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“RHCDS introduced Chromebooks this year as an agile research and composition tool. The school is 100% GSuite beginning in grade five, which includes tools such as Gmail, Google Docs, Sheets and Slides. The Chromebooks are tremendous productivity tools and since they’re natively “Google”, GSuite runs extremely well in concert with the built-in keyboards, trackpads, touch […]

Country Day Middle School Students were honored to have Mr. Rose, 11-year Google veteran and Founder of Ready by Area 120 at Google, speak to them about his personal journey getting to Google and navigating various career paths through the tech giant. Mr. Rose chronicled his time in marketing working in South Korea, which led […]

The Middle School students had a presentation on Online Safety by Detective Jenna Wolfinger of the Redondo Beach Police Department. Detective Wolfinger discussed several of the popular social media sites and online games such as Snapchat, Instagram, Musical.ly, and Overwatch. She had an open discussion with the students to find out what they liked about […]

Mr. Allan Hardy, Computer Teacher presenting to parents at Middle School Orientation about one of last year’s projects, Microsoft SWAY. Last year’s Grade 7 class worked collaboratively in groups in Microsoft SWAY.  The project was called “Problems and Solutions”. Students were to find a problem and try to solve it. Some projects were sent to […]

Today Google visited RHCDS and brought three sets of their Expeditions program.  This program allows teachers to take students on a fully immersive, 360 degree tour of notable places.  It integrates 30 mobile devices within individual cardboard sleeves, all connected to a dedicated router and teacher device.  The entire system is self contained, requires no internet access and […]