Glebe Report

SCHOOL NEWS Glebe Report February 6,1998 20
Co-op students demonstrate community partnership
BY TALÂT ALI
A great deal of enthusiasm and
hard work were displayed at the
Glebe C. I. Career Fair of 1998.
On January 23, Glebe's spacious
cafeteria was full of miniaturized
workplaces representing high
technology, science, humanities,
social sciences, trades, arts and
retail. Students stood behind
their displays acting as ambassadors
of their Co-op placements.
Employers were also invited to
the Career Fair to enjoy an Appreciation
Breakfast.
What students learn in Co-op
and display in Career Fair is the
result of partnership between educators,
schools and the corporate
community. Most of the parents of
Co-op students support and appreciate
Co-op as a means of developing
invaluable employability
skills in their children. Of
course, students' motivation, effort
and dedication makes Co-op a
worthwhile experience for all
partners. Career Fair is a visual
experience of Co-op for all the
partners and is, therefore, a
major event for the Glebe Co-op
Department.
Approximately 1300 Glebe students
came down to get first-hand
information from the Co-op
students about their workplaces.
Students showed great enthusiasm
and excitement in talking
about their work sites in terms of
the myriad skills they were acquiring
and the kinds of product,
From left to right: Anson Huang, Matt Fraser, Danielle Frenken - Co-op
students at Glashan school.
Photo: Jayne Forward
service, or research they were
helping to produce.
An interesting display was that
of the Humane Society, where Erin
Stratton very enthusiastically
described "Pet Therapy," where
pets are brought to nursing homes
to give an experience of feeling,
petting, and loving animals to the
elderly residents. Part of her
display were documents and
colourful computer charts that
she developed while working at
the Humane Society. A future veterinarian,
Erin has started on the
right foot with the Humane Society.
Love of little babies, had
made Maggie Fondong do Co-op
Glebe C. l.'s robotic team
seek 'Tech-tac-Toe' triumph
BY HEATHER GREENWOOD
The race against time has begun.
Glebe's robotics team has just five
and a half weeks left to design,
construct, test and document a
"Tech-Tac-Toe"-playing robot before
it faces off against other
school's robots in Brampton
February 26.
Tech-Tac-Toe - the name of this
year's country-wide Canada FIRST
robotics competition - is played in
a 36-foot-square arena. Nine pylons
are set up like a tic-tac-toe
board in the middle of the field.
Four robots per heat will race to
propel, not place, their custommade
rings or scoring devices on
the pylons in an attempt to achieve
a tech tac toe. When a tech tac toe
is scored -- three scoring devices
in a row -- the heat ends. Robots
must score quickly and consistently
to accumulate enough points
to make it to the playoffs. The
game design challenges teams to
build a robot with maneuverabil-
ity, speed and an excellent
launching system.
The task may seem steep for
those who aren't highly trained
engineers brimming with experience,
but high-school students
from across the country always
rise to the challenge. This year's
competition at Heart Lake Sec-
ondary School in Brampton, Ontario
will unite students from
across Canada for three exciting
and highly-competitive days.
The 52-student-strong team is
looking to regain the glory of its
second-place finish in 1996. For
the first time, Team Glebe is delighted
to welcome members from
two other high schools: Lisgar C.I.
and Holy Trinity. The members of
Team Glebe, along with their mentors
and teacher supervisors, are
spending their weeknights and
weekends hard at work at our
sponsor's Kanata headquarters.
It's not always smooth sailing --
design flaws are discovered, ideas
are discarded, and tempers start
to flare as the weeks press on and
time weighs increasingly on students
and mentors alike -- but
problems are overcome, and the
result is an environment of selfconfidence,
fun and innovative
designs for Team Glebe's robot.
Designing, building and
maintaining a Web page
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botics and planning a budget are
only some of the many tasks
eating up the precious weeks,
days and hours before the
competition. Hopes are running
high for a victory.
placement at CHEO and she presented
an attractive visual display
of work. Cathy Phillips
showed her passion for biological
sciences through a display of her
workplace at Carleton University's
Department of Biology.
Jonathan showed off his geological
maps and magnetic resonance
work on rock samples as an example
of his job at the Geological
Survey of Canada. At a tailor
shop, Yasmine has learnt to make
skirts and other clothes, without
even a pattern. Jenny Eberts, a
Kindergarten teacher's aide at
Manor Park, displayed what goes
on in a Kindergarten class.
SPORTS & SPINAL INJURY CLINIC
Technology's biggest impact on
students' experiences was in the
area of high technology e.g. computer
repair and diagnostics,
computer configuration, application
of various computer software,
assembling and refurbishing
computers, designing Web pages
and working on software. Glebe's
cafeteria was a microcosm of the
silicon valley of the North.
Calum De Leeuw showed how to
install, assemble, and repair PCs
using a wide variety of electronic
equipment. Bobby showed his
computer application skills
which specifically targeted
educational software packages.
Business booths were an interesting
site for all the visiting
Glebe students. A student working
at a sports store set up an
interesting display of ski products
and showed a video on the
sport to a captivated audience.
The Career Fair provided a
great opportunity to all students
at Glebe to learn about workplaces
in the Ottawa-Carleton
area, and witness the work of the
Co-op Department in developing
the employability skills of the
students. It provided other students
an inspiration to think
about the work related aspects of
education, and plan their future
on the solid foundations of academic
and workplace skills. Some
students were so impressed with
the Career Fair that they immediately
wanted to register in Coop.
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