Bacon had a great first meeting of the 2018-2019 school year this past Thursday. We were so excited to see our new members come out and we can’t wait to see what we accomplish this year! All of our clubs: FTC, ZR, Green BACON, Science Olympiad, SPARK, Science Fair, ESL BACON, Media and Logistics met […]
UPDATE: Green Bacon: Trying to include the school in grassroots efforts to improve the carbon footprint. Zero Robotics: Adjusting code! FTC: Building a robot (as usual) Competing again soon! The robot has omnidirectional driving, and it must be able to shoot a ball and autonomously press a […]
Welcome to all BACON members for our 2016-2017 year! So far, all groups are hard at work on their various projects and competitions.
BACON’s first meeting occurred today! We had the club leaders explain the various groups within BACON, had a registration session, and even set off a rocket! If you missed today’s meeting, you can still register by clicking this link. Thank you to all who came for this meeting. This is going to be a great […]
Today, a field trip to the engineering labs at UVA was announced! It will take place from 1st-5th periods next Friday. If you are at all interested, please talk to Maddie Bright or Dr. Shields for a field trip form. There are only 12 spots left! Two people from UVA came to talk to us […]
This week, our Science Bowl team continued to prepare for their competition on February 5th. The Science Olympiad teams also continued working on their projects, by either studying or building, for those in engineering events. On a side note, one of our members is constructing a Ruben’s Tube out of a ten foot pipe. This […]
This week, our Science Olympiad group broke up into three different teams, and within each team, several members were assigned categories. Some example categories include: Helicopter, Write it Do it, Experimental Design, and Disease Detectives. Each team will compete at the Science Olympiad competition on February 25th. Wish us luck! […]