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This Just In: Fingerboards are Getting Popular Again?!?!
This Just In: Fingerboards are Getting Popular Again?!?!
By Jayden Molina
Fingerboards are getting popular again.
This is because people are customizing them into better fingerboards, as well as adding custom fingerboards parks to do tricks. Or they're just doing tricks on anything.
At the school named BUGS, there's a kid who takes his teck decks to school and lets people use it. However, you could by teckdecks at Target and Walmart and then customize it
(Fingerboard parks look like this but smaller)
(fingerboards looks like this)
Club Scout: Art Honor Society
By Mark Burton
The Art Honor Society is a club managed by Ms. Roxanne. They meet on Fridays in room 357.
Members of the AHS are currently working on a project for Women's History month using Photoshop. They work on a variety of projects including Photoshop, watercolor, and collages.
Ms. Roxanne lets everyone use their imaginations and think freely. Elizabeth from 601 said, ¨It is organized but we can learn and be creative.¨
The club is fun, engaging, and organized. It is fun for anybody who likes art and a little bit of organized calm.
What I Learned at Sunworks
By August Miller
Have you ever been to the NY Sunworks Youth Conference? If so, what did you learn there? NY Sunworks is a non-profit business that holds a Youth Conference at the Javits Center in West Manhattan every year. For the 15th annual Youth Conference, I attended and learned a lot about many schools doing many different experiments for the past year. This article will cover 3 of these amazing presentations that these schools did so let's plunge into the world of hydroponics!
For the first presentation, I will be covering the Harbor Middle School (HMS) about their idea of how the age of swiss chard plants affects their salt tolerance. HMS students Levi and Hadley attempted to answer this question by using baby swiss chard and adult swiss chard in their experiment, putting them in salt water for 6-7 weeks (they meant the 67 joke for younger audiences) to see which grows better. After 6-7 weeks passed, the results were clear: adult swiss chard grew significantly better than baby swiss chard did, to the point where the baby swiss chard started to wither and die. HMS’s experiment was a complete success. Based on this knowledge, future plans are to create little floating gardens on the Hudson River filled with adult swiss chard. All in all, this was one of the most successful experiments that I saw at the conference.
For the second presentation, yours truly will be covering PS.34’s experiment about loofahs possibly having the ability to be used as a growing substrate. PS.34’s students Isla, Grayson, and Blake tested this theory by planting basil into a loofah for several weeks. After the time had completely passed, the basil grew big and strong and got to fulfill its potential. They did this experiment because rockwool can’t be reused, but they wanted to know if a loofah can even grow plants and then later be reused to continue growing plants. If so, everyone across the globe should use a loofah instead of rockwool. However, if it does not work, they can just say that you can use a loofah in addition to rockwool to grow plants in a hydroponics lab.
For the final presentation, I shall be covering a special presentation made by the CEO of the Javits center themselves: Joyce! Joyce covered all of the sustainable activities that they have at the Javits center, such as beehives, a green roof, and many more! They also talked about how when it rains, they capture the water to reuse for future needs. Their goal for the future of sustainability is spreading these ways to other parts of the NYC community so we can all be sustainable and combat the challenges ahead related to climate change.
In conclusion, the NY Sunworks conference showed me important sustainable ideas that we can make the world better and can combat climate change and other fossil fuel disasters. All in all, the most interesting presentation was from HMS since theirs was the most thoughtful and they sufficiently explained what their plans were for the future. So, what would you do for the future of sustainability?
Celebrating National Poetry Month @ BUGS
Celebrating National Poetry Month @ BUGS
By Mark Burton
Videos by Mr. Elliott
On May 7th, I went to the 8th grade poetry share hosted by Mr. Elliott. It was meant for 8th graders, but one surprise 6th grader was included! I have exclusive interviews with teachers and students, and a LOT of poem descriptions. I hope you enjoy it!
In anticipation of the event, I got there a little early to see how people were preparing for it. Some looked nervous, stressed; but some people also looked pretty excited. Ms. Bri said that she was “looking forward to connecting with students through poetry."
Before the share, Mr. Elliott did a quick presentation and told us that, “You have to take risks to succeed.”
The teachers shared poems first, and one poem that stuck out to me was the poem If by Radyard Kipling, presented by Ms.Chough.
The first student who shared was our special invite 6th grader, Izzy!
When I asked her what she was feeling when going up to the stage, she said, “I was nervous but excited."
Other notable presenters included Ms. Rebeca, Ms. Sacoh, Dexter Jacoby, Sena Wilker and Abigail Francois, Ms. Breanne, and many, many more.
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