SON GCE Portfolio

Hello, I am a 9th grade student here at GCE Lab School and I have been taking a class here called Thin Red Lines, TRL for short. This is a Humanities class that's main focus is maps, that is one of the many reasons it is called Thin Red Lines. Ever since this course started, I learned so many new things about maps that I never even knew about before. Instead of showing a big picture used for directions, each map has its own interests and disinterests. Yet, no matter how many maps we make, they still wouldn't have any interest because the world keeps on changing. But that doesn't mean we stop using them. On one field experience, we were split up into groups and each were chosen a location to reach, using a map. It was a map of Chicago and its interest was, well, Chicago. When one group reached their location, we switched off to the next one. While each group went they got timed by our teacher until they got to their destination. My group was the first one to go. While

In Rocket Science class with Aaron Moring-D'Angier, we learned several things with respect to space travel, aircraft flight patterns, communicating with extraterrestrial life, and binary code. Towards the end of the term, we each had to design and build our own water bottle rockets for launch. Working from a proposed budget, we crafted our rockets out of materials such as 2 liter bottles, cardboard fins, construction paper cones, etc. Later, we analyzed the flight of our rockets by calculating the maximum height of our launch using the total trip time and distance. Below is a slideshow of all the work I compiled during this course. I hope you enjoy it!