Lodie and Angel kicked butt at the Web Design competition and got gold.

Hannah competed in the pin design competition with her Champ pin and won silver.

Kody and Chace competed in the 3D competition and brought back gold medals.

Allie and Trono competed in the 3D competition and got bronze.

Shelby and Lizzie teamed up last minute due to an absence and would have totally made silver if they didn’t get disqualified.

Quizbowl took gold again this year but it wasn’t so easy. The rules have changed since last year, but luckily Gonzo was there to fix everything.

Trolol working hard on his 3D advertisement.

Overall this was a great and memorable competition for CAWD and everyone is looking forward to going to Kansas City.

Here are the top 15 pins, in no specific order, for CAWD. All of these pins were created entirely by students. This means none of this work was clipart or stock photography.

7 of these pins were created by CAWD I students, and the remaining 8 were created by CAWD II students.

Note: Open first image with lightbox, then use arrows on keyboard to navigated between previous and next pins.

Let us know which one you like best, give us some feedback, or even how you would vote in the comments.

TJ took silver in pin design and Goodie and Grizzles took bronze in web design. Along with our web and pin team we had a quizbowl team that consisted of Angel, Dwatts, CTall, Rathburn and myself.

After a long layover and playing Mario Kart for the DS on the plane ride we arrived at the hotel.

It had 14 floors, a pool, glass elevators, free breakfast and was perfectly setup for dropping things on the unsuspecting people below. We attended only the mandatory meetings and ceremonies and spent the rest of our time doing things like visiting the Apple Store, going to GameStop, and playing Smash.

Cronin ‘Leroy-ed’ it across a street and almost got us hit by a car on our way to PF Changs for lunch. We watched the Futurama premier and attempted to throw together a poker game and then waited until 2am for our pizza that never got delivered.

We had lunch at a hipster restaurant called Blanc Burgers and Bottles where we ate 100$ burgers and fries served in mini shopping carts then shoved into a van that was NOT meant to fit all 10 of us.

We made a trip to the grocery store where TJ and Cronin split a case of Mountain Dew and TJ ended up carrying it all the way back to the hotel in the 90+ degree heat. And somehow while all of us were sweating and whining about the heat Waters managed to never take off his sweatshirt. We ate the worst pizza any of us had ever tasted, and during the competitions we walked around the booths and got Autodesk bandanas and attempted to trade pins with other states.

We chugged cherry limeade and TJ turned a big pillow into Goodie.

We visited Coldstone Creamery and got some ice cream that melted as soon as we stepped outside and overall we had a great trip, had a lot of fun and did well at nationals then almost missed our flight home because everybody slept through their alarms. And somehow by the end of the trip I had no silly bandz left. Goodie, if you’re reading this I want my pink hippo back!

View all of the photos from the trip here in a flash gallery.

~Nikki

Quizbowl playing hacky sack after their Quizbowl win. Video in HD from the new Flip HD.

Yeah they weren’t that good, it’s becuase I’m running the camera rather than playing.

Quizbowl Gold being announced for Cawd. They weren’t that excited because they had known that they had won for about 8 hours already and they were coming down from the sugar high.

Here is the GOLD winning website from Mandrake and Muir.

The design was by mandrake, and the coding was done by Muir. The team was provided only with a couple of videos, pictures and text files; and then asked to create a fully functioning and valid website in 4 1/2 hours. They were provided with 2 logos to chose from but decided that neither fit their design, so Mandrake designed a new cleaner logo for the grind. The website also used flash to embed videos into the site validly and lightbox2 to display images.

So this year cawd will be taking 8 kids (9 if you count Trayah, 10 if you count Cronin as well) to the National SkillsUSA Competition in Kansas city this June.

Congratulations to Stowe, Goodie, Shannon, Sagen, Waters, Griggs, Billings, Williams, Muir and Mandrake for representing Cawd at the Vermont SkillsUSA competition and bringing home 9 medals in total.

~Dr. Herr

Web design
Mandrake / Muir – Gold
Williams / Billings – Bronze

Pictures and videos tomorrow. To tired to do it tonight and there’s a hockey game onto tonight. Go Cats Go!

Make sure the speakers are cranked; check it:

http://yvettesbridalformal.com

Anyway, everyone have a good vacation and see you in 09.

PEACE

~The Cronin

We found out that students can do a portfolio review once accepted where their CAWD work can potentially get them out of classes at Lyndon. You get the college credit, but you don’t need to pay, or take the classes if you can demonstrate you already have the knowledge. Seems good to me.

We had lunch with the students / faculty, and all agreed that the french fries were pretty much amazing. The fish sticks….big disappointment.

We also got to see Markus (CAWD ’08) Alex’s brother, randomly in the cafe. The head of the Digital Media program said that “Just last week Markus had done work which blew him away“. So yeah, Markus appears to be doing pretty well. For those that don’t know Markus, he is the one giving the hug to Brian…or here.

….Brian doesn’t look too thrilled……

So yeah….

~ The Cronin

So now we have some new chairs in class that aren’t falling apart and squeaky. They also have arms and seat backs that don’t randomly fall off. So just a heads up, you mess around with these chairs, and I may have to send you to live on this farm I was mentioning. Also, the new carpet is in and looks pretty good with the dim lights and the new chairs.

Sadly, for the third straight summer, the tables that are attached to the side wall were not raised up and are still pretty low. So, you might want to get to class early this year or get stuck at the preschool hieght desks, your call.

For you second year, the second projector and screen have been installed so we can watch movies and play 64 when the first years are in English… Just kidding, you second years better be ready to learn some serious Chuck Norris like PHP skills and maybe a little jQuery / Ajax.

See you all Wednesday.