Category: Programs

Robotics

Students Power Up Robots for Competition

The Alameda Robotics Center is holding its inaugural Alameda Robotics Center tournament on Saturday, May 7, 2016 from 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM in the Wood Middle School Makerspace, located at 420 Grand St.

About 50 students from Wood Middle, Lum Elementary, Ruby Bridges Elementary, Nea, and Encinal Jr. High School will be participating in the competition in which teams compete to see whose robots can complete a series of tasks for the most points.  

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Volleyball Championships on deck!

Volleyball Championships on deck!

Come check out the AEF Middle School Sports volleyball playoffs and championships this week! Playoffs begin Tuesday, 11/19/13, when the #4 Jr. Jets take on #1 Lincoln Lions in the A division, while Wood (#4) battles the Lions in the B division. On Wednesday, 11/20/13, it’s #3 Academy of Alameda challenging #2 Wood in the A division and Bay Farm (#3) against Jr. Jets (#2) in the B division. Then, Thursday, 11/21,

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AEF Middle School Basketball Results

Academy Olympians and Lincoln Lions Claim Titles

Alameda, CA (March 1, 2013) – The Academy of Alameda Olympians Boys A team showed their dominance in a 59 – 46 win over the Wood Beavers at the Alameda Education Foundation’s Middle School basketball boys championships on Feb. 26th.  With size, speed and a strong shooting arsenal, they had no trouble defending their #1 position over a worthy opponent.

In the B division,

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Lions Roar at Middle School Volleyball Championships

Lincoln Middle School Clinches Wins in Exciting Matches

Lincoln Middle School came into last week’s Alameda Education Foundation (AEF) Middle School Volleyball Championships with a comfortable number one seed, but strong challengers turned the matches into nail biters that went down to the wire.

In the A (varsity) team championships, Lincoln took the first game over the Academy of Alameda handedly, 25 – 7. But the Olympians tamed the Lions’ roar to a soft mew in the second game,

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Helping Students Find Their Sine

Funds from the Equipped 4 Success school supply drive are used to purchase graphing calculators for Alameda public high schools.

Geometry can be challenging enough in itself. But imagine having to make calculations using a giant grid of trigonometry calculations and then using these calculations to multiply or divide to solve for a missing side length. Whew! It is surely as tedious as it sounds and it puts the emphasis on not making a math mistake rather than learning necessary geometry standards.

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Equipped 4 Success

Thank you, Alameda! The Equipped 4 Success school supply drive was a huge success!

This summer, several organizations joined together to run a community-wide school supply drive called “Equipped 4 Success.” Our goal was to fill backpacks with school supplies for 800 low-income students served by the Alameda Unified School District’s McKinney-Vento program for homeless families, the Alameda Point Collaborative for formerly homeless families, and the Alameda Boys and Girls Club.

Thanks to you,

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