Six Nations Polytechnic STEAM Academy

Whole-person feedback in BrightSpace

Posted on 19 August 2019
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On the Instructional Leadership page, I affirm that “I believe we should build competencies — skills and knowledge of the curriculum — and the positive attitudes, ethical behaviours and growth mindset to be successful in life.” Feedback is an essential part of this. Nottingham and Larsson (2019) ask teachers to consider...Read more

Robotics and Best Practices

Posted on 16 August 2019
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Today a group from First Robotics Canada, Six Nations Polytechnic STEAM Academy and the Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic District School Board met to move FRC7509’s strategy forward for the 2019-2020 academic year. The meeting was productive and gave me both a lot to reflect on and to do. Chris Mara’s name came up...Read more

Robotics in 2019-2020

Posted on 13 August 2019
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STEAMTeamRobotics (FRC7509), and I as mentor, learned much in our rookie year, justifying our motto: Not bad for a rookie team! We won the off-season STEMley Cup Championship in the fall of 2018 in Hamilton. During spring 2019 official competitions, we made it to the quarter finals at the Humber...Read more

Hodinohso:ni` values

Posted on 12 August 2019
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On arrival at the Six Nations Polytechnic STEAM Academy, it became immediately apparent that this a different school. The level of respect and collegiality is much higher than anything experienced in public schools that I taught at. Underpinning the school culture are Hodinohso:ni` values.Read more

Gracious professionalism

Posted on 11 August 2019
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Members of STEAMTeamRobotics (FRC7509) increasingly learned to practice gracious professionalism. expressing their appreciation to MakeShift (FRC4039) for their much-valued mentorship and friendship.Read more

Robotics Careers

Posted on 11 August 2019
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Mikaela enthusiastically investigates mechanical engineering and robotics in this video starting at 10:45. Consider also this video of how robots are used to construct Tesla vehicles. URL: https://www.youtube.com/embed/8_lfxPI5ObM?rel=0″Read more

Mentoring, the cornerstone of First Robotics

Posted on 10 August 2019
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STEAMTeamRobotics (FRC7509) learned early of the value of mentoring. MakeShift (FRC4039) and its Mentor Matt Alderson, hosted our team at the RoboDome in October 2018. Read more

What STEAMTeamRobotics learned in their rookie year

Posted on 10 August 2019
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Here is a partial list of key things that members of STEAMTeamRobotics (FRC7509) learned during the 2018-2019 First Robotics season. We did great this season! Here are some lessons learned! pic.twitter.com/PKnFl2csUO — SNP STEAM Academy (@snpsteam) June 28, 2019 These videos (3 in the playlist) show STEAMTeamRobotics’ victory as part of...Read more

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