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In BiologyDuring the BTB lab, the students

were looking at how much carbon

dioxide (CO2) our bodies produce

after a certain amount of exercise

as well as measuring heart rate.

BTB is a chemical that changes

from blue to yellow when exposed

to CO2 and this was the main test

for the students. They tested how

long it would take for them to

change the color of the BTB while

they were resting and after they

had done some exercise.

Andrew Loftis is doing jumping jacks for a

total of two minutes in order to increase his

heart rate to change the results when he

blows into the BTB container.

Matteo Valletta is blowing into a container of

BTB without any physical exertion. This

would mean the test would take slightly

longer than when the test after they

exercised.

Alex Knight is blowing into the BTB container

after doing jumping jacks. This would

change the results of the test by making it so

the BTB changes color faster than in the

original test.

Sophomores visit industry

On November 14th, MADE sophomores visited three

different locations.

The first Fabrication rotation traveled to Delta

technology, a corporation known for its precision

machines that are designed and manufactured to the

strictest industrial standards. Conor Gierlowski said,

“The range of jobs that you could work in, how many

things you can design, and the ability to work on the

floor with milling machines interested me.”

Automation traveled to U.S. Farathane. They are the

leading source of plastics manufacturing in the area,

supplying the automotive industry for over 40 years

and specializing in extrusion and compression

technologies. Dean Olszewski said, “I liked the various

robots that each had a different task that they

perfected.”

The final group, Design Engineering, traveled to

Mayco International, a company that uses latest

technologies, materials, and concepts to provide

customers with state-of-the-art interior modules. Two

separate presentations were shown. One describing

the process that a product goes through in order to

make it to production, and the other gave information

about the stockholders, consumers, and the producers

roles when developing ideas and products. They then

took a walk through the factory and observed the many

different robots at work.

From robotic arms to conveyor belts, everything had a

purpose and a job to do. Students enjoyed learning

about possible careers they may have in the near

future.

This issue

Biology & Rotation field trip

English 9 & American History

Chem, Math, & Honors English 10

Reverse Career Fair, Rotations

Design Thinking & Advisory Board

History & Meet your teacher

Ambassadors & extra pictures

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Top right: MADE Sophomore students gathered on the top floor of

MAYCO International to view the design engineers at work. Right

center: MADE students visited Farathane and watched a robotic arm

transport parts to another section. Bottom right: MADE student

Gorjan Zilkovski stands next to a Stratasys 3D printer at MAYCO

International. The Stratasys 900mc printer is used to 3D print

commercial car interior pieces.

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This year, freshman MADE students studied weapons of destruction in U.S History and then created samples

of the weapons in Design Thinking and had a Battle of Destruction debate.

While studying World War II,

American History students looked

into the different types of

weapons that were most

common. Students were assigned

a weapon and had to defend why

it would be considered the most

destructive.

Freshman Kristina Kopp and

her group were convinced their

tank was the most destructive.

“We put a PowerPoint together,

and our weapon should have

won. We didn’t find out the winner

though.”

Freshmen Kiera Toal, Michael

Koki, Kevin Martincic, Lucas

Carnagie, & sophomore Aveeno

Saroki made a prototype of a

poisonous gas used during the

war. “I learned about the type of

tactics soldiers used in the war

and how they used different types

of weapons,” said Kiera.

In Design Thinking class,

students made visual aides of

their weapon of destruction.

Students enjoyed being able to

work on a project in more than

one class.

Lego build

English 9 created LEGO displays of “The Most Dangerous Game”.

Ryan Parker is sitting with his partner, making his scene for The Most Dangerous Game. He said, “I liked the hands-on project and being able to explain his work without having to write it down.” Ryan helped tell the story by using Legos.

Yousif Saleh is helping his group create their part of “The Most Dangerous Game” using Legos. He said, “The Lego project was fun, and I enjoyed being able to collaborate in groups.”

Rickey Wilson said, ”While using the

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Kailey Richardson is helping her group create their part of the story by sharing her ideas with the group. She said she liked, “the diverse learning and being able to do a hands-on learning experience.” Kiley had helped her group explain the story by building a scene with Legos.

Freddie Lombardo and Dalon Bedell worked on their Lego model in Mrs. LaCombe’s class.

Top: Freshmen Junel Laguna, Gino

Scaglione, and sophomore Crystal

Stokes designed a replica of a world war

one plane for their project. “From this

project, I learned how planes were used

during the battle as well as the

differences in appearance and function

compared to modern day models,” said

Scaglione. Center: Freshmen Jacob

Adkins, Allen Vaso, Sam Stowers, and

Joshua Lee worked together in order to

create a model of a grenade used during

the war. Jacob said, “Our group made an

early WWI grenade. I learned how it was

a good weapon for clearing out trenches

and even was the cause of 4.1% of all

deaths in World War One.” Left:

Freshmen Megan Redmond, Andrew

Loftis, Ryan Ethridge, Matthew

Lajiness, and Dylan Vietzke designed a

flamethrower for their history and Design

Thinking class. “Our group designed a

flame thrower used in World War 1, and I

learned what it was used for and how it

was used,” said Redmond.

Nicholas Prihoiu, Cody Richardson, Kristina

Kopp, and Brandon Saynganthone built a tank

and truly were convinced it was the number

one weapon of destruction.

Tournament of destruction

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We had our first

SNOW DAY!

November was early for Utica

schools to have a snow day,

but students definitely

enjoyed the surprise day off.

How did MADE students

spend the free hours? What

did you do on the snow day?

"I went out to eat at Jonny Cakes Cafe

with my neighbors. Then, we came

home and built a snowman," said

sophomore Sedona Socianu.

Students take the data from the solar

heater project and used it in math class.

Ben Goulding said, “I learned about log

functions while doing this project.”

Haile Evans is working on the tubing for the solar collector with her group. “We coiled the tube so it would spend more time in the box and heat more,” said Haile.

Students assemble boxes that will help the

water heat up. Alyssa Troutt said, “The black

spray paint helps the box absorb the most

light, which makes it keep all of the light’s

heat.

Shakespeare

Every student in Honors

English 10 chose a

Shakespeare play they

wanted to read and then

shared a 5-minute acted

version or comic book version

to the class.

Some groups chose the option to create a comic book version of the main scenes in each act of their play. Anthony Gabrial, Blazej Cimochowski, and Abheet Bhugra. “We didn’t want to act; we preferred this way for people to interact with our work,” Anthony.

Borax Crystals: The water evaporated causing the Borax particles to attach to the pipe cleaner.

Sophomores Greta Kaminske & Annalisa Marck are reenacting Comedy of Errors. Marck said, “The play contained several different characters, so it was fun to have several roles, but also challenging for the audience to understand the difference between characters.”

Sophomores Chris Anya, Zo Ali, Madisen Easterly, and Amanda Palmer filmed their play Macbeth to share. “My favorite part of our video was how many characters I portrayed in the play that died and also the edits that Chris added that made it more exciting,” said Easterly.

In Chemistry classes, MADE sophomores built and studied water solar heaters, as well as water

collectors which accommodated for either foam boards, spray foam, or newspaper insulators. Mr. Davis’

students studied each insulator’s ability to maintain the collected water’s heat by recording temperature

change by the minute.

Before gathering any data, students had to build their water collectors and solar heaters while facing

challenges. Sophomore Julianna Riley said, “The hardest part was making the outside box shell [for the

water collector] because our bottle was tall, so the box had to be taller than 8 in. and the way the box

was originally folded made it a creative challenge.” The structures main bases were cardboard boxes,

which the students had to cut, shape, and design.

To heat the water within the water collector, students placed their solar heaters under heat lamps

for 10 minutes before running the water through them. “Instead of heat lamps, I think an open flame

would’ve been better for this experiment, because it generally gives off a lot of light and fire reaches a

higher temperature faster than a heat lamp,” said sophomore Ronel Youno. The heat lamps didn’t

provide the desired outcome due to our time restrictions.

Once the experiment concluded, Mr. Lombardo’s Algebra ll classes analyzed the collected data,

retested the insulators, and plotted temperature change by the minute as a function. Sophomore Gizelle

Abu Aqsa said, “This connection between math and Chemistry really shows students relations between

the two subjects as well as teaches skills that will actually be helpful to us in the future.” Instead of just

hot water, students tested hot and cold water to see which insulator worked best for each temperature

in their math classes.

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Madisen Easterly, Chris Hilla, and Nolan Datema watch the heat lamp warm their solar heater. Chris said, “I liked how interesting it was

and how everyone got to work on something.” Students took the temperature results to their math class for further work.

Freshman

Spotlight

Megan Redmond

& Jack Spinek

Q: What’s your favorite part of the D.T. process and why?

M: Ideation because you get to get other opinions.

J: Ideation, everyone gets to collaborate and throw their ideas out.

Q: What’s the hardest step of the D.T.

process and why? M: Empathy because it’s hard to talk to people and ask the right questions.

J: Prototype because you have to keep going back to it to make it

better.

Q: What’s your favorite project you've done so far?

M: The locker project because you got to collaborate with new people,

and you aren't rushed. J: The locker project because you get

to collaborate with people for the first

time.

Q: What’s the hardest thing you’ve

had to overcome?

M: Talking to new people and branching out.

J: Try and stay with your group, not collaborating with other people.

Q: What’s your favorite part about

being in MADE? “Talking to new people and learning how to communicate better” Megan

Redmond, 9th grade. “Being able to collaborate more than

regular school” Jack Spinek, 9th grade.

Sophomore Rotations: Focus on Design Engineering

In Mr. Garcia’s Design Engineering class, the first rotation of sophomore MADE students were tasked with completing 1 of the 4-final projects. Students were given 2 weeks to complete the CAD drawings and final 3D print. The first assignment was a new toy fan to use on the Snap Circuit motors. The objective was to hopefully make a better, stronger fan that would last longer than the previous ones. The second option was to re-engineer the iPhone holder/charger. With gathered feedback and empathy, a select few students were tasked with altering the design to make the phone holder able to support the phone. Honors Chemistry teacher, Mr. Davis, requested if it would be possible to 3D print him a model of atomic structures. Groups of students got to work to create spherical 3D models in SolidWorks that would be printed on a liquid-laser 3D printer. The remainder of the students were tasked with solving a problem in the Fabrication classroom. They had to create a safety cap for machines in the classroom to stop hair, clothes, and other loose things from getting sucked into it.

Left: Emilio Gutierrez printed a fan (with support material still intact) for a circuit kit in Mr. LaCombe’s class. Center: Kyler Castle made a phone holder that can hold the phone in horizontal or vertical position. He used it in class to watch a video while working on an assignment. Right: Sameh Khan made a model of an atomic structure for Mr. Davis’s Honors Chemistry class. Mr. Davis said, “I needed the models to replace the ones I had broken, so two large groups were assigned to make better ones.”

Left: Sophomores Eric Willemsen and Gorjan Zilkovski were partners and researched tool designers. Gorjan expressed his

gratitude for the job fair, “I actually found joy and a sense of pride when I had to present in front of these people. It made me feel like I’ve

actually grown up and had a chance to have a taste of the real world.” He continued expressing the benefits the program has similar

to these events. Center: During his automation rotation, Chris Bayer and his partner Sarah Andrzejewski researched fastening

engineers, Chris said, “I was surprised about the amount of schooling you need to advance in the job.” Right: Lauren Biroth and Giavanna

Berisha were partners and researched PLC programmers.

Need another picture!!!

Introducing the Reverse Career Fair, where students come alive to business partners. Tenth

grade students recently created a project about a job dedicated to the engineering

field. The rotation classes, including Automation, Design Engineering, or Fabrication, dictated

which job they had to represent and research.

Students had different feelings presenting in front of workers in the manufacturing field. "I felt so confident presenting; after I finished my presentation, I got offered a job as an automation tester by an actual automation tester," said sophomore Anthony Saado. Freshmen were also included as visitors to the fair. Lilly Carpenter was able to come down

and experience a taste of what the future holds for her. “I’m only in my first year and we haven’t

done something like this but being able to see the sophomores look so happy and engaged, I felt

really excited for what’ll happen when I become a sophomore.” Although she still hasn’t been able

to experience much, this program allows for everyone to be included in events.

Sophomore Gizelle Abu Aqsa said, “It was fun to be able to do something other than just

projects. I felt like I was actually doing something real for once which made me feel so much more

included in the program. I hope we get to do more things like this in the near future.” This program

enlists events and projects that allow everyone to be included in everything.

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Reverse Career Fair

What is your favorite

Thanksgiving food? "Marshmallow salad. It's

whipped condensed milk,

coconut shavings, and marshmallows on

top," said freshman Cody Richardson.

Debates

In Design Thinking, students learned how to problem solve, communicate, and train the mind to learn. Recently, students participated in a communication and listening activity where partner one had a photo that partner two could not see, and partner two had to draw partner one’s picture based only on verbal description. This exercise helped students look more intently at how they explain things to others. Freshman Jack Spinek said, “It was a little bit of a strange experience, but it did help me understand why paying attention to every detail is important.” It also helped them correct errors and take in all information and feedback and input that into a product or solution of another problem. Freshman Dani Romaya agreed with the skills gained through the picture activity. “I learned observation and feedback skills, and it taught me why you need to pay attention to little details.” This communication activity helped students with projects like the sink renovation project, where freshmen had to create a product prototype that would fix a problem with a sink in the Fabrication Lab. The assignment was to stop the sensor from immediately turning the sink off when the user’s hands weren’t in its way. Monica Kavalli said, “It was very good to collaborate with a group of people.” This project was meant to challenge the students’ collaboration, communication, and problem-solving skills and was an overall success.

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Design Thinking Projects Advisory Board

The student advisory board is very important in MADE. A

group of 9th and 10th graders meet and discuss with the

teachers on how to make MADE better.

The students on the advisory board give their opinions on questions the teachers have. Sam Lyle says it works by,” Being able to have a group discussion about everyone’s opinions without them being shut down.” Sedona Socianu really liked what members of the advisory board do. She said,” I like the student advisory board because we get to talk about what we could change for the better of MADE, and we make the changes based on the voices of students.” The student advisory board will continue to make MADE a better experience for all students. 10th GRADE MEMBERS 9th GRADE MEMBERS Tomas Bassalious Sydney Missouri

Chris Bayer Monica Kavalli

Cassidy Cantwil Sam Stowers

Kyle Carbary Kyle Baran

Kyler Castle Khadeeja Ali

Nick Hannosh Matt Lajiness

Samantha Lyle Gavin Hackman

Tyler Nguyen Tanner Harris

Sedona Socianu Dalon Bedell

Synthia Yalda Lyle Munro

Chris Walls

ALTERNATES Anthony Gabrail Ariana Taleghani Zo Ali

Gizelle Abu Aqsa Veronica Roki Lauren Biroth

Abheet Bhugara Emilio Gutierrez Kayli Nguyen

Madisen Easterly

Above: The sink in the Fabrication B room isn’t functioning correctly, so Design Thinking classes solve the problem. Freshman Anthony Brohl said, “When we made our prototype, it had to be perfectly exact for it to function how we wanted it to. My experience with the sink project taught me more than I thought it would.”

Left: Chris Sensini is talking to his group, Donavin Patrick and Rama Kacho, figuring out what they will say next. Chris said, “I liked having to

spontaneously argue and being enthusiastic and the challenge of creating your argument on the spot.” He quickly came up with arguments to shoot

down the other groups. Right: Anthony Doe discusses with Alec Pavlik and Ethan Moscone points to bring up in the next argument.

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Above: Freshman Ryan Book

is drawing a picture of a

reindeer from instructions given

by his partner. The activity was

meant to challenge students

listening skills. Ryan said, “It

was a good experience to

have.” Top right: Toby Zetuna and

Olivia Dickerson: Bottom right:

Sydnei Missouri and Alex Viviano

Sophomore Samantha

Lyle updates students on

the rules that the advisory

board had discussed. The

presentation was meant

to remind students of the

expectations that they

had agreed on earlier in

the year that needed to be

improved.

Extra, Extra!

US History Newspapers-

Far left: Most MADE freshmen highly prefer projects over tests. “I really enjoyed doing this

project and not having to stress over a test”, said freshman, Anthony Brohl. This project

allowed for some students to be worry free and have a chill history class. Left: Some

students go above and beyond for projects. Freshman, Parker Wilson said, “I really enjoyed

doing a project instead of a test.” The history classes enjoyed making a newspaper instead

of testing. Right: Freshman, Quinn LeFeve said, “I enjoyed the project, but I would’ve been

okay taking a test.” Although testing is traditional, projects are preferable.

In Mrs. Lucas’ freshman class,

students were assigned a creative

report on current events during the

1920s. Each student had to write

multiple essays on the lifestyle,

economy, and politics of this time in

an article format. Writing their

stories in an article format helps them further research their

topics and gather more crucial information that is crucial to know. Freshman Michael Koki said, “This helped me research a wider

variety of things on the topics on the subject which helped me understand different concepts better.” Different ways of learning,

like this one, is important for a well-rounded education. Freshman, Gino Scaglione, said, “I’m happy that the teachers open us up

to different learning styles. It makes it a lot more enjoyable.” Different learning techniques helps kids find out which way they learn

the best.

Meet your teachers

Q & A

Mr. Waller & Mrs. Murphy

MADE Ambassadors

Our Ambassadors do a lot for the academy. They give tours of our program and lead shadowing kids that are interested in joining MADE. We have 15 ambassadors in our program, and they all like different aspects of being an ambassador. Greta Kaminske says,” I just like to be able to help the program and promote it to other people.” She loves being able to show eighth graders who are looking into this program what it is all about. Another ambassador Dzana Kljajic said,” It’s fun to be able to set up events and meet new people through it.” Ambassadors are able to give tours to business partners to gain new opportunities. Overall our ambassadors find joy in representing the academy. 10th grade Ambassadors 9th grade Ambassadors Nolan Datema Dzana Kljajic Maria Hannish Haile Evans Amanda Palmer Michael Koki Ben Goulding Juliana Riley Gino Scaglione Colin Gulli Crystal Stokes Kiera Toal Greta Kaminske Jack Tengler Ronel Youno

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Top left: Ben Goulding’s shadow

Nathan observes how to make

logarithmic functions for a Chemistry

project. Top right: Sophomore Ronel

Youno and freshman Kiera Toal visit

Heritage to discuss what MADE is all

about. Left: Shadow Brock discovers

different aspects of the program while

visiting. During lunch in the

collaboration space, he played FIFA

with sophomores Colin Gulli and

Sameh Khan.

CCS dual enrolement

Holiday spirit

Teachers who could fit it into their schedule joined the rest of Stevenson in decorating their doors for a holiday door decorating challenge.

Students were asked to bring in candy all week, and it ended in an amazing gingerbread design competition with combined teams of 9th and

10th grade students. Every student was provided with the same basic materials and a teacher to design for.

Left: Teachers prepared for the design challenge. Center left: Sophomore Alyssa Troutt and freshman Josh Lee Center right: Freshmen Ryan Book, Junel Laguna, and sophomore

Dean Olszewski Right: David Azcarraga

Left: Noah Giovannone Center: Vannesa Nguyen

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All MADE students saw how the same design thinking

process they use in MADE is also used in the real world. The

Product Design professor from CCS took students through

the process with several products, including the shoe pictured

here.

Two representatives from the College for Creative Studies visited with MADE students and showed how the design thinking process is used in

product desing, one of several majors at CCS. They walked through the design process with several products CCS students created in

partnership with real companies. CCS also offers high school dual enrolment on site at Stevenson High School so students can take advantage

of CCS classes for an exceptionally lower price. A $4400 class at CCS is offered to Stevenson students for $265 plus art supplies and earn

college credit. These classes are open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors; one class can be taken each semester in the evening. Mrs.

Peterson is the contact person for interested students. Students must apply by May 15, 2020 for the fall. You may also contact CCS with

questions: pcs@collegeforcreativestudies.edu

Mrs. Murray’s door designed by 6th hour English 10. Rickey Wilson, Lauren Biroth, Huzaifa Siddiqui, and Evan Wypij spearheaded the design. Right: Mr. LaCombe’s Design

Thinking class door.

More rotation fieldtrip Continued pg. 1

Left: Zohaib Ali, Cherish Bennette, Annette Leon, Crystal Stokes Center: Chris Anaya, Rickey Wilson, Eshan Hakim, Ryan Graebert Right: Joe Turner, Synthia Yalda

Left: Eric Willemsen, Chris Sensini, Osby Kwam Center: Billy Halime Right: Nolan Datema, Julianna Riley

More chemistry Continued pg. 3

Left: Kayli Nguyen Center left: Nolan Datema, Chris Hilla, and Madisen Easterly Center right: Julianna Riley Right: Ronel Youno and Justin James

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More English 9 Continued pg. 2

Left: Lyle Munro & Parker Willson Center left: Johnny Brauner & Andrew Loftis Center right: Abdul Sarmad & Dylan Vietzke Right: RJ Northrup, Michael Stark, & Aum Prajapati

Left: Kyle Baran, Monica Kavalli, Khadeeja Ali, Noor Haweel Center left: Maria Hannish, Olivia Dickerson, Vanessa Nguyen Center right: Dani Romaya, Mason Alhakim, Toby Zetuna

Right: Alex Viviano, Kailey Richardson, Sam Stowers

More Shakespeare Continued pg. 3

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Left: Kayli Nguyen, Tyler Nguyen, Dean drew a cartoon version of Hamlet. Center: Sophomores Chris Anya, Zo Ali, Madisen Easterly, and Amanda Palmer act out Macbeth. Right: Julianna Riley, Nolan Datema, & Gabrielle Kalosky are performing their live action version of The Tempest.

Upcoming Events

Freshmen.

• Michigan Design Challenge begins Dec. 19th.

Sophomores.

• January 30 -2nd rotation field trip

• January 31 -Reverse Career Fair 2

• January 31 -2nd Rotation ends

• February 27 -Liberty Cast Guest Speaker

Academy.

• January 6 -S0chool resumes

• January 9th -Academic Blitz

• January 15 -17 -Exams

• January 21 -MADE information night

Times being MADE staff

Sarah Andrzejewski Tomas Bassalious Ben Goulding Dzana Kljajic Michael Koki Samantha Lyle Amanda Palmer Jack Tengler Kiera Toal Synthia Yalda Ronel Youno

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