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Enrichment Opportunities

Online Building Valuable Skill Set for Life

8/13/2021

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Lifehack believes in skills that multiply your time, energy and overall quality of life.
In this rapid changing world, traditional education skills just don’t cut it anymore. You can’t afford to take years learning a skill you’ll never really practice. Below are the three free courses which aim to train some of the Core Life Multipliers including:

 *how to learn faster – Spark Your Learning Genius
 *how to stay motivated – Activate Your Motivation
 *how to stop procrastinating to sharpen your focus – No More Procrastination

These are cross functional skills that work across many aspects of life.
https://www.lifehack.org/free-classes

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Learning for Lives Workshop

4/14/2021

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Earn an enrichment credit for joining any STEM sessions at the Learning for Lives Workshop!  On April 17 and 18, learn awesome skills like coding, forensics, meditation, cooking, and more, all while contributing to lifesaving cancer treatments at St. Jude. Fill out the interest form at tinyurl.com/learningforlives, and the event organizers will contact you with more information.
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(Note: This event is not organized by or directly associated with the Engineering Academy.)
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Instant Challenges Competition!!!

10/12/2020

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The Engineering Academy will be hosting a bracket-like competition, open to all academy students. The top students in each bracket will advance to the next challenge.
Cash Prizes will be awarded!!! *subject to change
1st place: $35
2nd place: $15
3rd place: T-shirt
​4th place: Mug
To sign up for the competition click on the link below. ​(maximum of 64 participants!)
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70A0C4AADAA23AAF85-instant
The first round of the competition is: 
​November 1st!!
For more information on the Instant Challenges Competition, check out the file below.
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Instant Challenge Competition Instructions.pdf
File Size: 29 kb
File Type: pdf
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Rube Goldberg Competition!!!

10/8/2020

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The Engineering Academy will be hosting a Rube Goldberg competition open to all academy students.
Cash Prizes will be awarded!!!
1st place: $35
2nd place: $15
To submit a video of your Rube Goldberg, fill out the form below.
https://forms.gle/3uVvzJFifLQffy3aA
All videos are due by the last day of the Mechanical season
(October 23,2020 by 11:59pm)
​For instructions and constraints on the Rube Goldberg, check out the file below.
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Rube Goldberg Competition Instuructions.pdf
File Size: 30 kb
File Type: pdf
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Engineering Seminar Series

7/23/2020

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Presenting the Engineering Seminar Series, featuring engaging speakers from various Engineering fields. The event will run from August 3 - 7 at 2 pm each day on Zoom. The event is open to students, parents and educators from all schools. Sign up now! https://www.tinyurl.com/2020easeminar
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    Ongoing Enrichment Opportunities

    Link here

    DOCUMENTS

    Enrichment Form
    File Size: 312 kb
    File Type: docx
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    REQUIREMENT

    Academy students must participate in a minimum of one enrichment activity per nine weeks, for a total of four enrichment activities each school year.

    Students must submit the Enrichment Form through Schoology for each activity they complete.

    SUBMISSION DEADLINES

    First Semester
    - 
     December 31*, 2020
    ​Second Semester
    ​- 
    May 10, 2021

    * Deadline has been extended.

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