Three sixth grade girls from Baden Academy came across a news alert about a scientist in Israel who was studying bats. That wasn’t so unusual, but then the girls realized the scientist was using the same type of RFID technology to track the bats that Baden Academy uses to help electronically match students to their correct buses. What a coincidence! The students—Kennedi Emery, Kaitlyn Desrochers, and Brynn Burnsworth—reached out to Dr. Yossi Yovel at Tel Aviv University to find out more, and they eventually turned their fascinating research into a book called Tagging Bats. The girls were excited about every step of the project, from seeing the Hebrew characters in the correspondence from Dr. Yovel, to learning more about Tel Aviv, to understanding how technological advancements can help humans learn more about bats by tracking them. The girls gained so much by trying to figure out each small piece of equipment and what it can teach us about bats and about ourselves. Their biggest hope with the book is to inspire other kids to love technology-and bats! You can get your copy today and enjoy their story of discovery. Profits from the sale of the book go to the Bat Conservation Fund.
Visit the girls’ website at bacswildlife.weebly.com To purchase the book, please visit http://bit.ly/TaggingBats A book trailer was created and can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB7OOqwq4sM&feature=youtu.be
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In fifth grade, Brynn ran a club, this club is the Dragon Tag Programming Club. The Dragon Tag Programming Club teaches students at BACS how to code. BACS students started this club, as the Dragon Tag software needed to be coded. Students started in CSS and Python, but developed an overall interest in coding. The younger kids decided to explore a simple coding website called Code.org.
Dragon Tags started at Baden Academy in 2014. Started by Owen Rossi-Keen, This tag was meant to help the kindergartners, as they were unable to share with adults how they should travel home and where they lived. This was especially important when a parent would send in a note with an alternative way of getting home, as the child would usually not remember. With the Dragon Tag, teachers were able to change what the tag would say once scanned. Baden Academy has an RFID reader in their gym, with a TV to display the information. This was incredibly helpful, as dismissal was held in he gym every day. The Dragon Tag could access other information as well, including emergency contacts, homeroom teacher name, and the student's full name. When the kindergartners would see their names on the screen, they were very excited. It soon became less of something the kids would be forced to do, and more of something the kids wanted to do! Soon after, a Dragon Tag Programming Club was formed. There job was to tweek some of the programming in the Dragon Tag RFID system.
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VocabularyRFID stands for Radio Frequency Identification. RFID technology is used in everything, including your credit card chip. ArchivesCategories |