Have you every heard the saying when the going gets tough, the tough get going?  Recently I overheard this advice being shared by a Fourth Class student to his classmate.  It got me thinking…how has this youngster come to understand that there is a value in sticking with something—to see a project through to completion.

The chance of snow, and dare I say the dream of a snow day, is not the only cause for excitement at the Academy.  The students in our Second and Fourth Classes have participated in the international Hour of Code initiative.  The program is designed to help expose students to computer science and coding.  Our Sixth Class is going well beyond this as they are ‘building’ their own Space Invaders game.  Don’t be mistaken, while it sounds like fun and literally games…real learning is occurring as our students learn computer programming including: sequencing, loops, iteration, functions, variables and list.