Creating Student Opportunities
Students will be 3D printing an autonomous car
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Full STEAM Ahead
A Rockhurst High School Blog
Everything started with a trip out to the Garmin Corporate Campus to see the big reveal.
Read MoreIt is helping me remember the difficulty students have when initially given a problem.
Read MoreI'd like to take an opportunity before things start getting too hectic to officially announce what's planned for Computer Science at Rockhurst High School for the 2016-17 school year.
Read MoreThe SensED Internet of Things workshop was beneficial to my upcoming academic year and armed me with a collection of materials that I will likely use to support my instruction of the AP Computer Science Principles curriculum framework.
Read MoreJuly 1, 2016 marks the completion of my first ever high school credit course, Intro to Computer Science. It was nice to be able to focus on just one course as well as rehearse the curriculum planned for release this school year as a required technical credit for graduation.
Read MoreIn the 2014-2015 school year, the Rockhurst math department chose to double the enrollment in our AP Calculus 1 course. This decision was based on the idea that our students deserved every opportunity, and we were confident that this number of students could be successful in an AP course. We have continued with this enrollment plan in the 2015-2016 school year.
Read MoreThe two inflight pictures are from about 3,000 feet and 100,000 feet. Notice on the picture from the highest point of the flight how you can see the blue of the atmosphere below the balloon as well as the darkness of space.
Read More“More people pay attention. I hardly ever see anyone playing games, or messing around with their iPad. It's just so much easier to pay attention and participate..."
Read MoreThe Rockhurst Outdoors Club represents STEAM by presenting students with the opportunity to experience flight at iFLY.
Read MoreAny team that is in its first year of competition is going to learn some lessons the hard way and take their fair share of lumps. Our rookie FIRST Robotics Team is no different as we have had a challenging journey to get where we are today. What started out as a challenge has grown into a process that has developed the minds of our young engineers.
Read MoreI had a brilliant conversation with a colleague. She shared with me - and shared correctly - that teachers are the ones who make the greatest impact on student success. For this reason, teachers still need to be experts in their content area.
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