Digital Society and Drones

 In the 11th grade Digital Society class, the students have been exploring the future of work through an extended inquiry project.

One of the technologies that arose from research,  which became a focus of discussion when presenting ideas, was that of drone technologies as interventions and how the use of drones might become more common as the future of work evolves. 

Through inquiry, the students explored how drones can be used for transport and delivery across multiple contexts, as well as the benefits and drawbacks of using drones for these jobs. Some of the contexts they looked at were employment and training, governments and policies as well as potential environmental impacts. 

At the end of one lesson students got to experience drone piloting firsthand with our LRC Mini drones. We have some great pilots in the class!

During another lesson, Mr. Alfaro brought out the new LRC/ICT drone and we flew it up to the top of the LRC to explore the school weather station. 

Below is the link to a short video from the second experience with our new DJI Mini 2. 

Digital Society/Drone Video

 by Hilda Gomez

Student Agency in Service Learning for Global Citizenship

By Hilda Gomez

Students from the ReciLectura Club visited Jardines de La Sabana school for the first time this year. During the visit, they discussed the importance of respecting the environment and social welfare with a focus on sustainability.

Our students taught the children at the Jardines de la Sabana school how to sow seeds in plastic bottles and how to take care of plants.

Catherine and Pablo who are members of the Recilectura club have shared with us their experiences with us.

Visiting Escuela Jardines de la Sabana was an amazing experience. Not only did we interact with other students but also had the opportunities to share our knowledge about sustainability and spread the word. It was an exciting experience to work with different communities and get to know each other as part of ReciLectura and the LRC team. As a team, we really look forward to sharing our experiences and knowledge and cannot wait for the next adventure! 

by Catherine.

We enjoyed the visit a lot! It was a great opportunity to have an open discussion about sustainability in our schools and communities. We are really excited about all the future opportunities to collaborate with public schools in initiatives like these. ReciLectura and the LRC are fueling our passion for service, and education, and becoming the future leaders of our community! 

by Pablo.

Here is a short video from the visit.

Tema: Sostenibilidad-Club ReciLectura by Hilda Gomez

Do click here to view our photo gallery from the trip.

Space Grand Challenge Competition 2022

  Written by Silvia Serrano

A group of ABC students: Daniella Jerez, Sebastián Ortíz, Isabella Portillo

and Alejandra Jerez, participated in the Space Grand Challenge 2022

competition, which took place online, on October 8th, 2022. After seven hours of competition the students placed first in the international beginner category!

The challenge which was for middle/high school students from across the globe

was a gamified satellite/space-based cybercrime challenge scenario developed

by the California Cybersecurity Institute at Cal Poly . 

The ABC has a special relationship with Cal Poly, through the Cyber to Schools Program, in which several ABC students are enrolled and earn a series of

micro-credentials in cybersecurity. The program is supported by the following

organisations: Fortinet, LMNTRIX, Lockheed Martin, Secureworks, AWS,

Foundation of the Future, NSSA, JPL NASA, and United States Space Force.

The cybersecurity space-themed Esports game is intended for

beginner-level/intermediate-level participants. It is composed of a

multi-layered cybercrime plot written by students who work and study

at Cal Poly. The game comes complete with complex characters,

physical and digital forensic evidence chains, and puzzles that challenge

participants who are required to search through the evidence and analyse

it in order to solve a satellite/space hacking crime. In doing so they engage

in gamification and esports for space and cybersecurity skill development,

using specialized tools across cybersecurity, space, satellites, deep pace

networking, and forensics.

During the two months, they spent preparing for this challenge, the students

learned an amazing number of skills which focus on cybersecurity. These skills

include:

• The skills Basic-Social-Engineering-Tactics

• Denial of Service Attack

• Malware

• Ping of Death Script

• Satellite-Jamming/Spoofing

• OSI-Model

• Indicators-of-attack-(IOA)

• Deep-Space-Networks

• Logic-Bombs

• Cloud-based computing

• Remote Desktop Protocol

• VPN, Virtual Private Network

• Basic-Linux-Skills

• PowerShell

• The-National-Cybersecurity-Workforce-Framework-NICE

• Wireshark-&-PCAP-Analysis

• Web-Server-Exploitation

• Digital-Forensics

• Software Defined Radios

• Basic-awareness-of-the-InterPlanetary-Networking-Special-Interest-Group

• AutoRuns

• Domain-Generation-Algorithm-(DGA)

• Cryptocurrencies

• Common-Vulnerabilities-and-Exposures-(CVE)

• Collaboration-Skills

• Cybersecurity-Ethics

• Orbital-Mechanics

• Blockchain

Gameplay Stats

# of total Players: 332 

# of Teams: 72

# # of Participating High Schools: 35

Gender Distribution: 

Males: 225

Females: 96

Did Not Disclose: 11

World Robot Olympiad, El Salvador

Our robotics club achieved a significant milestone this past weekend: Two teams classified for the World Robot Olympiad Finals in Dortmund, Germany!

Six ABC Robotics teams took part in the WRO El Salvador competition, in the following categories:

The Robomission category, a Lego-based challenge, required participants to build robots to complete missions on a map. The teams were divided into three age groups each with different maps and challenges, namely: Elementary (8 - 12 years old), Junior (11-15 years old) an Senior (14 - 19 years old).

The ABC participated with 2 teams in the Junior age group: 

• Don Kamaron Technologies (Eduardo Urrutia, José Santiago Casanovas, Ricardo Baires)

• ABC EVO (Moisés Mejía, Mateo Guzmán, Daniel Chévez). 

In the senior age group we participated with  3 teams: 

• Los Cuidadores (André Mejía, Néstor Cáceres, Enrique López), 

• ABC Robotics Club (Marcos Narváez, Juan Andrés Miguel, Arturo Sánchez), 

• 24 Tech (Christian Vásquez, Rafael Menéndez, Diego Arévalo)

The Future Innovators category allowed participants to choose from a range of technologies to design and build a robotic solution. They chose a subcategory from Robots in rescue missions, Robots in Healthcare and Robots at Home.

The ABC Bulldogs Team (Elena Atanacio and Jeanette Mejía) competed in this category under the elementary age group (8 - 12 year old), in the Robots at Home subcategory.

  

ABC Came Out on Top!

• The ABC Robotics Club team won first place in the Robomission - Senior category. 

• The ABC Bulldogs team won first place in the Future Innovators - Robots at home category. 

Both teams qualified for the WRO Finals in Dortmund, Germany, as national champions in their categories. The Finals will take place from the 14th to the 19th of November 2022.

• The ABC Don Kamaron Technologies team also won second place in the Robomission Junior category wrapping up an astonishing performance from all the teams. 

If you want to take a look at the complete album, please click here. We are still uploading images from all the cameras, so please check back soon for more.

The link to the WRO 2022 Finals website is here.

The World Robot Olympiad association was founded in 2004 with one mission in mind:  

“To bring together young people all over the world to develop their creativity, design and problem-solving skills through challenging and educational robot competitions and activities” (WRO). They decided that each member would host a national competition and the winners would attend the annual WRO® international final hosted by a different country each year.

This year, WRO® El Salvador in collaboration with Colegio Highlands hosted the national event, with the theme "My Robot My Friend", outlining that "the combination of robotics and artificial intelligence can change the world and especially the environment of humans. The season challenges are connected to the ways that robots can help humans. How can we make robot-human interaction helpful and safe?" (WRO).

Congratulations to all participants, who offered their best effort and made all this possible in a very short time.