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4CommunityPar Josephine Kehm ’15Ju n e 2013Élèves de secondes programment “The Athlete Quiz” pour iPhoneIl y a quelque mois, deux élèves de seconde ElliottBolzan et Clément Estampes ont développé uneapplication. Aujourd’hui, elle est vendue au App Storeque nous connaissons tous. Voici une interview des cocréateursde «The Athlete Quiz».The Messenger : Expliquez-nous en brefl’application.Clément Estampes : L'application s'appelle "Theathlete quiz". Elle consiste à trouver les athlètes lesplus connus dans les sports suivants: basketball,baseball, tennis, et soccer. Il y a six niveaux par sportet 24 athlètes par niveau. L'application coûte 0.99$ et il existe une version gratuite avec seulement 1niveau par sport.M : Comment avez-vous trouvé le concept derrièrel’application ?C.E : C'est moi qui ai trouvé l'idée. Le concept m'estparvenu lorsque je jouais au Logo Quiz. J'ai alors eul'idée de faire le même type de jeu mais de remplacerles logos par des athlètesM : Pensiez-vous que l’idée rencontrerait du succès ?C.E : J'ai pensé que l'application pouvait avoirun grand succès parce que les applications de quizen connaissaient beaucoup. Malheureusementl'application n'a pas eu autant de succès qu'on pensaitqu'elle aurait eu.Par Océane Bouhier ’15Apparemment, les oiseaux aussi s’intéressent àla science !Si vous ne faites pas partie de ceux qui ontdû passer des heures de souffrances intenables dûes àl'odeur causée par la putréfaction d'un oiseau coincédans les bouches d'aération, considérez-vous chanceux.En effet, cette rumeur qui fit le tour de la FAS-NY fut causée par la classe des sciences et laboratoiredes secondes qui, à la suite d'une expérience sur lesinsectes, entraîna l'arrivée de notre très cher volatile.Cette expérience consistait à observer le cyclede vie des mouches, elle devait durer une dizaine dejours, malheureusement dès le premier week-end, lesuspect s'introduisit dans l'école, ingurgita les larveset se laissa gentiment mourir dans l'un des conduitsd'aération ouvert au plafond. L’agence de maintenanceeut le plaisir de découvrir le lundi matin, nonseulement l'odeur nauséabonde du volatile mais aussisa digestion.Pour couronner le tout, après un nettoyagerapide et efficace, la position géographique de l’animalempêcha sa capture. Cependant la vie devait reprendreson cours, c’est pour cela que l’équipe de maintenanceeut la merveilleuse idée de scotcher délicatement leplafond.Bien évidemment, un plafond scotché nemasque pas l'odeur de l'oiseau en putréfaction. Il fallutdonc une bonne semaine pour dissiper l'odeur d'oeufspourris qui s'en dégageait.L'histoire ainsi dite, l'équipe de l'expériencedont moi, tenons à nous excuser pour les désagrémentset espérons plus aucune “ attaque” de ce genre!M : Combien d’applications avez-vous vendues pourl’instant ?Elliott Bolzan: On a vendu environ 500 applications,un taux plutôt bas. À vrai dire, l'applicationn'a pas bien réussi: le marché des jeux est très compétitif!M : Comment avez-vous choisi les sports et athlètes ?C.E : C'est moi qui ai choisi les athlètes. Je les aijuste choisis avec mes propres connaissances saufpour le baseball où j'ai dû faire un peu de rechercheparce que je ne connaissais pas assez de joueurs.M : Pourquoi Clément as-tu choisi Elliott commeco-créateur ?C.E : J'ai choisi Elliott pour m'aider parce que c'estun de mes meilleurs amis et je savais qu'il avait déjàfait plusieurs applications dans le passé.M : Combien de temps avez-vous mis pour le développementde l’aspect technologique de l’application ?E.B : J'ai dû mettre environ 50 heures pour le développementde l'application. Beaucoup de ces heuresont été passées avec Clément pour réfléchir au designdu jeu.M : Une fois avoir finalisé l’application, qu’elles sontles étapes nécessaires pour ensuite la vendre ?E.B : Pour vendre une application, il faut faire partiede « l'IOS Developer Program », ce qui coûte $100.Ensuite, il est nécessaire de soumettre l'applicationà Apple, qui vérifiera qu'elle est apte. Enfin, elle serapubliée.M : Combien de temps avez-vous mis pour finircomplètement l’application ?E.B : On a été plutôt efficace, en 1 mois, on a complètementfini l'application !M : Combien pensez-vous pouvoir toucher en uneannée ?E.B : En une année, avec les applications à butludique, les profits sont très variables. Tu peux gagnerdes dizaines de milliers de dollars, ou très peu,en fonction de la popularité. Visiblement, la nôtrefait partie des moins populaires ! Ceci dit, des profitsaux alentours de $1000 par an sont complètementenvisageables avec notre application.M : Qu’elle est le profit que fait Apple ?E.B : Apple garde 30% des recettes (cette portioninclut les taxes).M : Diriez-vous que l’application a connu un succès ?E.B : Notre application n'a pas connu un succès. Ilest en revanche important de l'admettre, pour ensuitealler de l'avant. C'est en échouant que l'on apprend!Un Très “Angry Bird” ! Tenth Grade MPS Elective Leads “CSI”-Style LabsContinued from the Front PageThe class, led by Mme. Gilet and Mme. Lopez, showedenthusiasm as it guided us through the tutorials. Indeed,according to Mme. Lopez, the students had greatly enjoyedthis sequence of the class, and had put in a significantamount of time creating the story, running the necessaryexperiments to fulfill the scenario, and then preparing thelesson plans and presentations to the guests. The teachersgave all the credit for this exciting evening to the students,who worked very hard.By the end of the evening, Mr. Faure was adamantVanessa had commited this crime, because she seemed tohave a sinister personality. However, most everyone elseagreed the science pointed to Vladimir. The SVT class confirmedit was indeed Vladimir who had murdered Ernest,after a fit of professional jealousy involving his coworker’ssuccessful research of a cure for cancer.Of course, it was with sadness that we realized thatthough no humans had suffered in the realization of thisproject, one animal did encounter a tragic end (see accompanyingarticle, left). That unfortunate event aside, it madefor an exciting and educational evening after months ofhard work. We look forward to seeing next year’s project!Above: students examine the traces lefton bullets found at the crime scene.Below Left: Students present the crimescenario to the numerous guests.Below: Megan Fillion ’15 displays themolding made of the suspect’s shoeprint.
Community 5Ju n e 2013Students Join Forces in Workshop,Talk of Forming a Congress of ClubsBy Olivier Weiss ’14As FASNY has developed and evolved, so too have its clubs. They typically consist offaculty advisors and have a similar hierarchical, utilitarian student chain of command, butthe selection of clubs has grown in breadth and depth in tandem with the school’s growth.What has not changed, however, is the independent manner in which each club conductedits business.At least not until recently.In an unprecedented effort to produce greater cohesion and organization for theseclubs, on May 17th, the heads of almost every club that the school has to offer, StudentGovernment included, met from 4:00 to 6:00 PM after school in the library to attend whatwas officially dubbed the FASNY Student Leadership Workshop spearheaded by MireilleBejjani (‘14). The objective of the meeting was, according to an email to parents sent byFASNY on May 24th, “to improve student activities at FASNY by showing the studentsbasic skills needed to be leaders,”honing an efficient and structuredagenda for clubs by establishingspecific concrete goals, writingbrief mission statements for eachclub, and brainstorming what goeswrong and what goes right foreach club in terms of marketingand execution.The idea of simply havingthis get-together to begin withgerminated in Mireille’s mindafter she began The Earth Club,originally known as the RootsThe U.S. Congress in session. FASNY extra-curricularscould benefit from forming a similar alliance.and Shoots Club, last spring, andslowly saw that, in her words, they“weren’t really getting anywhere.”She described the process of creatingher club as “frustrating” because of a lack of clarity as to how to proceed with growingher club.“I didn’t know how to get a new club going and build support and accomplish ourgoals. I realized that I probably wasn’t the only one having some problems. So I thought,‘Why not have a workshop to help all student leaders with any issues they may have?’”The rest came to getting the right people on board. The administration quicklythought it was a great idea once Mireille had presented it, and so they had many follow-upmeetings to bang out the details. Once that was done, she “went looking for facilitators,” orparent presenters “who were both good speakers and had business experience.”She asked FASNY Board of Trustees member Mark Kramer, a private equity manager,and former investment advisor Joelle Weiss, both active members of the FASNY community,to fill those roles, to which they agreed immediately. After a couple of meetings, some deliberation,and some organization and messaging, the date was set for May 17th.The result was what most deemed a success.The room was constantly engaged and actively participated with each activity, whetherwriting out goals, drafting mission statements, talking about negative and positive aspectsof one’s club, or listening to what Ms. Weiss and Mr. Kramer had to say in relating their businessexperience to FASNY student clubs. Throughout the process, the club leaders seemed tounderstand that every other group had very similar problems such as communication, organization,and accountability, and that they could band together to tackle these issues through acollective endeavor to provide solutions.However, it remains to be seen if the workshop produces any measurable increases inproductivity or efficiency, which will be the true indicator of how consequential the meetingwill turn out to have been.Out of both a desire to assure the success of the workshop as well as to provide for amore unified club environment, representatives at the meeting reached a consensus that thereshould be regular meetings once a trimester in what could be named a Congress of Clubs inwhich the Student Government may play an important role as overseer.Sources “close” to the Student Government officers indicate that there have been briefdiscussions about the matter, but that the substance of the proceedings will be discussed duringthe summer.Ninety Percent ofSchool Votes in ElectionContinued from Front PagePosters containing either jokes, witticisms, orcatchy slogans were plastered across the walls as thecandidates schmoozed the electorate. On the eve ofElection Day, Olivier Weiss and Joaquin Delmar bothreleased YouTube videos in which they made final appealsin different styles. While Olivier gave a heartfeltand serious speech that swayed many who were onthe fence, Joaquin made a compilation of studentssaying “Vote for Wawa” with dramatic theme music.On the day of, the Presidential and Vice Presidentialcandidates gave out candy in the morning asthe students sleepily piled into school while Alex Masonset up a projector with a photoshopped pictureof his face cut onto several performers dancing to theNutcracker, and Olivier Weiss put on a sports jacketand some khakis.The next day at recess, the results were in, andthe winners were announced:-Tatiana Hadchiti for Treasurer-Jennifer Roux for Secretary-Joaquin Delmar for Vice President, and-Olivier Weiss for President.The Middle School race for president alsocontained much excitement. Jean-Michael Maugüéwon the uncontested Middle School Vice Presidentposition and Paul Hadchiti beat out Alexa Jakob andTimothée Clochard for Middle School President.The school gave both the winners and the defeateda round of applause for their courage to puttheir names on a ballot and get the short end of theoutcome.The incoming student council faces many uphillbattles if it intends to implement its charitablegoals as planned and give away 20% of its revenuefrom events to charity as well as maintain a cohesivebudget. Another main project that the incomingPresident says is one of his top priorities is drafting aStudent Government Constitution, a trial that raisesenough questions about its nature and its process tomake anyone stop and wonder.The officers, however, maintain that they areconfident that they can accomplish it.A total of 298 students voted this year, or 90percent of eligible voters who were not absent fromschool that day. Twelth grade students do not votesince they will not be at FASNY the following year.The 7th grade showed the most participation,while the 10th grade turned out the smallest percentageof voters. Notably, the middle school grades allturned out in the 90+ percentiles, while high schoolgrades all turned out in the 80 to 90 percent range.Regardless, the voter turnout was extremely high, bytypical standards. The student body appears to havebeen invested in the outcome.And who knows? With this crew, we stillhave hope that next year might just become, ascandidates promised, “the most awesome year inFASNY history.”
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