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.