On Monday, December 22, the Gateway 9 students are invited to a short afterschool holiday party, featuring a magic performance by Mr. Munsey. Come share holiday cheer, cookies and cider with your classmates and teachers!
Gateway 9 Magical Holiday Party (12/22)
Gateway 10 Movie Night: "The Dark Knight"
On Friday, thanks to the dedicated efforts of our Gateway Student Activities Committee and their supporting parent volunteers, many of our Gateway 10 students will enjoy a screening of the new DVD release "Dark Knight," preceded by plenty of pizza.
An alternative movie choice, next door to the "Dark Knight" showing, will be offered to any students who would prefer to watch a lighter type of movie.
Special thanks to Mrs. Carol Antonelli and Mrs. Carla Webster-Reid for supporting our students through the planning of their first successful Gateway social activity! We're looking forward to more exciting events produced by the students later in the year.
One More Photo from BIDMC
This group photo from our 11/21 afterschool field trip to Beth Israel was shared with me by a Gateway 9th grade student. Great turnout of our 9th grade students on this trip!
Broad Institute Selects Gateway Student!
Congratulations to Gateway sophomore Michael Creese, for becoming the first O'Bryant student ever to be selected to participate in a semester research project at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. In February 2009, Michael will join 14 other high school sophomores from schools throughout the Boston area, to conduct a group research project in microbiology.
Congratulations to Michael for paving the way for future O'Bryant students to join this great program!
Math Team Challenge
Here's a problem that the Gateway math team will be tackling soon. Would you have any idea how to go about this?
You have a board with checkers set up in the standard configuration (i.e. the black squares on the first three rows and the last three rows have pieces on them, while all the others do not). You can make a piece jump over one that's diagonally adjacent to it and remove the piece that was jumped over.
After doing this repeatedly, can you end up with just one piece in the bottom left square?
Hint: This has something to do with what is called modulo (or modular) arithmetic, which the math team has been learning about recently. This is a tool used in number theory, which is a major topic in college-level math.
