STEM Day- Sonali

This year stem day was AMAZING!!!! One of my favorite stations was called pixel press. I think it was called that because we used blocks/cubes and then took a picture of them on ipads. We used a program called bloxels. There were 6 stations- Aerodynamics, Robotics, Math, Department of nature(?) things, Pixel Press, and Biomed.

In pixel press we took little cubes and put them into a grid. Once we were done we took a picture of it on an ipad and it became a video game . So Much Fun!!!!! We all worked in groups of 1, 2, or 3. For some reason I was in a group of four. It was strange. The people in my group were Isra (5R), Isabella (5S), Me (5B), and someone from another school.

This was an amazing day and adventure!!!!!!

STEM by Devon and Mitchell

   Pixel Press  

Today all the districts of Clayton went to the Clayton high school/the center of Clayton and we had stem day. One activity we did was pixel press. You began pixel pressing by using different cubes that represent different colors. It was kind of like mario. When we finished building our world we would take a picture with an iPad and upload it to an app called bloxels. Then we would use bloxels to code what our enemies did and what the powerups gave us. We could choose between walker flyer and sanitary for our enemies and the power ups were jetpack, bombs, health, map, invincibility and shrink potion. We could also add other areas to the levels. I played a level that was mostly coins and lava.   

The most interesting powerup on bloxels was the shrink potion. It turned you one block high (one block on one cube) and everything seemed huge! The moving enemies looked like godzilla! Well, that's all for now, bye!