Benny’s Brain
This is the game engine Benny taught this year.
Godot
Jack won first place at the science fair with this experiment about how water moves.
Walking Water
Benny created this cooking-chaos game for the Games for Change Student Challenge.
Undercooked
Mom says this when someone is eating and trying to tell a whole story at the same time.
Don’t talk while you’re chewing.
This dragon series is one of Jack’s favorites.
Wings of Fire
Benny built his own synthesizer using this tiny computer.
Raspberry Pi
This book series follows four orphaned siblings who make an unconventional home on the tracks.
The Boxcar Children
Jack designed this toy robot during his Playology cycle.
Gizz-Robe
Dad says this phrase when reminding everyone how to treat each other.
Kind and gentle.
This book begins with a little hairy man who does not expect to go on an adventure.
The Hobbit
This Baroque composer wrote “Aylesford Piece,” which Benny performed beautifully at his recital.
George Frideric Handel
This TV homesteader (with a fantastic resume) helps families fix problems with cabins, gardens, water, animals, and survival.
Marty Raney
Benny created a Model UN project focused on this country.
France
Dad says, “What time is it?” and the answer is this.
Game time!
This comic strip features a boy and his stuffed tiger.
Calvin and Hobbes
This physics simulation method helps calculate motion by using current and previous positions.
Verlet integration
These are the names of Laura Ingalls’ sisters in Little House on the Prairie.
Mary and Carrie
Jack researched these cold-weather trade routes during his Hidden Histories cycle.
Arctic trade routes
Mom says, “Believe in yourself and tell yourself what?” The kids say this back.
I can do it, I can do it!
This George Orwell book is about propaganda and power.
Animal Farm
This computer graphics technique simulates how light travels to create realistic images.
Ray tracing
In Jack’s Walking Water project, this process helps water move through narrow spaces, like paper towels or plant tissues.
Capillary action
Benny made a creative model showing how Adélie penguin guano helps this ocean ecosystem.
The Southern Ocean ecosystem
Mom asks, “Who’s the biggest and the best?”
Benny
Paddington gives people this famous look when they forget their manners.
A hard stare