American football – Torbay Trojans Training 20/8/2023 – Review
Training;
- Date: Sunday 20th August 2023.
- Time: 10:00 to 13:00
- Location: Foxhole Field, Foxhole, Paignton
Great session today, footwork drills, tackling practice, and passing catchig practice. We also spent time setting up a net on a frame to use for snap / passing target. This will be used at the Pride event on the 2nd September. but also at the upcoming recruitment day on 10th September.
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Astronomers Scan 11,680 Nearby Stars for Signals from Advanced Civilizations
More research on looking for life and intelligent life in outer space.
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California Hurricane
This isn't being reported on BBC news, as far as I am aware, granted it is like to be a tropical storm by the time it reaches land, nevertheless it will still be a devastating storm.
Hurricanes are NOT normal in California.
Meanwhile Canada still burns! As far as I am aware, Yellowknife is facing serious damage and probably loss of life.
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What do we get from crude oil part 3
So going back to the previous post on this the infographic listed different products we get from crude oil. In part 2 I just listed these products.
I have now used Wikipedia to try and link to a page on as many of these as possible. While this is not an academic source of information. This is just for information purposes.
What we get from crude oil
Which I think is most of them. In subsequent posts I will try and link to information on each of the above. In the meantime feel free to join the Fediverse and help contribute to this.
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Trojans Recruitment day – Coming Soon
Recruitment day
- Date: Sunday 10th September 2023.
- Time: 10:00 to 13:00
- Location: Foxhole Community Centre Field, Bellfield Road, Paignton
- Info : See website and social media
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Team Status
We are rebuilding the team, looking for players, coaches and support personnel. Please see team social media for information.
Please join us on this journey.
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American football – Torbay Trojans Training 20/8/2023 – Reminder
Training;
- Date: Sunday 20th August 2023.
- Time: 10:00 to 13:00
- Location: Foxhole Field, Foxhole, Paignton
Links
Team Status
We are rebuilding the team, looking for players, coaches and support personnel. Please see team social media for information.
Please join us on this journey.
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#Trojans,#Football,#Training,#TorbayTrojans,
#AlwaysTrojan
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Code Club 19/8/2023 Write up
So this week, we started the attendees with more Hour of Code activities. We are slowly starting to move towards learning text based programming languages and away from Scratch.
The hour of code activities allow for block programming but the resulting block code be viewed as java based code which is really useful for building that link.
In order to support this I had a go at Mario secret advantures which helps to build some of the many important features of gaming, movement, collision, scoring etc.
I have just made a video and uploaded to peer tube, my system is a little slow so I have left out the music part, but the main point of this exercise is to use loops to reduce code needed.
Next code club 2nd September.
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Code Club – testing input
Once you have code working nicely, it is a good idea to add in error checking so that when asking for user input, what is put in to the program matches what is required.
We can ask a user for a numerical value so we know how many times to repeat the loop. How do we test for this.
letter = rawinput(“Enter your name “)
i = letter.isalpha()
while i != True:
print(“Input MUST use letters”)
letter = rawinput(“Name “)
i = letter.isalpha()
print letter
In this example, the user is asked to enter their name, this is stored and checked that is is actually a alphabetical character a-z or A-Z.
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Home heating alternatives
Interesting video showing an activity to investigate which sort of materials are good at thermal storage. Read more here
This is the sort of thing that we can try at a future STEM group meeting
As this was found on the Fediverse, please see the related fedi thread
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#Science,#Materials.#ThermalProperties
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STEM Group 9th September 2023 – Details
As previously mentioned, we will be in room 12, as there is more room for STEM activities. This gives us more space, access to resources as well as sinks, work surfaces and other items.
I have planned some practical science activities which will be around using Bicarbonate of Soda and Vinegar. To keep things simple I will just set up TWO experiments.
This will be:
- Using this mixture in a zip lock bag to demonstrate air pressure
- Make a cool pack. This demonstrates Endothermic reactions
- Planning and risk assessment can be found here
In addition to this we can still do
- Computing
- As the programmable caterpillars proved popular, I have requested if we can have them again for September
And take a look at what people bring with them.
More info
Please get in touch for further details or to suggest ideas. Please check back here for updates to what is planned or see my main blog for more frequent updates.
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