This week students learned how to upload photo galleries onto their pages. Like the ones you have seen on our home page and this blog, photo galleries give page masters and viewers a neater, more organized way to view many pictures. The SWAT Team used pictures they saved from their jump drives. The following week (Feb. 4), SWAT is canceled due to several Mardi Gras parades rolling. The week following (Feb. 11), SWAT is again canceled due the Mardi Gras holiday week.

Benjamin Franklin Extension's 7th grade class participated in a science fair that was judge by doctoral students from Tulane University. 
Jabreel Walker, a graduate of Prairie View A&M College in chemical engineering and member of the Society of Women Engineers, was the guest speaker. 
Walker stressed the importance of hard work in the math and sciences and effective language and communication skills. 
S.W.A.T. Team member Memory won first place for his project, "Do Submarines Need Fins to Maneuver Through Water?"

After mastering the digital camera and its settings, SWAT Team members put their skills to use by taking pictures and learning how to save those pictures from the camera to computers. 
Many times our cameras and cell phones become fill from the amount of pictures we take. By knowing how to move them to the computer, we are creating space for more pictures! The members learned how memory cards fit into computers; used memory card readers and how to create files on the computer and their jump drives.

Happy New Year! The SWAT Team was excited to be back and jumped right back into the swing of things with learning how to use various cameras. In their classrooms, teachers have cameras and SWAT members