Western News: June 28, 2016

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SECONDARY SCHOOL SPORTS SELECTION SECONDARY SCHOOL SELECTION
Digital Technologies at Digit
SPORTS
Mairehau High School Mair
PAST GREAT, FUTURE GREATS: Quinn Clinton, (second from right) with NBA
greats David Robinson, Bruce Bowen after taking home the All-Star game
MVP award. ​
Boys’ High Quinn Clinton MVP
and he meets the game’s greats
• By Gordon Findlater
CHRISTCHURCH Boys’ High
basketballer Quinn Clinton, has been
named the most valuable player at the
weekend’s Basketball Without Borders
All-Star Game.
Clinton was presented with the award in
the presence of some NBA greats.
Two-time NBA Championship winner
and 1995 NBA MVP David Robinson
headlined the four-day-camp. Robinson is
ranked amongst some of the greatest big
men to ever play the game.
Robinson was joined at the camp by a
fellow member of the 2003 championship
winning San Antonio Spurs, Bruce Bowen.
The three-time championship winner
is rated as one of the greatest defenders of
his time. He made five NBA All-Defensive
first teams from 2004-2008.
• By Gordon Findlater
BURNSIDE HIGH School rugby
player Perry Karati brought up
a rare milestone on Saturday,
playing his 50th match for the
school’s first XV.
Karati (right) accomplished the
feat against Waimea Combined
in Nelson. Burnside lost the game
12-15.
He joins captain Cam Russel
Clinton was one of five Kiwis to attend
the camp in Melbourne. Less than 50 of
the top 16 to 18-year-olds are invited to
attend the Asia region camp.
It was a bright week for New Zealand
players, fellow Kiwi Sam Waardenburg
was awarded the four-day-camp MVP
award.
There’s no rest for Clinton who now
returns home to represent CBHS in the
Thompson Trophy secondary school
competition.
Clinton has been a stand-out performer
for his school and last week recorded 12
points, 12 assists, nine rebounds, six steals
and a block, in a top of the table clash with
Cashmere High School.
Clinton and his CBHS side will host
Papanui High School tonight. Tip-off is at
6pm.
Burnside player reaches 50th match
as just the second active player in
the Burnside team to bring up 50
games.
Burnside currently hold
sixth place in this year’s UC
Championship, with six wins and
four draws.
Round 11 of the competition
sees them travel south to play
Timaru Boys’ High School this
Saturday.
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Digital Technologies Design, and Visual
Communication and Workshop Materials
are the learning teams that are involved in
the initial stages of a project to build two
weather stations in separate locations.
The first challenge for term one was
to use the project plan for the school’s
STEM project as a basis to design a Year
11 Digital Technologies course that met
the individual needs of the students,
curriculum delivery requirements and
NCEA assessment requirements. It’s a
popular course, with enthusiasm for it
fuelled by the work students do in this
learning area in the junior school.
The students opting for this course
have a range of skills and abilities.
Individual courses were designed to
establish the base skills needed to begin
the construction, and programming of
the electronic system that will measure,
record and display weather data.
The main emphasis for the first term
was to establish a suitable level of coding
skills in all the students. The learning
progress has enabled all students to be in
a position to participate directly in the
coding of the electronic recording system
for the Weather Stations.
Some students are operating at the
higher skill level and they will write the
code to drive the dynamic data driven
website that will display the data. These
students will be assessed against Level 2
NCEA standards.
Electronic systems have been the
focus of learning and assessment this
term. Arduino boards have been used
to construct small to medium sized
projects. These projects enable students to
understand the electronic componentry
needed in the construction of the weather
stations.
Year 12 student Zion Phillips coding and
constructing a 4WD drive vehicle.
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