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Minecraft Challenge

This years Minecraft Challenge theme has already been announced as: Beyond the Stars: The Ultimate Alien World Challenge.

Comox Valley Schools Minecraft Challenge – Learn71

Our grade 4-7 Minecraft Club will likely start sometime in December. Make sure to listen to the announcements for more details.

Hackergals

A new year of Hackergals has commenced. We have now met once so far this year and have a group of 3 committed students. There is still time if you would like to join us. This year we will be working through courses such as: Introduction to Scratch, Adventure Style Game Design, Introduction to Python and more. After Christmas we will be working on a 9 week project for this years Hackathon!

Check out a winning project from last year by Brin and Calina.

Check out the game they created: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1311185467

Battle of the Books

This years Comox Valley Schools Grade 6/7 Battle of the Books has commenced. The district Teacher Librarians chose the following 6 books: Bloom by Kenneth Oppel, Building 903 by Lois Lowry, Alone by Megan E. Freeman, No Fixed Address by Susin Nielsen, Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B Alston, and Touching Grass by Kristy Jackson.

Student have from now through the end of January to get their reading done and then we’ll be meeting with the other teams in Early February to compete.

Aspen Monthly Newspaper

Congratulations to all students who submitted entries to the Second Annual Aspen Bookclub Competition. The winning entry from each grade is pictured below!