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Touching tomorrow's discoveries with today's minds.
September 10th, 2011 - Vol 2, Issue 8
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| Greetings! |
Summer is gone and school is already here, but before we move into our Fall programs, our staff wants to say Thank You! We had around 400 students this summer and for the most part, everything went amazingly well. If you would like to talk to us about this summer and how it went (good or bad), please visit; http://www.gatewaysinternational.ca/feedback.htm for feedback. Registration is now open for our fall classes and we are excited to see the new season start. So many things are on the go that it's hard to go over everything in one newsletter. In this issue, we will look at the following topics; - What's coming this fall for the lower mainland!
- Entrepreneurial Classes - Patrick Giesbrecht
- Digital Arts - Steve Stancyzk
- Multiple Intelligence
- TechItout Tournament
- Open House at Gateways Learning Centre
- First LEGO League meeting
- LEGO Space Station Video
- Arduino Robotics Curriculum is coming soon!
- Tech and Media Manager wanted!
- Online Store
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Entrepreneurial Classes - Patrick Giesbrecht
| Gateways is pleased to announce that Patrick Giesbrecht will be teaching our business classes at our learning centre and will be teaching online.
 Patrick has been an entrepreneur at heart since his earliest memories but moved into an auto body mechanics career after school on the advice from family that he needed a trade to fall back on. 10 years later, in 2000, he ventured into the business world and his life was profoundly changed. It wasn't long before Patrick realized that one of the biggest thrills he got from being in business was building relationships with suppliers, potential clients and colleagues. And while the first business failed spectacularly, he realized that a whole new world had opened up for him.
To learn more about Patrick, please visit our consulting website at; http://www.i-gate.ca/consultants.htm
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Digital Arts - Steve Stancyzk
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Students will learn the preliminary elements of the Adobe Photoshop program including working with layers, transparency, numerous filters and tools such as cloning, painting, and various artistic effects. Students will also learn how to import, manipulate, edit and print images using Photoshop. To create digital artwork pieces, students will use both their digital cameras (if they have them) and a scanner to import photos, drawings and other material such as magazine pictures. Students will also learn how to prepare images for both the internet and printing, including cropping, pixel and dpi dimensions and sizing.
To learn more, please visit;
http://www.gatewaysinternational.ca/digitalartsclass.htm
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Multiple Intelligences
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 | | Howard Gardner of The Multiple Intelligence Theory |
At Gateways we believe that our school system has lost it's way and has based a lot of it's understanding upon the IQ test. As Howard Gardner speaks upon the limitations on such a failing system, Gateways is building a winning system where we see all children as gifted.
To find out more, please visit our Academically Gifted program;
http://www.gatewaysinternational.ca/academicallygifted.htm
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TechITout Tournament
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Gateways Open House
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Gateways will hold an Open House in October in order to show our appreciation to everyone who has taken classes with us. We will be holding the event in Abbotsford and it will run October 22nd. Some of the events will be; 1. Mindstorms competition; Robot Wars! 2. Video Game Designer; Who can build the best video game in 3 hrs? 3. LEGO Builders; Who can build the strongest LEGO crane? 4. Build with a LEGO Master, http://www.brickville.ca/ and have a great time building with a master. 5. Computer Animator 6. LEGO Digital Designer 7. And more! 9am to 4pm.
Cost: $10
There will be prizes for participants. Location: Gateways Learning Centre #201 2121 Clearbrook rd Abbotsford BC For more info or to register, please click here .
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First LEGO League
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And so it begins! Last year, Gateways came 5th at the provincials and it was a close one. We are looking at creating a new team for this year.
We will be holding a parent's meeting Thursday at 6pm at http://www.surreylibraries.ca/location-hours/4686.aspx. Please call the office to let us know that you will be meeting us there.
To find out more, please visit; http://www.gatewaysbotshop.com/firstlegoleague.htm.
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Online Store
| Many parents have asked if we will be selling kits for our classes and we can now say yes! We are offering curriculum packages and Lego and Robotics kits at the moment and will look at offering more resources in the future.
http://www.gatewaysbotshop.com/apps/webstore/
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Tech and Media Teacher wanted
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We need a teacher/manager to help teach students grades K-10 beginning, intermediate robotics and programming with Lego Mindstorms robot kits, wedo education and other fun programs. Who also can teach these other classes and help develop curriculum. For more info, please visit; http://www.i-gate.ca/techandmediamanager.htm .
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| Save 5% | Our Summer Camps are coming! Join one of our camps and receive 5 percent off now. We are offering the following camps; LEGO Robotics, Video Game Design, Publish your own book, Website Design, and more! We will be offering a new array of programs starting in the fall so check us out on the web; www.gatewaysinternational.ca
| | Offer Expires: September 30th, 2011 |
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