After studying the parts and functions of microphones in their audio technology arts elective, seventh and eighth grade students headed to the Barn to put their knowledge into practice. Using graphite, wiring, 9-volt batteries, and paper cups, they engineered working model microphones that could capture and transmit sound. Once their
Six members of the Belmont Day faculty kicked off the summer with a trip to the Bay Area to challenge and expand their ways of thinking around teaching innovation, design, and engineering. The team—Annie Fuerst, director of technology and innovation, Maggie Small, seventh grade science teacher, Vaniecia Skinner, fifth grade
Congratulations to seventh graders Liv Dawson and Lucy Yin for being named runners-up in this year’s Micro:bit Do Your Bit Challenge. Liv and Lucy chose to tackle UN Global Goal 14: Life on Water, and specifically to target the sustainable fishing objective within that goal. Their project–the ‘Overfishing Weight Detector
on THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, due to weather.
