My oldest is getting…. older! 🙂 Happy birthday sweetheart! Here we are in an abandoned building down town. The lights in the background are a storefront across Broadstreet.
Hannah Also had a birthday swim party at Arthurs house. But I did not get anyy pictures for some strange reason.. 🙁 It was fun all the same! (There is a video in the archive of everyone diving in the pool for future refrence 🙂 )
Posted on 1 June '17 by admin, under Birthdays. No Comments.
OK, need to add more to this..
Here is a good picture of the girls in Charleston with Kathi.
A couple of Hannah’s senior pictures!
Hmm. I don’t think I mentioned that I did a TEDx talk.. “Our future is Awesome!” Rick Mckee, a syndicated political cartoonist drew a picture representing my talk. Pretty cool!
Hmm.. most of my pics are at work.. Ill have to add more tomorrow. 🙂
Posted on 23 March '16 by admin, under Events. No Comments.
Beck was asking about Hannah… Well let me tell ya’. Hannah is off to a summer camp at the South Carolina Governors School summer camp, “Goscitech“. Its a week long overnight camp where she chose the “Programming using minecraft” class. Here is an outline:
Robotics Programming Using MinecraftWouldn’t it be great if you could learn while you play? Program computers using the Lua language embedded in Minecraft, a 3D virtual world popular among teenagers and adults who like to build and design. Write software to control virtual robots to operate and survive in the game using fundamental logical constructs, data structures, and approaches to problem solving that are transferrable to any programming environment. Students will also learn basic computer architecture as they build circuits and logic gates using Minecraft’s redstone components. After the course is completed, students may continue using the school’s Minecraft server to continue their exploration, or stay connected to friends in their class. If students have not programmed before, Lua is a good place to start, and learning while you play Minecraft is a fun way to do it! Students who enroll in this course must already have, or purchase, a valid user license for Minecraft, currently priced at $26.95.Instructor: Mr. Jon Shannon
Grade Level: 8th, 9th & 10th
So this is neat. She will be learning the programming language “Lua” is based in the C language, so it will be a great basis to start!
I’m looking forward to seeing what she learns and what she thinks about it.
BTW, visiting the school was cool.. wow.. nice campus. I KNOW Hannah really wants to get into this school.
Posted on 7 July '13 by admin, under Activities, Holidays. 1 Comment.
Happy 15th Sweetheart! We had an eventful day Saturday. Early, we went to the clubhou.se to blow up balloons and make a sort of balloon arch for the national day of civic hacking. My friend Eric was one of the creators of it, and now it is a honest to goodness whitehouse recognized event.. pretty neat I would say. Hannah is glad it happens on her B-day.. this means that there will be hackathons and makerfairs on or around her birthday each year!
Speaking of makerfairs. She found one happening in Columbia on her day, and that is what she wanted to do for her birthday! I fully approve of course!! Here she is with her friend Amber learning how to solder. They made a little flashy light button.
How cool is it that she wanted to go to a makerfaire. I’ll tell you. >Very<.
Posted on 2 June '13 by admin, under Activities, Birthdays. No Comments.
Such a long name for a high school. SCGSSM.org One of 16 public boarding schools in the country. Consistently ranked #1 in SC scores of all types.
Hannah received a invitation to an informal meeting where they introduce you to some parents of alumni and alumni themselves, and you can ask them questions.
There were ~15 prospective students there, half 9th graders, and half 10th graders. The school is only for 11&12th grades, and the invitation is for both years. The kids are expected to go home one weekend a month.
Its unbelievable. The things they offer are … hard to believe.
100% of the teachers have a Masters degree
80% have a PHD
10 to 1 class size (!)
Summer internships at scientific labs.
Its just crazy.
But besides all those wonderful things… Here is what blew me away. I said there were 15 kids there right? (Kids from Aiken county schools were invited to this informal meeting)
3 of those 15 were Hannah and her small group from school. The kids she eats lunch with. It would have been 4 of 16, but Camara, their 4th friend who was invited was not able to come. (actually not allowed to come 🙁 (
Even if she does not end up qualifying, that little coincidence alone makes me hopeful for the future.
Another thing that is interesting.. I don’t know if it means anything. Hannah’s school has 420 kids in it. North Augusta HS (The school Hannah normally would have attended.. a known decent school) that has 1000 students, Did not have anyone represented at the meeting. I don’t know what that means, but it was a surprise.
Teri: I asked the administrator if Hannah went to Switzerland for 10th grade, would that be a problem, and they said no, not a problem. Her residence is still SC. Just make sure her qualifications are met. 🙂
Posted on 19 October '12 by admin, under school. 2 Comments.
Here is a good one. This was not for English, this was for Biology. The assignment was: “write two paragraphs about the relevance of biology to society.”
Hannah came to me initially and said.. “What the heck does she want here??” And I said.. “Hmm. Good question.. well, we can start by asking ourselves what is biology?” and she replied “Bio; life, ology; study of.” And after a few seconds of contemplating that, she said “OK. I’ve got it from here.”
I love how she reworded the title of the paper.
Yes, I know there are more mistakes than the one the teacher pointed out.. I will give her some slack because she is not an English teacher. 🙂
And I went to see/meet Hannah’s teachers.
They all lover her. Only two teachers had a single negative thing to say, and that is that she reads too much in class. This is an ongoing problem since elementary school.
She is getting high A’s in all her classes.
Except gym.
She promised to fix that.
Things I noticed; She sits in the front of the class for most of her classes. She associates with many kid in the hallways.
I am a very lucky Dad.
I will let you know how Rockwell and Melinda’s interim reports went, they were tonight also.
Posted on 20 September '12 by admin, under kids, school. No Comments.
Update 2: A picture. With that perfect ambivalent 13 year old’s expression!
UPDATE: She came in 6th place in the whole state! I’m so proud of her. Way to Go H.
So, Hannah is at the mathcounts state contest as we speak.. She just made it into the final round! GO Hannah!
Posted on 29 March '12 by admin, under school, St Croix. No Comments.
Oh My.. We have a teenager in the house now…
Good thing she’s a good egg!
Posted on 1 June '11 by admin, under Birthdays, kids. No Comments.
<parental boasting>She was invited to take the SAT because of some scores she received on some standardised testing she did in school in the fall.
She took it in January, and we just got the score back: 1360. (out of 2400) Not bad. Actually, its close to an average score (40th percentile) for a “college bound high school senior”. (~970 out of 1600 for those of you that took it before 2006) Pretty good for a 7th grader. Way to go Hannah! That’s my girl.
And, I dont want to forget Melinda. She has been kicking butt and taking names too. She said to me “Dad, I got 100’s in all my classes except one on the midterm report.” As she waits for me to ask her about the one that she didnt get 100 on.. “Oh, that one.. I got 102!”
She takes a test on monday to see if she can get into the GT program. I sure hope she makes it.. She wanted to match her big sister so bad..
Smart aleck.
And Rockwell? He is doing fine. He would do great if he did his classwork! However, it appears he is all of a sudden truely interested in reading. He would read before, but it was not a priority. Now, it seems like it is.. I pray it is! Reading is VERY IMPORTANT.
Posted on 24 February '11 by admin, under kids, school. No Comments.
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