02.02.20

02.02.20 - Happy Palindrome Day!

This Week

February is African Heritage Month.

In Room 206, for the month of February, we will focus on celebrating achievements and legacies of Canadians of African descent across many areas of life: law, engineering, health, science, writing, sports, activism, education, and journalism. 

As always, if you or your family has anything to share, I most welcome whatever your bring to the table. 

Phase 5 Strike Action

Provincial Strike Day is Thursday. Clairlea teachers will be walking outside Christina Maria Mitas' Constituency Office on Lawrence Avenue East

TDSB Strike Day is Friday. I believe we will be in the Clairlea neighbourhood, stationed at the back parking lot. 

As always, thank you for your support through coffee, donuts, muffins, hot chocolate, bathroom and warm up places, words and emails of support.

Please visit https://etfocb.ca/ to remain informed on ETFO action.

The Week That Was

This week, we built elevators and moving sidewalks to support students with disabilities at Clairlea. As we are all Engineers and Scientists in Room 206, we work hard to understand how our knowledge of small machines, such as pulleys and gears, can be used to make positive change in our world.

We know that Clairlea needs an elevator or a moving sidewalk 😃, so here are a few of our designs. More pictures to come as our Engineers are still busy fine tuning their structures, and drawing and writing up their designs.

Engineers George and Nicholas made a wheel out of yoghurt container lids that lifts the elevator car. The elevator car has a drop-down ramp that allows a wheelchair to roll on. Their LEGO wheelchair (not shown) has a motorized computer screen!
So 21st Century!!

As you can see, the "Transporter" allows students (or people with heavy suitcases and backpacks) to travel effortlessly through the building. Our Engineers, Ewan and Nayab, designed and built a sidewalk that actually moves in a forward and reverse rotation, effortlessly. The LEGO bricks provide stability and you can see handrails for mounting and dismounting.
Hello, TTC! We're doing it in Room 206! 

In this compact and clever design, our Engineers designed an elevator car that actually rotates forward and backward to help people get on and off. 

This design is rather excellent because our Engineers, Nazara and Sanjna, attached the wheel and pulley system to the projector cart, thereby allowing more height to their design. The cable system runs through the top of the cart to allow maximum leverage.

Universal Design - What you can't see in this picture is the "Emergency" and "Floor" buttons that allow students with a limited range of functional ability to travel effortlessly throughout the building. Engineers Selena and Eirini thought of everything! 

Engineers, Gabriella and Hibbat, built a "double car" elevator that transports people and animals because really, what's a school without horses on the second floor?

See you all Monday. 
C. Vincent