One of the things that often makes Imagine Cup entries a good educational experience is that they require planning and team work. A good Imagine Cup entry is seldom a one person project. Many universities use the Imagine Cup, especially the Software Design event, as senior projects. The Game Event makes a great team project even earlier in ones education however. Pat Yongpradit has been using the Imagine Cup Game Design event as a group project for several years now. He’s had a team make it as far as the US Finals in that category. This is quite an accomplishment as most of the competitors are university students. Still, he has great students and is an outstanding teacher. For the Fall round of the US game competition he has 8 teams of students who have entered and submitted for round one. Recently he shared some of the documents he uses with his students. <
The first thing you do is kill the dog (not really)
Uncle Harry always advised: “Once the last kid is married, the first thing you do is kill the dog and change all the locks…!”
I used to laugh. I don’t laugh anymore. And neither will you once that time comes. You’ll be tempted to wave goodbye at the church smiling to yourself “mission accomplished.” Sorry, folks, but whether you knew it or not, you signed up for a life-time contract. Come their first crisis — broken heart, broken marriage, broken career — chances are you’ll hear from them. Usually in that dreaded late-night call. Their tears, their anger, their pain. See, you can kill the dog, but you can’t kill your ties-that-bind.
Nor can you kill the headlines. Those relentless rampaging headlines about death in the streets, chaos in the banks, and terrorists plotting in the shadows.
However, if you can take the historical vs the headline view of authors like Harvard’s Steven Pinker, it gets a little more encouraging.
EKPE UDOH
Edmond, Oklahoma
Professional Basketball Player, Golden State Warriors
My father, thats all he preaches is education
Ekpe Udoh was born May 20, 1987, in Edmond, Oklahoma to Sam and Alice Udoh, both Nigerian immigrants. Udoh started playing basketball at the tender age of five years old around his neighborhood with the local boys. After falling in love with basketball, he decided to play high school ball for Edmond Santa Fe High School, where he helped lead the team to the state-championship as a junior.
He went on to play two seasons at the University of Michigan, but decided to transfer to Baylor University to finish out his college basketball career. Udoh
2011 Student Diploma Exam Achievement Results
The summary of diploma examination achievement from 2011 has been made available. Once again Ross Sheppard students showed phenomenal academic achievement, meeting acceptable and excellence standards at a rate of more than 5% higher than provincial averages.
Within the school, there was improvement in achievement levels in most core subjects, with the science department having a very strong year; over 90% of Shep students met acceptable standards, compared to approximately 77% across the province.
The average across all subjects showed 86.1% of Shep students meeting acceptable standards, and 25.7% of our students meeting the standard of excellence. This compares to averages of 81.1% and 19.5% across the province.