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Deer Anatomy Lesson
By Dave JosephSTEMIA SW Junior High Science and Options Our grade 8 students at the SW Junior High participated in an interesting dissection last week, the lungs and heart from a white tail deer that was recently harvested in Alberta by one of our teachers. During the field dressing phase the heart, lungs, and windpipe Read more
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Grade 7 in Virtual Reality
Our grade 7 students have been busy coding and building virtual reality experiences using DelightEx. Working with this software, they tackled two unique projects. The first project challenged students to design a Rube Goldberg machine that demonstrated their understanding of loops, conditionals, variables, and functions. Their machines needed to include at least ten distinct elements Read more
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Skills Exploration Challenge 2025
By Dan McWilliamSW Junior HIgh Options Teacher and Learning Lead On December 2, 2025, our SW Junior High Skills Club took part in the annual Skills Exploration Challenge through Skills Alberta. This year’s theme was Future Friendly Transportation. Students were asked to design or redesign a personal or public mode of transportation unique to their Read more
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Stop Motion Animation Project
By Tyler ChristiansenSW Junior High Options Our animation class wrapped up a stop-motion project that asked students to build a one-minute film from scratch. Each group had to capture at least 600 individual photos and animate them at 10 frames per second. The goal was to learn the fundamentals of frame-by-frame storytelling, timing, and visual Read more
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Industry in Action: Imperial Oil and STEM Innovation Academy Partner for Real-World Career Learning
How do you show students the complexity of Canada’s energy sector? You bring them inside one of the companies shaping it. By Ken HoffmanSTEM Innovation Academy Energy Enrichment Lead and SW Junior High Science Lead On Nov. 5, as part of Take Our Kids to Work Day, 81 STEM Innovation Academy Junior High students visited Imperial Read more
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Video in Production Club
Meet the Cast of Lockers, Legends, and Late Assignments By Tyler Christiansen and Jenna Spencer This year, our SW Jr High students are bringing something brand new to our school community: a student-made comedy pilot TV show called “Lockers, Legends, and Late Assignments.” Think of it as our own sitcom set in the halls of Read more
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