Category: In the classroom
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CodeQuest Academy Mentorships with Lockheed Martin Begin
Monarch’s Computer Science students have participated in mentorships with professionals from Lockheed Martin over the past several years, and this year, we are fortunate to have virtual mentors for all three of our year-long courses! Mentors connect with the classes between four to six times virtually over the course of three months to help students Read more
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Monarch AP Cybersecurity Students Present Vulnerability Assessment to Principal Doan
Monarch is one of a few select schools around the nation to be selected to offer College Board’s Career Kickstart course AP Cybersecurity as a pilot before it is launched nationally next year. The culminating product for the unit on Securing Physical Spaces was to conduct a physical vulnerability assessment of Monarch High School. In Read more
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Second Year CS Students Compute Carbon Sequestration at MoHi
Monarch High School’s AP Computer Science A (the second year course in the program) got out today to hug some trees as part of their Project Based Learning module on carbon sequestration. They used measuring tapes and clinometers to measure tree diameters and height to create a data file of trees at Monarch. Using that Read more
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College Board Announces Advanced Placement® Cyber Courses
AP Career Kickstart™ (AP® CK) is a new set of career-oriented high school courses. Career Kickstart courses are organized as pathways made up of two full-year courses that will help students: In the 2025-2026 academic year, Monarch will offer AP CK Cyber: Security. In this course, students learn how hackers exploit weaknesses and how to Read more
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Monarch CS Awarded Impact on Education Academic Opportunity Grant
We just received news that Impact on Education has awarded the Computer Science department funds to support printing the second edition of MoHi Mindfulness Moments. For their first project, students in AP Computer Science A write programs in Java to generate designs that can be colored in. We then have BVSD’s print shop produce them Read more
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Engineering @ CU Boulder Visits Monarch CS Classrooms
Monarch CS kicked off the year with a visit from current students in the Engineering program at CU Boulder. Students in AP CS A and AP CS Principles learned more about how CS can connect to a variety of disciplines, including Engineering, and they got the opportunity to participate in hands-on activities related to problem Read more