What’s Happening In Our Magnet Program
The BEAM, I-PREP, and AP Capstone Magnet Programs have been very busy during the first semester here at North Miami Beach Senior High School. Many interesting lessons and activities are taking place in and out of the classrooms. AP Capstone students are investigating topics such as climate change, social inequalities, and food justice. iPREP students are busy on their Mac Books learning about English Literature and Digital Design while BEAM students work diligently on their Science Fair projects. In addition, many awards, honors, and recognitions have been received at NMB. Of course, there is the academic learning and classroom instruction but, our classes are bursting with enthusiasm about experiential learning as well. What is experiential learning? Field trips! About those field trips. Magnet students have participated in a few field trips already this year. They’ve attended the Miami Dade County Book Fair and escaped from The Escape Room on Lincoln Road down on South Beach. Upcoming trips include visiting the Urban Living Center at Miami Dade College, exploring the Perez Art Museum, continues on page 2
Facial Recognition in Australian Airports By Miranda Joseph As of February 2017, the nation’s Department of Immigration and Border Protection is aiming to create facial recognition passports. According to Fox News Tech, facial recognition makes it faster without ever having to interact with a human. The Australian Airport authorities plan to test out this new innovation Woman using facial scan at Australia’s Canberra airport beginning in July, before taking it to a busier airport. The goal of this innovation is to give inventive answers to allow, or authorize, recognition is also controversial and has led to wrongful convictions, racial profiling arriving voyagers to self-process. and other issues. To find a resolution to Passengers would have to consent this problem the Australian government to having their biometrics captured ran the idea past its privacy commission and stored together with identifying and passed a law in 2015, allowing it to information, something that raises privacy collect more biometric data from citizens and security concerns. This may raise and foreigners, including minors, at its legal concerns due to the fact that Facial airports.
Free STD Testing at NMB
By Madonna Moncaire
The school offers free STD testing for students who are enrolled. You can set an appointment during the school year at the school’s clinic for free testing. Statistics say between the ages of 15-24 the youth from high school to college have a greater risk of STD exposure. How do they have a greater risk? Some young people may have sex multiple times with multiple people and others may not speak about their sex life openly so they’re most likely not getting checked for sexually transmitted diseases or STD for short.
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The rate of contracting an STD is rapidly growing. Studies show that 1 in 5 just over the age of 12 have genital herpes. Abstinence is the best way to stay clear of STDs. If you can’t stay abstained make sure you only have one sexual partner and both of you get tested.
Getting The Nintendo Switch By Kamia Thompson
Are you tired of your old Wii U system and wished for Nintendo to make something new and out of this world? Well you’re in luck, because Nintendo has developed a new Nintendo game system that could blow your mind. This new system that Nintendo manufactured is called the Nintendo Switch, a device that is more mobile and less stationary. It becomes Nintendo’s seventh major home console, along with the Wii, DS, 2DS, 3DS, DSI and the Wii U. According to Nintendo, this new system is considered to be the first “hybrid” in the Nintendo community, as it is a stationary console that can be transformed into a mobile devise and vice versa. In 2014, because of the low sales of the Wii U, Nintendo decided to come up with a console that would become the next big thing. One of the many features that the Nintendo Switch has is that the new system allows its users to take any compatible game on the go, whenever and wherever desired. The Nintendo system can work like any other Nintendo console and
Nintendo Switch Will release March 3, 2017
can be used as a personal tablet. The Nintendo Switch also has features that allow the user to change the controller into a handheld controller or a gamepad similar to the Wii U Pad. This feature can be done by switching the joystick controllers, which Nintendo refers to as “JoyCons. These attach to the side of the selected controller.
So if the new Nintendo Switch catches your interest, the Switch has been announced to be release worldwide on March 3rd, 2017 at an estimated price of $400. Many games are already in development for the Nintendo Switch, and some games are already developed and
ready to be released, along with the Switch. Some of these are the Legend of Zelda: Breath of The Wild and Mario: Odyssey. According to Nintendo’s manufacturing team, “Nintendo has sought support of many third party developers and publishers to help build out the Switch’s game library alongside Nintendo’s own first-party titles, with over 100 titles under development by 70 developers as of January 2017.” So mark your calendars and save your pennies because the Nintendo Switch may be the system for you.
Apple Testing Prototypes For iPhone 8
By Kamia Thompson Ever wonder how Apple makes their products so reliable and functional? Ever thought about how your iPhone evolved over the past years? Well the reason why your iPhone is so great is because Apple companies and industries work hard completing trials and testing to make sure that you are happy with your iPhone the minute you use it. Apple is now testing the iPhone 8 that will come out later this year and outshine the current version, iPhone 7. The year 2017 marks the 10th anniversary for the iPhone, and both analysts and market researchers believe Apple wants to offer a model that delivers many of the innovations, like Samsung offered in their marketing for the last few years.
having recent innovations, like their competition. So, Apple published the iPhone 7 to get its reputation on the right track, with a series of testing and trials to make sure it is reliable and functioning. Despite that, Apple now has an offer for the iPhone 8 for their 10th anniversary.
Apple is currently testing more than 10 prototypes to make sure this model can top their previous model and end the criticisms that haunt the company. Apple plans on adding new and more updated features, such as the organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display technology that could allow for a curved screen and the OLED model that would be an addition to the traditional liquid crystal display (LCD) versions.
Apple has received many criticisms for not
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attending an FIU research conference, and finally a visit to Italy. Yes, the country! Planning has begun for some of our Magnet students to tour three regions in Italy, making for an amazing, once in a lifetime, experience during Spring Break 2018. NMB’s Magnet Programs as well as individual students have achieved many accolades. We were awarded the Magnet School of Distinction for the 2015-2016 school year by the Magnet Schools of America and the National School Choice Office in Washington, D.C. honored NMB with the School Choice Leadership Award 2017.
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Along with the school awards, individual students have participated in the State Science Fair in Lakeland, Florida and were asked to present their science findings at an INTEL in Arizona. Next year we will introduce our Legal Academy so look for more amazing happenings around campus. Go Chargers!!
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