Arts News, January 30

Kurt Robinson, innovation and art teacher
January 30, 2020

Back to the Future

Using Microsoft MakeCode Arcade which is a web-based code editor, middle school students in the games programming arts elective are creating retro arcade games. We have delved into six of the most common level design patterns present in 2D videogames. Who needs 4K (4096 x 2160 pixels) when you can create a game with a screen size of 160×120 pixels and 16 available colors? Although it might seem simple this 2D game engine has sprites, platformer-style collisions, tile maps, and particle systems. Students are learning how hard it is to program a simple 2D game and gaining an appreciation of how much thought goes into creating one level of the games they like to play.

By John O'Neill, director of athletics |

September 22, 2023

Belmont Day began the interscholastic season with six wins on Tuesday afternoon. The cross country, varsity football, boys’ varsity soccer, and varsity volleyball teams all opened up at home in front of joyful crowds and sunny skies. Cross country outran…

BDS

September 22, 2023

Update: Special Delivery from the White House!   In the spring, our first grade students (now awesome second graders!) learned how to write and mail letters as part of a letter-writing unit. They learned the structure of a letter, how…

BDS

September 15, 2023

Second Graders See Themselves, Classmates In second grade, we have been working on building our community and using our collective intelligence to create norms and guidelines to ensure friendship, fun, and learning for all. After reading This Plus That, Life’s…

By John O'Neill, director of athletics |

September 15, 2023

After a handful of years as an intramural sport, volleyball is taking its show on the road and will take on interscholastic competition this year. The transition has moved the sport from the winter to fall season and attracted 23…
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