Engineering the Perfect Cookie

Grade 9 science students learning how chemistry has practical applications.
Not only did they engineer the perfect cookie they also got to eat them :)

Grade 12 Biology

Mrs. Brunone's Grade 12 biology class dissecting kidneys.

WELCOME to 2016/2107 SCIENCE

We are kicking off the new year with 2 teams that will be competing in the Great Lakes Science Olympiad hosted by the Faculty of Science at The University of Windsor on October 14th, 2016.
These teams are composed of 4-6 grade 12 students that will compete against other high schools in the area in all science disciplines: biology, chemistry, physics and robotics.

OUr teams did well however we did not finish in the top three.  Better luck next year Brennan. 

Physics Design Competition

High School Design Competition 2016

March 29, 2016

Ryan, Carly, Kassy, Devon

When we were first given our supplies in the morning, all of us were fairly overwhelmed- how were we supposed to make a car out of all of these parts? We did begin to put parts together, and our confidence grew. We didn't really think about brainstorming because we didn't see value in it- we just wanted to try as best we could making a car. Before lunch began, we had finished building our car, but we couldn't get it to move. Our group spent the majority of lunch attempting to fix it, but to no avail. We finally decided to rebuild our entire car even though we only had about 30 minutes left. We scaled our large, unstable 4-wheeled car into a thin, aerodynamic car with 3 wheels. This design was much more stable than the previous one, and consequently, the car actually moved! From our experiences at HSDC 2016, we learned the benefits of brainstorming, and that bigger isn’t always better. All of us enjoyed our time here, and we look forward to next year’s competition.

Physics Rocks! Good habits lead to success, bad habits lead to failure.

Group Members: Kevin, Liam, Dante, Ronan

Our task for this competition was to build a motorized car that could travel 25 ft with the highest possible velocity using the materials given to us.  We immediately determined that, to achieve the highest possible velocity, we would need to have the largest gear attached to the motor, immediately followed by a small gear.  We used a design with four wheels and the motor mounted at the back.  The battery was mounted at the front to better balance the design.  Another important aspect of our design was the usage of bevel gears, which change the direction of rotation from horizontal to vertical, allowing us to adequately spin the rear axle of our design, resulting is rear wheel drive.  The major drawback we faced was that the gears did not initially properly make contact and therefore the car did not move.  We solved this problem by using a spacer to keep the lowermost gear in place and therefore maintain proper contact.  We were ecstatic to see that our design was able to move just in time for the presentation. We then presented our design the the panel of judges, explaining the various engineering principles we applied in our design, as well as our car’s capacity for zombie defence!   Overall, we really enjoyed the day, being able to experiment and toy around with various designs as well as to work as a team to overcome challenges.  Although towards the end we were incredibly doubtful that our design would move, we managed to persevere with a car that we are truly proud of.  

  

Group: Tomasz, Josh, Max, Justin

Great work by all our students. You make us proud to be Cardinals! CHIRP!!!

A special thank you to Mr. Latouf and his Grade 11 and 12 Physics classes

FJB Grade 9 Science Fair

March 23, 2016.
The FJB Grade 9 Academic Science students took part in the Science Fair.
There were a total of 15 projects which covered topics from sports (hockey, baseball and tennis) to Water Filtration, Germs and even which Tea stains your teeth more.
The projects and the students hosted and explained their projects to visiting classes.
A special thanks to our senior science students for an amazing judging job.

Our life skills students also came to check out all the excitement with Mrs. Limarzi. 

Mrs. Farrand viewing the projects and getting the edge on Hockey. 

Our senior students judging the projects.

                                     It was a great day!  Thanks to everyone for a job well done :)

Grade 9 Semester 2

Grade 9 Academic science activity in critical thinking on day 1 of Semester 2.  It's never too early to get the juices flowing or the towers built.  This activity involvs the grade 9 students trying to build the Tallest Freestanding Tower they can.

Brennan Olympic Science (B.O.S)

The Brennan Science Department is currently hosting 7 classes from our feeder schools in a Brennan Science Challenge.  Each week students from these classes work in small groups and  are invited to participate in a new activity and submit it to B.O.S via google classroom.

The top 6 teams are ranked each week. At the end of  the 10 week science challenge, the top 6 teams will be invited to visit Brennan for a Science Olympiad to claim bragging rights as the best elementary science school team.
May the Force Be with you! (F=ma)