Let’s go, Patriots!

The Ridgefield Academy Patriots are competing for the first time in a new area – the robotics field mat! Our new robotics team will be competing in a First Lego League competition at St. Mary School in Ridgefield tomorrow – wish them luck!

Here’s an example of the great work that one of our team members did his first time ever programming a robot. Mission accomplished!

Good luck tomorrow, Patriots!

Student exploration in Minecraft

One of the reasons that Minecraft is such an engrossing game for the kids that play it is because they are thrown into a world and forced to make meaning from everything around them. Here is one student’s exploration of the world that he helped create.

Intro to Minecraft

It was clear that many of our students had a lot of experience with Minecraft when some were building Rube Goldberg machines on the very first day of the fall Minecraft enrichment club.