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Teen Tech Day By Sainaath Vivekanantha

On Tuesday 1st December 2015

10 students of riddlesdown collegieate went to the copper box arena


Tech Teen Ciry


The copper box area


We explored lots of tings and it was amazing



Gosh  someone won a tablet


Our school won  a firetrap robot and a 10 pound gift voucher , Bloomberg tv


This was a fun activivty better than schoool subject

Teen Tech At the Copper Box Arena with Riddlesdown's Digital Leaders!

On Tuesday 1st December, the Digital Leaders of Riddlesdown Collegiate attended Teen Tech at the Copper Box Arena (the venue for the 2012 Summer Olympics & 2012 Summer Paralympics).

The event lasted the whole day and we enjoyed it very much and also learned a lot of cool things. First, we did the DIY Your Own Invention Challenge, for this we had to make an invention that would improve the safety or standard of living. We chose to make a kitchen automation system that would enable your hob, oven, microwave or any other kitchen appliance that you can think of to be controlled by a smartphone, tablet and website. After making the designs and circuit diagrams & filling out some sheets on who the product targeted, how it looked, etc, we had to present our work in the form of a product pitch while being judged on our idea & our creativity. We did win one award & it was very fun to do.

After this we went on to visit some stands put up by different companies in the science & technology sector. We visited the stands of Fire Tech, Bloomberg, National Rail, and a few other companies as well.

The experience at Bloomberg was especially fun, we had to function as a human computer working in a group to sort a bunch of tweets into:

1. the subject of the tweet (what movie it was about)
2. the adjective(s) used to describe the movie (good or bad)

and then we had to rate the movie as good or bad and determine which movie was the best. We also had to present our results and we chose to do it in a graphical form, by counting the number of good words and placing them on a bar graph. We had to complete this task in 10 minutes, so it was quite a tough challenge. We managed to cover 43 tweets. Not the highest (49) but certainly a lot.

Then we broke out to visit stands of our choice, after which we headed for lunch. There were many different companies presenting & there was a robots stand, which had RoboThespian and NAO  (pronounced "now") showing off their skills to the audience.

At another stand we saw there were speakers producing directed sound (this allows us to focus sound at exactly one point and allow the target to hear the sound only in that specific area) by means of using ultrasonic sound waves (wavelength at ~20 kHz) to send sound & then our ear amazingly demodulates these high frequencies to hear whatever is being played on the speakers, without the person next to us being able to hear it!
They also had an invisibility cloak, which reflected blue light off a grey cloth (the cloak), then the computer removed all that was blue in the picture (including the Aquila students' ties!).

There were many other such stands and although we didn't have time to visit all of them, it was very exciting!

At the end of the day, there was a prize distribution:

Due to our presentation & amount of tweets scanned our team won a prize from Bloomberg and that was...
A trip to Bloomberg's headquarters!! We get to visit Bloomberg sometime soon & get a view of their internal workings, and possibly even get a coding tutorial! :-)

We enjoyed the day at Teen Tech City in London very much and we hope to go again, sometime.

-Chaitanya K

On Tuesday 1st December, Riddlesdowns Digital Leaders attended Teen Tech at the Copper Box Arena in the Olympic Park

2015-2016 Digitial Leaders are back!

code.org And Make Your Own Flappy Bird

Super Smash Bros. 3DS Demo

After playing around and experimenting with the demo, I decided to write up a article about it. It features 3 Veteran fighters (Mario, Pikachu and Link) and 2 Newcomers (Animal Crossing Villager and Mega Man) who fight on the classic Battlefield stage. This demo has readied me for the full version, getting a feel of the controls and gameplay, seeing how this legendary franchise will play on a handheld. This demo has made me trust the 3DS version even more than I already did, the stereoscopic graphics look fine and shiny, comparable to the Wii U's HD display. Playing it showed me what the graphics looked like as images and YouTube videos or Twitch streams made them look blurrier and lesser than actuality since the official site would always show off more Wii U screenshots trying to undermine the 3DS truly great graphics. Despite originally finding the 60 FPS a lot faster than Brawl, I agree that is it is suited to that speed and works perfectly for competitive play.

This demo has psyched me even more for the October 3rd full release and shown me a glimpse of just how good Sakurai's masterpiece will be.

Download the European demo from the Nintendo 3DS eShop via this QR code:

App Review: Plague Inc.

Plague Inc. is a strategy game for iOS and Android in which you attempt to infect a plague across the world, there are 3 difficulty modes: Causal, Normal and Brutal. You can evolve your plague by improving how dangerous the symptoms are, the different forms of transmission and the abilities of the plague, this is done with DNA points, acquired when pop red and orange DNA bubbles. You must also stop the cure before they eliminate your plague, you can make your plague genetically hardened and drug resistant in the Abilities section to prevent the speed of global cure rate and by popping blue cure bubbles. They are different types of plagues, some easier than others as they infect differently and have different weaknesses. Humorously you can name your plague anything (I called mine Cyrus and Bieber as I treat them as musical plagues!). You begin in a chosen country, some easier than others dependant on real-life population, wealth and climate. Also there are several in-app purchases to upgrade your playing experience.

Tips: Begin in China as it is the most populous country and eliminates the most of the world.
Begin with simple evolution, then more complex.

Happy infecting ! (• ◡•) (❍ᴥ❍ʋ) (﹡︠﹏ु﹡︡)
Download: iOS: http://tinyurl.com/PlagueInciOS Android: http://tinyurl.com/PlagueIncAndroid

2048 Review

2048 is a really fun app that you can download on many devices. It is a game where you have to double numbers in a 4 by 4 square until you reach 2048, but the numbers all move when you swipe one way, making it very difficult but adding to the addictiveness of the game. It is very fun and you will definitely waste many hours a day trying to reach 2048 or trying to at least beat a friend or a family member. The game is good for maths and strategic/puzzle skills.

Happy doubling! Jacob Farrington :)

App Review: Domino's Pizza Maker

Domino's Pizza Maker is a free app exclusively for iPad devices only, in which you become a employee at Domino's Pizza and master each specific stage within pizza making, some simple, others irritating and tedious gameplay. There is a free-roam in which you create of any size, shape or style. (I created a Pac-Man pizza and even a sauceless and cheeseless pizza!) The gameplay can become tedious and is more enjoyably played on short intervals and occasional as 5-minute silliness, but is engrossing towards younger children, which could viewed both positive and negative as a "bit of fun" or a commercial source to child obesity. You can also place a real-life delivery order from the app, which is quick and easy.
Download: http://tinyurl.com/DominosPizzaGame

My employee ID card.

Tomodachi Life: Green Frog and Ham

On the 9th of June 2014, one of the most long-awaited fictional weddings  finally took place in Tomodachi Life!? The wedding of... Kermit The Frog and Miss Piggy! They now live in a house as well as constant revisits to the apartment complex and meeting new friends. After they had a fitting relaxing honeymoon in America.

Tomodachi Life Day 2: The Madness Continues

With more humorous rap battles, sing-songs and heartbreaks, the island is only growing itself into a uncontrollable craziness. With added Miis, the Mario Brothers made their beginnings in the music industry, as they took to the stage in a rapping debut, esteemed professor Mario made a news-worthy discovery of Body Roller Cleaners. Plus Ciaran and Calum's Hawaiian vacation.

The Mario Bros. awesome rapping debut

The discovery of body roll cleaners

Peach on a beach (RYHME!)  

More raps... 

In Hawaii

Treasure your Game Boy, it's highly useful. 

I've done a summary of 2 days of my Miis' wacky lives, so from now on I'll only do a Tomodachi life post if important e.g. wedding occurs or crazier than Japanese insanity

Calum's Tomodachi Life Journal: Day 1

The bizarreness has only just began on Candy Apple Island. Friendships growing, freakish dreams and a beautiful love ballad by Peach and Mario and humorous rap battles. I have opened Supermarket, Concert Hall, Interiors, Clothes and Hats. Friendships and love are developing in Mario and Peach, hopefully. I'm best friends with Ciaran Brennan, my best friend in real life already! Luffy loved his straw hat and I loved pizza (one my favourite foods in real life!) !!! It is luck and coincidence or does this game have a knowledge of real life?!

Peach and Mario's beautiful love ballad 

A word chain battle of food. Ciaran Brennan vs Marceline 

Luffy wearing his iconic red-banded straw hat 

Mario's oddball dream of being a robotic superhero  

Peach is having a nightmare! About my hideous face!

My Miis 

Calum MacDonald

Ciaran Brennan (My best friend, a Phoenix student in 8AJV)

Mario

Peach 

Luffy (One Piece)

Marceline The Vampire Queen (Adventure Time)

I will soon add Kermit The Frog, Miss Piggy, Luigi and Jacob Farrington (a awesome fellow Digital Leader)

Buy: http://www.game.co.uk/en/tomodachi-life-283577

Goat Simulator - New Update

The always favorite Goat simulator has got a new update that I have found REALLY improves the gameplay,
For my Old review on Goat simulator click here
For Calum's review of the Shrek mod click here

Just Because

The New update of Goat Simulator have brought on some amazing new features as well as a new map.

The Great new Features:

• New local split screen multiplayer allowing you to play goat sim with more then 1 person, more action and more damage.
• New map - which includes a fairground, try and get on to the rollercoaster and hold on.
• Humans have got better API - they can now speak and react to you, they can sit down on bench and hide and run away from you if you are wrecking things. They are still glitchy if you are just charging and destroying everything in your path, then you just see in the distance a human just falling over a park bench, it is hilarious.
• More goats added
• More achievements
• You can now parkour and run up walls which is super fun and makes it easier to get to certain spots, this goat has definitely got super goat powers.
• You can now ride bikes as well as skateboards although I have found it super hard to control, I am sure it will get easier with practice.
• Humans can now ride goats! It's goat madness!
• You can now buy hats with money.
• New "more realistic" water, you now just flop around while trying to get out.
• New sound effects
• New minecraft add on, makes you able to place blocks!

This game has some other features although I just put in the best.
The Coffee Stain Studio full patch notes Click here to see they are amazing!

Geography Website Review

Revision Review: Skoool

Skoool is a e-learning website made by LGFL in association with Smartech and Intel consisting of Maths and 3 sciences which are then separated into sub-categories. It has different ways to learn: step-by-step guides explained simply by animated diagrams and text read by a voice-synthesised, American accent. Interactive activities to experiment with scientific forces, nature and technology.

Also quizzes to test your learnt knowledge.

Site-
http://www.skoool.co.uk

EAL/ESL Review

English is known as the hardest language if you are not of English-speaking origin with many complex grammar rules and spellings. So prepare to learn the 3rd most widely spoken language in the world with a selection of useful and helpful websites: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/-Definitive and essential guide from BBC World Service.
http://www.rong-chang.com/  - Created by a Chinese doctorate Ron-Chang Lee with a PHD in English Language, very useful.
http://a4esl.org - has bilingual translations of languages from across the globe, useful for any ESL student for any country.
Enjoy! Apprécier! Tanoshimu! Disfrutar! Xiǎngshòu! Jeulgyeo! سے لطف اندوز! 

InFamous Second son

This is a game about a person named Desmond who gets super powers and uncovers a that the leader of a Anti "Bio-terrorist" group.

EAL / ESL Websites

English is a very hard language to learn, but you'll get the hang of it eventually! Try these websites to help you learn English:

• learnenglish.britishcouncil.org
• www.learnenglish.org.uk
• englishgrammar.org

Have fun learning English

Jacob:)

SEN Website Review

SEN stands for Special Educational Needs. This means that people need certain things to help them progress in their education. The website that I found ( www.senteacher.org ) gives resources to help SEN pupils to learn. It is for many different types of SEN. I could not find many general websites for SEN but you can find ones for separate forms. Also, try this quiz about what type of learner you are: http://www.bbc.co.uk/keyskills/extra/module1/2.shtml

Jacob :)