Grade 8 Students & Parents

Thank you for your interest in Sir Frederick Banting Secondary School Computer Science and Engineering courses. Please note that Banting has a full range of computer science courses available as well as the hands on Computer Engineering courses. Banting is also one of the few schools that has a robotics course as well as a award winning international robotics team that competes actively all over Ontario and some years in other countries! Please read below for specific information about grade 9 introduction course and other information of courses available here at Banting.

Grade 9 - is a hybrid course which contains Business & Computer Studies

• Students learn the basics of computer literacy.
• Available as an elective to meet graduation requirement for group 1 or as an elective.
• Available in french as the only french immersion elective in Grade 9.

Course Web Page for the grade 9 courses

• English Credit: BTT1O1 - Introduction to Computers
• French Credit: BTT1OX - Technologie de l'information

Pathways Available at Banting SS with regards to Computers & Computer Technology

There is two pathways, it is possible to do both if you carefully plan your course selections with your OSSD requirements.

• Computer Programming (Application and Software engineering)
• Computer Technology (Engineering - Robotics, Computer Repair, Networking, Electronics)
• Extracurricular Activity International Robotics FIRST Robotics Competition: Join Banting's Robotics Team 5870

More information below on each of these pathways.

Computer Programming (Application and Software engineering)- ICS Courses

1. Grade 10 - ICS2O - Computer Science
   • Language Learned: Visual Basic
     • Summative: Develop their own game.
   • Introduction to microcontrollers - Arduino
2. Grade 11 - ICS3U - Computer Science
   • Students build various pratical applications throughout the course
   • Language Learned: Java Programming
   • Students build there own fully developed game or application of there own design as the summative at the end of the course
3. Grade 12 - ICS4U - Computer Science
   • Language Learned: Advanced Java Programming
     • Summative: Create a mini software development firm in class and develop a full application (typically practical, mobile app or in-depth game.)
   • Course is setup as a software engineering with topics in project management as well as advanced data structures and object oriented programming.

Exemplars of Grade 9 & 10 & 11 Student Work:

1. Flash Animations- Grade 9
   • Time Lapse | Cake | Hypnotic | Butterfly
   • Voyage | Cooking | La Fille | Mario
2. Web Pages - Grade 9
   • Travelopia | Unofficial Friends Fan Page]

More Exemplars of Student work to follow and links will be updated shortly - Youtube videos etc.

Computer Technology (Engineering - Robotics, Computer Repair, Networking, Electronics)

1. Grade 11 - TEJ3M - Computer Engineering & Technology
   • This course can be taken in grade 10!!
     • Summative: Build a robot that can solve mazes, sumo wrestle and follow a line.
   • Computer Repair, Networking and Electronics
2. Grade 12 - TEJ4M - Computer Engineering
   • This course requires Grade 11 TEJ3M
   • Students go through more advanced topics then what was covered in TEJ3M
   • Students develop their own technology related prototype.
3. Grade 11 - TER3M - Robotics and Controls Systems
   • This course requires at least ICS2O, or ICS3U or TEJ3M
   • This course focuses on sensors and robotics controls (Arduino, Raspberry Pi)
   • Topics Include Manufacturing concepts, properties of material
     • 3D Printer, Thermoformering, Plastic Bending and Shaping.
   • The course builds multiple robots throughout the semester
   • Final summative is a prototype model of a FIRST Robotics sub system required for the Team 5870.