Essential+Questions

Heather Kendrick || ** Acting ** ||= How can we change living conditions in Haiti? ||= **Creating a stage performance, craft sale**  || Ben Henry Seth || **Music**  ||= How can we teach kids across the globe how to play music? ||= **Developing website w/ instructional video courses**  || Lucy B JT Katherine D || **History**  ||= How can we raise awareness of orphans in India? ||= **Creating a wiki and raising money through a bake sale**  || Annabel S Alex || **Dreams & Imagination**  ||= How will we get young children (pre k/k) more excited about reading? ||= **Writing, illustrating and publishing a childrens' book ... reading to the GCDS prek/k** || Kate Paula ||  ||=   ||=   || Alixy Rachel ||  ||=   ||=   || Henry Kate ||  ||=   ||=   || Lydia Honor || Sports ||= How can we help reduce childhood obesity and raise awareness of fitness and nutrition in children? || **Creating a website called "Get Active Kids" with healthy tips: exercise suggestions and videos, stretches, games, recipes** || Ryan Aly || Sports/Physiology ||= How can we help children stay fit and healthy? ||= ** Creating a class for pre-schoolers to learn how to eat healthy, make healthy snacks, do stretches, play active games, do excercises, keep a journal. Newsletters will also be given to the parents to talk about what the children learned in the class ** || Gabby Layla || Animals ||= How can we introduce dance to young children to help them get interested in dance? ||= ** Creating a dance class for children from grades K-2 so that they can be exposed to dancing and know if they want to continue dancing when they are a bit older. ** || Tate Richard ||  ||= Does GCDS use its athletic fields to their full extent? ||=  || Jack Walty William K. ||  ||= How do robots help people and our community? What are some jobs robots can do? Is it possible to build a robot that can pick up trash? ||= **We are going to build and program a robot to pick up trash.**  || Chili David G. ||  ||= How do sensors help people and our community? Could sensors be used to help drivers find a parking space on a busy street like Greenwich Ave.? || **We are going to create a Scratch program using a sensor board to simulate a driver looking for a parking space.** || Annabel T Peter M. Robbie || Sports  ||= How do kids feel about the amount of time they spend playing organized sports, coaching philosophies and pressure? ||= We are going to create a survey that asks questions on youth sports and have it completed by students in several grades. || Christo || Sports ||= How do field conditions impact baseball and how can they be improved? ||= We are going to visit local fields, contact facilities to find out how to maintain a field, and put in a system to help maintain them. This will be done through Cal Ripken and either Green and Clean or OGRCC || Sammy Ian Harry R. ||  ||= How can sports improve life in developing countries? ||=  || Reilly ||   ||=   ||=   || Beth || Dance ||= What if dance were brought to Kids in Crisis? || An instructional video of four different types of dance, three done individually and one done as a team. They also hope to bring awareness to the Kids in Crisis program to GCDS. || Maggie Julia E. || Tech ||= Should the Middle School add iPads to their technology used every day? || A proposal to present that they are expecting will result in the recommendation of iPads being either added to the Middle School technology or replacing it. || Sloan Christina L. || endangered tigers ||= How can we make tigers become less endangered than they are? ||=  || Daisy Will H. Dylan || Squash ||= How can we build a squash court on the GCDS campus? ||=  || Miles V. Christian H. ||   ||= How can we make a better camouflage that will keep soldiers safer? ||=  || Miles B. Peter K. Emily R. ||   ||= How could we create and promote a food drive within Greenwich? What is the best way to choose a worthy charity? ||=  || Chris R. Ryan J. ||   ||= How would adding trampolines to the game of basketball change the game? How could we build a court at GCDS to experiment? ||=  || Matt Alex J. Melainie M || **Indoor Soccer** ||= How can we make indoor soccer better? How can we make indoor soccer more fun? How can we make availability of equipment/coaches better? ||= ** Presentation to ??? re: rule modifications, prototype for roll-up turf, and improved indoor soccer ball. ** || Sophia Lily C. || **Marine Pollution** || How can we help minimize the impact of pollution on marine life in and around the Greenwich, CT region? || ** Multifaceted awareness campaign ** ||
 * = __**Student Groups**__ || __**Common Topic**__  ||= __**Essential**__ __**Questions**__ ||= __**Products**__ ||
 * = Gabbie Whitney
 * = Chase
 * = Axel
 * = Emmeline Ellery
 * = Angelica
 * = Curtis
 * = Chaz
 * = Julia
 * = Serena
 * = Liza
 * = Connor
 * = Jebb
 * = Charles
 * = Luca
 * = William R. Lucas
 * = Allie B.
 * = Karley Carolyn Olivia
 * = Gianna Meredith
 * = Kathryn M Jessie
 * = Charlotte
 * = Avery
 * = Bailey
 * = Lucie
 * = Whit
 * = Sarah E.
 * Tarquin