say.
It means I love you first of all,
Then thanks for all you do.
It means you mean a lot to me,
And that I honor you.
But most of all, I guess it means
That I am thinking of
Your happiness on this, your day,
With pleasure and with love
Science Trick
Do you know what is used for this cool trick?
Speed Racer & Iron Man: It’s All about Science!
The technology for the individual features already exists, including military drones to send for help. But engineering, testing and producing all the car’s special features would cost millions of dollars, she added.FULL STORY
“Iron Man,” the upcoming movie from Marvel Studios, will be on screens around the world in a few weeks. In the movie, a genius businessman invents a suit of armor with extraordinary strength. People everywhere have been looking at the previews, asking “Who will be first with a real powered-armored suit like Iron Man’s?”
Well, exoskeleton fans, we’ve got some real contenders warming up.
The Sarcos XOS exoskeleton is an impressive device. The suit allows the user to endlessly pull weight; two hundred-pound pulldowns are easy. The user of the suit feels only about ten of those two hundred pounds.
Picking up and moving 70 pound cannisters is just as easy. How does it work? The machine follows the movements of the user, sampling the user’s behavior thousands of times per second. A built-in computer performs the monitoring, and amplifies the user’s strength with the robotic exoskeleton (see video).
However, Japan’s HAL exoskeleton is not only an impressive device, but will soon go into production for sale. Cyberdyne Inc will produce 500 HAL suits each year, starting in October of 2008.
The fifteen kilogram battery-powered suit detects muscle movements through electrical signal flows on the skin surface. These currents are picked up by the sensors and sent to the computer, which translates the nerve signals into signals of its own for controlling electric motors at the hips and knees of the exoskeleton, effectively amplifying muscle strength. HAL stands for “hybrid assistive limb”; HAL-5 is the latest version of the suit (see video).
The two real-life exoskeletons and the movie version are compared in a graphic.
(This Science Fiction in the News story used with permission of Technovelgy.com)
Editor’s Note: See PopSci.com’s feature Building the Real Iron Man.
Wish List-Ms. Bhakta
Good Shepherd: Nurturing the Mind, Body and Soul
Wish List-
USB Flashdrives
2-3: Headset with microphone (to create podcasts) see link below
http://www.officedepot.com/catalog/search.do;jsessionid=0000K9GKeUmrW828aAX0rbGZjAA:13ddpq53l?fkey=null&Ntt=microphone+headset
speakers for computer/smartboard
science lab materials (see me)
Good Shepherd Catholic School: Where academic
success, good character and compassionate service
makes a difference in our students’ lives.
