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February 2016

ACS Connect

High School Edition

SATRO STEM Challenge

ACS Middle and High School
students took part in the
local competition on 26
January. Teams were
instructed to use the
materials provided to
construct a timer that would
light a bulb. Regional finals
will be held in the ACS
Sports Centre on 17 March.

In this issue you will find information about resources and events you can connect with in February
and beyond. Please keep an eye on the Highly Able Weebly tab Open Enrichment Activities for
updates: http://highlyable.weebly.com/ open-enrichment-opportunities.html
Digital Creativity Workshop

From Neurons to Consciousness

Plato, Gdel, and Mathematics

February 8th and 10th after school

February 29th after-school trip to

February 26th after-school trip to

From 15:45-16:30, Grades 8-10

the New College of Humanities

the New College of Humanities

Are you looking for an opportunity to

Professor Steven Pinker, of Harvards

Rebecca Goldstein, a MacArthur-

hone your digital skills? Come check

Department of Psychology, will deliver

winning novelist and philosopher,

out this student-led workshop on

his annual NCH lecture series on the

explains the philosophical vision that

creativity through technology. Over

foundations of neuroscience. This is a

inspired Gdels mathematics, and

two sessions you will learn about light-

great opportunity for students

reveals the ironic twist that led to

painting techniques to create unique

considering a career in the field of

radical misinterpretations of his

images with a battery-powered device

medicine or research. Pinker is highly

theorems by the trendier intellectual

that uses persistence of vision to create

regarded for his Theory of Language

fashions of the day, from positivism to

floating image. Places in this workshop

Acquisition, his research on Syntax,

postmodernism. Dont miss this great

are limited. Please contact Ms

Morphology, and the Mechanism of

opportunity for interdisciplinary

Herschleb to reserve your place.

Human Cognition.

learning (especially TOK students!)

Biology Challenge is an individual competition which takes place in schools and is

open to 13-15 year old pupils in the UK. Questions will be set on the school
curriculum but the Biology Challenge will also reward those students whose
knowledge of the subject has been increased by reading books and magazines,
watching natural history programmes, taking notice of the news media for items of
biological interest, and are generally aware of our natural flora and fauna. The
competition takes place between March 7th and 22nd. Please see Ms Herschleb for info.

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HS ACS Connect

Book Recommendations from

Librarian Mrs Van Dort
Unflattening by Nick Sousanis
An experiment in visual thinking,
offering both a stunning work of
graphic art and a serious inquiry into
the ways humans construct knowledge.
Burma Chronicles by Guy Delisle
Burma is notorious for its use of
concealment and isolation as social
control: where scissor-wielding
censors monitor the papers, the de
facto leader of the opposition has been
under decade-long house arrest,
insurgent-controlled regions are
effectively cut off from the world, and
rumour is the most reliable source of
current information.

Opportunities Around London

Worlds Elsewhere: How

the same name installed at Somerset

Shakespeare Went Global", A

House. The exhibition focuses on 13

Talk by Andrew Dickson

vitrines filled with everyday objects

Tuesday 16 February 2016, 7 pm

that each represent a single moment

Anti-apartheid activist, Bollywood

within the relationship, interwoven

screenwriter, hero of the Wild West:

with film by celebrated director Grant

this is Shakespeare as you have never

Gee, original material about the

seen him before. Andrew Dickson has

making of the museum and facsimile

traced the impact of the Bards words

manuscripts of the novel.

across four continents, six countries

and 400 years to discover just how one
man from Stratford-upon-Avon
became an international

The book recommendations this month

are both Graphic Novels. If youd like
to learn more about how authors and
artists use this medium to tell stories in
a unique way, make time to watch
Michael Chaneys illuminating TED
talk, "Learning to See the Social, or
How to Read a Graphic Novel". The
talk explores how this complex
medium makes abstractions visible
through distortion and caricature and
that panels are not always what they
seem. http://tinyurl.com/gw9z8p9

phenomenon. Join Andrew as he

shares his insights into what
Shakespeare means across the world,
and throughout the years.

Otherworlds: Visions of our

Solar System at the Natural
History Museum through 15 May
Otherworlds explores the beauty of
our solar system and demonstrates that
the visual legacy of six decades of
space exploration. A free scientific
audio commentary is available for the

The Museum of Innocence

exhibition, offering additional

Somerset House, 27 January 3

perspectives on the photographs and

April 2016 Somerset House is

an opportunity to hear from scientists

presenting a collaboration with Nobel

about the Museum's cutting-edge

Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk

research.

which sees a unique new version of his

collection The Museum of Innocence, the
physical manifestation of his novel of