Glider Competition

The grade 11 Engineering Design students had their final competition at lunch on Friday June 3rd. Their task was to build a glider, that when released from 12 metres above the gym floor, would travel the farthest before landing.

This project has fairly simple construction requirements but requires many test launches to find the precise way to balance the glider and the precise angle at which it should be released. Many flew really well, but turned around and headed back. Some crashed to the ground with a horrible thud. However, the successful ones were beautiful to watch - almost magical.

The very best glider (see below) was the one flown by Shafayath H., Andrew S and Sasha M.  

Danforth CTI's Track & Field Team Compete at the Ontario Finals

Track & Field athletes John Reston and Hannah Dmowski did Danforth CTI proud by qualifying for this year’s provincial championships (OFSAA) in Windsor. Both athletes qualified by throwing personal bests in the javelin at Toronto’s Metro Championship: John throwing 44.78m in the senior boys category and Hannah throwing 27.03m in the midget girls. John has coincidentally been accepted into the University of Windsor Kinesiology program for next fall and will take his hammer throwing skills to the Windsor track team. Meanwhile, Hannah has three more years of javelin throwing ahead of her at Danforth and undoubtedly more trips to OFSAA. Redhawks track coaches , Mr. Vidovich and Ms. Milburn, are already looking forward to next year and planning to expand and improve on a team that had over 20 members who trained hard day after day for several months and competed admirably with the best athletes in the city.

Hospitality and Tourism Students Create Dishes From Around The World

As part of their culminating activity, grade 10 Hospitality and Tourism students cooked and baked some delicious dishes from around the world.  This gave students an opportunity to share their family's culture or to prepare a dish from somewhere that they would love to visit. They also demonstrated the skills that they learned in class over the year.

See below for some examples: Ackee and Saltfish (Jamaica), Chap Jae (Korea), Cabbage Rolls (Ukraine), Fish and Chips (England), and Lamingtons (Australia).

Music Performances in the Danforth Community!

On May 24th, a group of nearly 40 music students performed at the Jack Layton Seniors' Residence and Avondale Retirement Residence. The local seniors enjoyed a variety of performances from our school musicians. Later that week, the students performed a lunch time concert in the cafeteria, where our own staff and students could hear the great sounds of our ensembles. Congratulations to our performers who played beautifully and represented our school so well! Kudos to Ms. Prole for facilitating the performances and we look forward to hearing the school band at commencement on June 29th.

Cram-A-Cruiser Food Drive For The Fort McMurray Fire Victims

Danforth CTI community will be supporting families in Fort McMurray with a 'Cram-A-Cruiser' Food Drive. A big thanks to our School Resource Officer (SRO) Dwayne Forde for initiating and facilitating this event along with our SRO BBQ at lunchtime on May 27th. The BBQ is free for students however everyone is encouraged to bring a non-perishable food item so that we can 'cram-a-cruiser.'

Danforth Students Win The National SAGE competition

Congratulations to Frank Nguyen and Andre Bertram
and their HelpWear technology that garnered the first place prize on May 13th at the national, 'Students for the advancement of global entrepeneurship' (SAGE) competition. They will be going to the International competition in the Philippines in August. Congratulations, to their hard work and initiative that has paid off. 

For more details go to https://twitter.com/SAGECanada 

Andre Bertram (third from the left) and Frank Nguyen (third from the right)

News from Canada World Studies May 2016

Every year the World Issues class attends the Friends of MSF (doctors without borders) at University of Toronto Refugee Camp in the Heart of the City.  Students experience a mock refugee camp complete with many stations including Health tent, Nutrition tent and First Aid tent.

 Every  year  the Forces of Nature:  Physical Geography class goes to Rockwood Conservation Area to explore glacial and fluvial landscapes and processes.  Here they await the bus.

Engineering Design Students 'Prepping' For the Trebuchet Contest!

Ms. Tevlin's grade 12 Engineering Design students are getting ready for the final competition of their 2-year program - the Trebuchet contest!

(Note: A trebuchet, is a gravity-powered siege weapon.)

The students are going to design, build and calibrate large trebuchets to lob water-filled balloons at  Ms. Tevlin /staff at lunchtime on Tuesday May 31st.
To get ready for this challenge, they experimented last Friday with some small-scale models and used them to fire small projectiles at a circle of evil minions.  It was a close contest, but the winning team with the most hits was made of Maddy S., Maddy M. and Nikita S. (Girl power!!)


Here you can see five of the seven trebuchets. The winning team is second from the right:

Here you see the catchers for each team. The catchers toss the projectiles back so that they can be fired again. The evil minions are at their feet:

Ishfar is loading his trebuchet with a small sphere of plasticine:

Ishfar is almost ready  to fire. Notice the large black counterweight on the left. This is what propels the projectile:

Caitlyn is scooping up one of her teams projectiles and Nicco is chasing after one of his. They need to return them as quickly as possible to their teammates, so that they can be fired again:

Coming Soon Danforth CTI's Spring Show, 'The Odd Couple'!

The Danforth Players are excited to present Neil Simon's "The Odd Couple"!

When: May 11th and 13th @ 7pm
Where: Danforth Collegiate and Technical Institute located at 800 Greenwood Ave. (closest subway stop is Greenwood)
How: Tickets are $5.00 for the public and $3.00 for students. They can be purchased at the door before the show. 50/50 tickets and snacks will be sold before the performance and during intermission. 

Hope to see you there! 
#OddCoupleDCTI

Laser Quest STEM Trip

As part of the year-end celebration, twenty-four students from Danforth CTI’s boys and girls group as well as grade 12 lead mentors, Child & Youth Counsellor Latoya Williams and teacher Paul Turnbull attended Laser Quest on Wednesday, April 6^th. This event provided students with the opportunity to learn about ‘Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM)’,  through the analysis of ‘light and colour’ properties that are applied to technology and how these concepts apply in the everyday world. Laser Quest instructors taught students the basics of lasers: what exactly is a laser? And how does a laser travel through air to sensors that are worn by players.  In addition participating students in both groups strengthened their team building skills.

XHIBITART 2016

CONGRATULATIONS  to all Visual Arts students and staff involved with XHIBITART16 which opened Wednesday.  It is a fantastic show (as usual).  Thank you also to all other staff and students who attended the opening reception and supported our students. 

Special congratulations go to:

Hali Brookson and Camille LeBlanc who received the Art Gallery of Ontario membership award,

Rabaya Khan and Turna Mallik who received the Above Ground Art Supplies award, and,

Francis Ho and Ruthie Sun who were the recipients of the Sandy Boyd Memorial art award.

The show continues until May 1 at the Papermill Gallery at Todmorden Mills, 67 Pottery Road.

Danforth CTI Makes the Front Page of the TDSB public website

Congratulations to the MaST program@DanforthCTI and students Andre Bertram and Frank Nguyen on their achievements that is currently posted on the TDSB's public website. ..