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Reflections – Failure is an Option

Posted on 21 June 2024
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As I look at the successes and failures of our students – and my own successes and failures – I reflect on the thoughts of Buzz Aldrin, an American astronaut who walked on the moon… Adapted from “Failure IS an Option: Lessons I Learned From a Man Who Walked the Moon”...Read more

Putin’s War – There is No Place for Violence in a Modern World

Posted on 6 April 2022
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Yesterday, watching a special presentation of Mr. Zelinskyy’s comedy show Servant of the People (on Vision TV Tuesday to Thursday at 10:00 PM or streaming on VisionTV.ca and Netflix). Lyn and I lamented at the stark differences in Kyiv then and now. Though life imitates art in this case, Putin...Read more

Afghan Girls Robotics Team

Posted on 18 August 2021
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“Our neighbours thought I was the reason for my father’s death. They said that if I had not been on the robotics team, this might not have happened to him.” “I always listen to my own calling. I think I must represent not only my own voice and beliefs, but...Read more

You would have been 36 today…

Posted on 24 April 2021
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Nichole, we all miss you. You left us too soon. I wish you had reached out more so we could help with your internal struggles. When I read this, I am reminded of you. When I die Give what’s left of me away To children And old men that wait...Read more

First Robotics / Christina McAuliffe Silver Dollar

Posted on 17 March 2021
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First Robotics collaborated with the US Mint to create a comemorative coin featuring a teacher lost in a space shuttle explosion, Cristina McAuliffe. Notice the powerful message at the top of this silver dollar (and the first robotics logo)… Mine just arrived today.Read more

Vimy

Posted on 11 November 2019
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by Dr. Peter Gehbauer, Captain, Royal Canadian Artillery (Inspired by In Flanders Fields by Dr. John McCrae, Lieutenant Colonel, Canadian Army Medical Corps) Beyond barbed wire row on row in trenches, bunkers lies the foe. Pockmarked landscape guns have touched mixed earth and death, outreaching hands, bayonets...Read more