Bridge Building @ Notre Dame

Next week, here in Notre Dame Regional Secondary the physics classes will be building bridges. They will also be having a contest to compete with eachother. For which bridge(s) are strong, stable and have followed the restrictions. Each bridge will be measured by how heavy the bridge can hold the weight. At the end, the competitors will be getting prizes based on their bridge. The 2000 Winner and current record holder is Matthew Sullivan; 209. 4 kg. Not only have there been records but there are also bridges with disasters. Sponsors for the bridge building contest are Collings Johnston Inc., British Columbia Institute of Technology, Bridge Ink and many others.

Vancouver is the city of many interesting bridges, here's my favorite:
The Skytrain Bridge, New Westminster-Surrey BC. Built at 1986 for Skytrain transit.

Here are two links: Contest Page, Past Photos

One interesting site is Bridges of Paris, this is found at the homepage near the bottom in the list of additional links.

eBay & kijiji

Web Form

Multi-Form Project

By using Visual Basics, the whole entire class including me have each created our own multi-form project. Each multi-form project is different for it has a different theme. In each multi-form project you would find different applications/forms that we have worked on from the past with different styles; buttons, color and different layouts!! For my project, my theme was graffiti and I added the forms; Rocket, Calculator, Guesser, Acronym, Paint, and the Time. Each form works correctly. For my project, I added an easter egg. My easter egg, has simple notes about graffiti and a few of the famous graffiti artists!!Overall, this project, I quite enjoyed it and found out new techniques/ways that I never knew before!

OLPC Project Opinions

This website contains both positive and negative opinions based on the OLPC XO Laptop. It is also recently posted. As you click this website you will find many opinions that may be happening with your own OLPC Laptop. The website is:http://www.olpcnews.com/laptops/xo1/xo_laptop_peace_corps_volunteer.html. .

Recieved the OLPC XO Laptop

April 1st, we've received the OLPC laptop and so far two of our classmates have or are testing it out. So far there are just minor issues that were spotted by Eliza with the OLPC XO Laptop. Yet the solution is being researched on! From time to time everyone will be able to get an opportunity to use and or try the OLPC XO Laptop.

Java

As we are finishing up with C++, we are beginning to use Java and have started the program "Hello World". So far Java is pretty much different compared to C++. For it uses different coding. So far we will be continuing with Java for this year.