Welcome to Mr. Karas' Technology Homepage 2009-2010
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Our KidWind turbine building team which took 2nd place and won $200
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Elizabeth was our overall CO2 winner for 09-10 with a speed of 31.03 mph
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Madison took 2nd place with a time of 28.26 mph
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Gina took third place with a nice speed of 27.21 mph
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Taylor and Rachel receive the NEED energy home improvement award
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Rachel and Taylor show off their 1st place winning wind turbine blades
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Congratulations to Nalina, Emily and Andrew for winning the 5th period wind turbine contest
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The winning team in 8th period was Dan and Noah with a school record 1.41 volts produced!
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Here is our new AMS Hockey Bot table
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Our Hockey Bots vie for the puck
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Students taking notes while others present their Energy PowerPoints to the class
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Renewable and Nonrenewable Energy Sources covered in our PointPower presentations
Technology Education is an integrating discipline that provides students with an opportunity to study the human-made world and to develop technological literacy as part of their fundamental education. Through design, build and test activities, students model solutions to real world problems and develop an understanding of technology of the past, present and future. Technology education is much more than just knowledge about computers and their application. Technology education programs engage learners in critical thinking as they design and develop products, systems and environments to solve practical problems. Technology Education...the bridge between the academic world and the Real World!
Congratulations to all the students that won their period's Wind Turbine Blade competition. Each student was awarded a Home Energy Efficiency gift box provided by Todd Rogers, Northeast Coordinator for NEED (National Energy Education Development) Project and National Fuel. Click on the picture to see the names of all the winners.
Congratulations to the 1st semester Co2 winners
New this year for the 8th graders is the building of the Hockey Bots! Yes, you read that correctly. 8th graders are going to go crazy building these fun little Bots then takin'em to the arena and scoring goals! Check out 1st and 2nd rotation pics in the slide show section!
7th graders are making those fast and furious Co2 dragsters. Another year of raaaacing in the hallways! Best of all we have a new track this year. We're hoping to decrease our time! Check out the 1st , 2nd and 3rd rotation pics in the slide show section!
Mega Kudos to the Wind Turbine team!!
We place 2nd at the competition held at the Buffalo Museum of Science and on top of that collected $200.00 and other prizes! For pictures of the event, go to the "slide shows" link on the left and click on wind turbines. Our team consisted of: Ben Jablonski, Joe Fahey, Rosie Drozda, Chloe Carver, Sarina Featherstone, Rachel Crane and Sam Huang
For more activity pictures; click on the slide show link on the left hand side. Also, go to the news link and select the individual grade for more pics!