Every year at Notre Dame we have an annual Balsa Bridge Contest for those students currently in Physics 11 and 12. Each student must build a bridge that is able to support a certain amount of weight and must also make it look very presentable and durable.

Here is the current record holder:

2000 Winner and current record holder
120004 Matthew Sullivan
209. 4 kg

http://www.balsabridge.com/
http://www.myndrs.com/bridge07/index.html

Sponsors:

Here is an additional link found on the Balsa Bridge website:

http://www.goldengatebridge.org/

Vancouver is a city of many interesting bridges. Here's my favorite:

The Capilano Suspension Bridge

A bridge that has "cracked under the pressure"

curretnly in ICT we have all been very busy working on our Multiform Project. for this project we had to create a form in Visual Basic that consisted of many forms put together to create an overall one of a kind program. we also had to have a theme that ran throughout the whole project and we also included some other VB projects such as the Paint Program, Pearl Game and etc... for my theme i chose cupcakes and i changed many of my existing programs to match my overall theme of my Multiform Project.

here are some pictures that i added into my Multiform Project:

recently i have downloaded Visual C++ on my home computer. once exams are finished we are going to work on the first assignment called "Hello World".

Computer Disassembly

During the month of December we were able to take apart a Compaq comptuer. Once we were supplied with the computer we were also handed a set of tools that were used to take apart the comptuer. After recieving all tools we printed out a list of things that were supposed to be taken out of the comptuer such as, the motherboard, CPU cooling fans, RAM, CD-ROM, and etc...after taking out all the parts that were included within the list we had to some how put the computer back together. My partner and I had some troubles remembering where some of the parts belonged and how to put it back. However, once we figured out where all the obvious parts went the rest was very easy. We also had to see if the computer worked after putting the comptuer back together. After the experience i had with taking apart a computer, I now know what parts do what within a computer. Before all i knew was how to turn it on hahahha.

Google Analytics

i have signed up for Google Analytics and have ran the program for a week. I have gotten 25 vistors mainly from Vancouver and one from Burnaby.

In Information & Communications Technology 12 we are currently working with many programs such as, TurboPascal, Visual Basic and C++. However, at this moment we are working with the language program Turbo Pascal. This program allows you to experience the language of the computer.