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Final Standings

Leader board at end of class

Parker B 226 levels completed

Emory K 183 levels completed

Grayson P 154 levels completed
Sophia W 131 levels completed
Elias U 125 levels completed
Jose C 122 levels completed

Riana A 107 levels completed
Jayvin N 96 levels completed
Sander R 89 levels completed
Tyler P 89 levels completed
Brody R 82 levels completed

Sadly, our time together has come to an end.

This week is our last week together. I need you to have all work completed and submitted by 5 pm on Thursday, June 4th so that I have a chance to compile grades.  
By Thursday, everyone should have completed at least 72 levels and the bonus for completing 100 levels is that I will go back to any of the weeks we have been out and you did not reach the limit for that week, I will raise your grade to 100 for each of those weeks. 
Your accounts should stay active through the end of June. You will see your improvement in the online scoreboard, along with all bragging rights that entails, but I will no longer be able to update grades at that point.  

Leader board right now
Alex M 249 levels completed
Parker B 226 levels completed

Emory K 183 levels completed

Grayson P 154 levels completed
Sophia W 131 levels completed
Elias U 125 levels completed
Jose C 122 levels completed

Riana A 106 levels completed
Jayvin N 96 levels completed

As of 1:00 pm 6/4


For those that are attempting the Python Gym, the first two levels do not give you any points the way they are written now, but after you finish them the way they are set up, if you select "Try Again" then copy and paste the code below into your coding panel, you will earn 100 points for each:

from robot import Robot

import time

robot = Robot({"communication":{"communication_manager_type":"js"}})

# start your code here:

robot.cs.drive_distance(1150)

A message from our school nurse

Nurse Kris sent this out this morning and I don't know how to get it to everyone that it might help

Please share with your school community:

Children who received free or reduced-price meals at school can get extra food benefits called Pandemic EBT or P-EBT, due to COVID-19. Families can get $365 per eligible child on a P-EBT card to use groceries. If families haven't received a P-EBT card in the mail, they can apply online thru June 30, 2020. More than 250,000 kids across San Diego County are eligible for $365 through P-EBT!

Find out if you’re eligible in less than 2 minutes, by applying at ca.p-ebt.org.

School Leaderboard

By the end of week 5, everyone should have completed at least 60 levels - these students have done a whole lot more

Alex M 249 levels completed
Parker B 225 levels completed

Emory K 183 levels completed

Grayson P 147 levels completed
Elias U 125 levels completed
Sophia W 125 levels completed
Jose C 122 levels completed

Riana A 106 levels completed
Jayvin N 96 levels completed

As of 6:30 am 5/30

Although you only need to get a total of 72 levels to earn a 100% for the 6 weeks, if you hit 100 levels, I will go back and change any missing CoderZ weeks to 100% as well.  Are you up to the challenge? You will still need to do one level a week so I know that you are trying, but if you get to 100, you will end out the year with six A+ grades in my gradebook. 8 students have done it so far.

For those that are attempting the Python Gym, the first two levels do not give you any points the way they are written now, but after you finish them the way they are set up, if you select "Try Again" then copy and paste the code below into your coding panel, you will earn 100 points for each:

from robot import Robot

import time

robot = Robot({"communication":{"communication_manager_type":"js"}})

# start your code here:

robot.cs.drive_distance(1150)

CoderZ Stole My Points

I had 7 levels left to complete in the Python Gym and I would have completed all 4 courses of CoderZ.  It was not for lack of trying that I could not get those last levels.  I spent over 4 hours on one, but every time I clicked on run to test my program, CoderZ would lock up and I would have to log out and log back in to make changes.  I let the engineers at Intelitek know and they "fixed" it.  They really did make everything better, but in the process they made it so teachers do not earn points for doing levels. I logged in today and competed a level before realizing my 37500 points were gone - oh, so close: ( 

Also, on a side note about wearing masks to prevent the spread of Covid-19.  I see a lot of stupid people on TV that do not understand this pretty simple concept.  Masks do not protect the wearer from getting a virus, they help prevent a person from spreading a virus. Short of a full MOPP-IV suit that we wear in the military, the masks that you wear do not filter the air you are breathing in, it stops the air you are breathing out from traveling as far as it would without a covering. An N95 mask they wear in the ICU wards in a hospital filters out 95% of the airborne particles, not 100%. So, every medical worker puts their lives at risk taking care of people that did not follow the rules.
Washing your hands is still the best way to protect yourself, but wearing a mask blocks the spread of particulates when you talk, cough or sneeze. Many people are not showing symptoms when they are at a contagious stage and go out into public places spreading the virus while they feel perfectly healthy. 
California has done a great job at keeping our contagion numbers down, as of 6 pm on 5/13 we have about 40 million people living in California and had over 1 million people tested. Of those 73,000 were confirmed to have been infected with Covid-19. Right now only 7.3% of Californians that were tested ended up having the virus, that is only 0.18% of the total population because of how quickly we were told to shelter in place.  Please keep it up, if we keep our numbers low, the hospitals can do a better job keeping up and saving our lives.  

Attendance for GTT

In order to get credit for being in class each week, I need you to complete at least one level each week.  If for some reason you are not able to complete one level, shoot me an email to let me know. Cjohnson10@sandi.net - sorry, if you are one of those that have completed 100 or more levels, I understand if you take a break.  

THANK YOU - to all of those that keep powering through the levels.  This morning when I went to pull scores, I captured the levels from CoderZ Adventures, Cyber Robotics 101, Cyber Robotics 102 and the Python Gym.  By the time I got back to CoderZ Adventures, students had done another 22 levels.  - WAY TO GO!!!