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||| Our Springtime started off enthusiastically at Berkeley Rose with our annual 8th grade Presentations. These individual projects are a culmination of all that the students have learned – primarily from 5th through 8th grades. All of the research skills that they have gained and honed over the years are poured into these projects. They conduct their own research, find a mentor, hold interviews and use the internet, scholarly journals, and the library as sources of information for their projects. Using newer skills to approach internet research with a critical eye, they continued their annual exercise of translating and conveying ideas to others through their presentations.
The presentations literally started off with a “bang” as one student wowed the audience with a demonstration on explosives. All of the class presentations were equally as compelling, with rich, thought-provoking offerings focused on everything from Architecture to Factory Farming to Quantum Computer Theory. A student made an upcycled ball gown out of donated blue denim, tailored to be modeled by another student in the class. Another student shared the process of writing and recording her own original music, including what her songwriting process looks like. You can listen here. Visit a quantum computing website made by one student for just a sampling of what they produced.