Every hero becomes a bore at last. (Ralphn Waldo Emerson)
Cosmologia
Dupa cum stiti, Liceul Teoretic Little London participa la un concurs numit ,,Cosmologia”. Eu am realizat o prezentare PPT despre Niclolaus Copernic (Nikolaus Copernikus). Am aflat ca el a fost o mare personalitate. El a fost printre primii oameni care au spus ca Pamantul se invarte in jurul soarelui si nu soarele in jurul pamantului(Teoria Heliocentrica).
Some English Idioms :)
English Idioms:
- I’m fed up to the back teeth with all these complaints.
- He looked so ridiculous that it was hard to keep a straight face.
- I got off on the wrong foot by arriving late for the test.
- He didn’t want to loose face by admitting he had made a mistake.
- She may seem frightening but her heart is in the right place.
- I can’t make head not tail of this maths exercise.
- In his mother’s eyes he can do no wrong.
- I wish he wouldn’t poke his nose into my business.
Proiectul “Rromii”
Va prezentam noul nostru proiect: “Rromii”. La acest proiect iau parte 6 elevi ai gimnaziului: Alexia, Lia si Stefan N.(clasa a 6-a) si Maria Gr.,Eli si Vladimir(clasa a 7-a), coordonati de doamna Sevil Lazarescu.
In cadrul acestui proiect trebuie sa prezentam cultura si civilizatia rromilor, un moment artistic traditional si unul gastronomic. Planul prezentarii trebuie trimis pentru a fi aprobat, iar a doua etapa se va desfasura undeva langa Cluj unde vom asista si la prezentarile celorlalti despre diverse tari si comunitati europene si unde se va alege castigatorul.
Plecarea la Cluj se va desfasura intre 26-30 iunie.Urati-ne succes!
Inkscape Work
Example of Inkscape projects done at ICT:
LightSail – Flight by Light
Some exciting news connected to the Cosmology Project:
The Planetary Society will launch a test flight of LightSail on May 20, in preparation for its primary solar sailing mission in 2016.
The Planetary Society is a non – governmental Organization for democratic space exploration and its president is our “friend” you know from Science classes : Bill Nye -The Science Guy (see our first posts at Science category)
<Nye launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds needed for the Planetary Society’s LightSail project, which aims to make the long sought after idea of solar sailing a reality. More than $4 million had already been “raised by our 40,000 plus members around the world who just think it’s cool,” Nye says. These are scientists, enthusiasts and advocates “who just want to participate in space exploration, and who want to advance space science and exploration so that we’ll all learn more about the cosmos and what I like to call our place within it, our place in space.”>
Perhaps some of you will join the Bill Nye’s Society and become part of something really important!
What we created: The Spatial Missions for the Cosmology National Competition
We chose to realize 3 spatial observatories :
Gaia: “… an ambitious mission to chart a three-dimensional map of our Galaxy, the Milky Way, in the process revealing the composition, formation and evolution of the Galaxy. Gaia will provide unprecedented positional and radial velocity measurements..”
Herschel: “…The European Space Agency’s Herschel Space Observatory (formerly called Far Infrared and Sub-millimetre Telescope or FIRST) has the largest single mirror ever built for a space telescope. At 3.5-metres in diameter the mirror will collect long-wavelength radiation from some of the coldest and most distant objects in the Universe….” more information
Corot: “…CoRoT (Convection, Rotation and planetary Transits) is the first space mission dedicated to planetary research and designed for this purpose….”
The students ( gr. 5, 6 and 7) who realized the above paper work are (in order of their contribution):
Stefan Niculae, Victor, Lia, Stefan Staicu, Eli Mihail, Giorgia, Maria Grigore, Alexia, Vladimir Dima, Antonie Grigore, Tudor Vartic, Tudor Dima, Matei Calinescu, Sara Niculae, Tudor Manta
You can see below the images ( source: the internet) that served us as a model:
The Quote of the week
Because Eli will be busy with his Inkscape project this week, I post below a few quotes for him:
Who were Mahatma Gandhi or Albert Einstein? I am sure you know.( or Eli will try to write something about their incredible work)
And the music for today is:
The Quote of the week
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. (Nelson Mandela)