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6-feet horrors: How People Celebrated Halloween This Year

"BOO!" Halloween is one of the most popular holidays in America. Unfortunately, like most everything else, COVID has put the stopper on regular Halloween. However, being the smart and creative people humanity is, (Alternate:) BOO! Halloween is one of the most popular holidays in America. In days leading up to Halloween the young and old alike start crowding in the malls and stores in search of costumes, decorations, outfits, and accessories in order to create that perfect spooky evening. However, this year like everything else, COVID put a stop to a lot of those activities but thanks to creative thinking, people still figured out many clever ways to "trick or treat" safely and stopped COVID from ruining Halloween completely. In this blog, we'll talk about how Halloween was different in this highly unusual year. First, let's talk about one of the most important things: Costumes! Costumes this year was mostly like any other shopping expedition. The only d

TinkerCAD: What is it and how to get started

Points to talk about - What is cad -What is TinkeCAd -Tips to use it - Use the preveiw -Long term tips Do you want to bring your dream house out of your mind and into real life? Do want to do it in 3D? Well so, there is a fun way to do so! And this way is called CADing. What is CAD? Well CAD stands for Computer-Assisted Design. This basically means that you can use basic 3-dimensional shapes like cylinders, cubes, and pyramids to make all sorts of cool inventions and models. Now many professional users will use more advanced CAD, but for an easy interface, Tinkercad is best for beginners. So how best do we use Tinkercad? Well, that's what this blog is going to be talking about.

Alice And Animation: What I learned(And how to get set-up)

Want a simple way to learn animation? Want a way to create 1 minute short films in less than 20 minutes? Well, you've come to the right spot! I took a free, 8-week course on Coursera. The link is below if you would like to take the course, too. Alice Animation is a simplistic way to make animations. Since this platform is for younger and not professional users, so you might think the animation looks a bit strange a first. But not to worry! Combined with storytelling and lots of movement you can actually make some pretty cool animations. So without further ado, here's a prequel for my steps to learning Alice: 1. Download it. Simply go to this link: https://www.alice.org/ . Once you click on it, you should be brought to a website that looks like this: Go to the "Get Alice" tab to begin the download, you may look at the other tabs to learn more about Alice if you like. Once you get to the right tab, download the latest version of Alice. Follow the setup instructions, a

Study Skills That Can Help During Social Distance Learning

Okay, I went to a few online classes this summer, and by far one of my favorite classes was "Study Skills". I loved this course because it taught me to really look deep into organizing my things so that they are not only easy to find, but also. completed to the best of my ability I learned to identify my learner intelligence, to prioritize my assignments, and to achieve my goals. So today, I am here to share with you the top strategies. 1.Know Yourself as a Learner Knowing and understanding your learner intelligence is an important factor in being a good student. To figure this out, we will look into 8 different learner types and the 4 tendencies. First, let's look into learner intelligence. What are the learner types? Learner types, discovered by Dr.Howard Gardner, are how you best learn and take notes. Do you learn verbally? Do you use your body to learn? Do you see the world through math and logic? I got most of my source information from this video: https://www.

Reading Books During The Pandemic

With COVID-19 trapping us at home, we have turned to the comfort of home entertainment. Some kids turn to TV. Some kids, however, like to turn their minds to books. And surprisingly, some people see themselves an how they are handling the current situation in those books. I interviewed a few people from my school to see what books they're reading, and how the characters in the books might react to the situation we are in. Student #1: For my first interviewee, I brought in a student the same age as me. I asked what book she was reading and she told me that she was reading a healthy mix between fiction and nonfiction. The first book she told was about sleeping habits. Interesting. Sleeping, especially during this time, is extremely important. We need our energy and health to make it through this.

Making A Robot: My First Time Experience

Okay, so being stuck at home, means for most people, you need something fun, productive, and creative, and somewhat challenging to do. My mother bought me something that is all those things in one. Say hello to the Meccano XL 2.0 Personal robot: It really is an amazing thing. While it can be frustrating, It is totally worth it. I just wanted to kind of go over what building something like a robot may be at this, some tips, and recommendation, not specifically this on particular robots, but for building things in general. Let's get started. First Let me talk about my experience building this robot before we get to tips and recommendations. So just a heads-up, when you first start building something, not everything is going to go as planned. Stuff is going to happen along the way that will upset and annoy you. Don't let that get to you. Throughout this, I probably had to screw and re-screw over 100 times. It's not going to be easy, but make sure you keep