Future City Competition

Dylan and Mikhaya present to a group of engineers.

On 1/24/15 Dylan Morris and Mikhaya Tucci competed at the Future City Regional Competition. Having already submitted their Sim City design, and finalized 2 essays, they prepared a 3d model of their city and presented to engineers who assessed their work. They did a great job competing and are definitely excited to take their experience into the competition next year. Dylan Morris confirmed, "It was a great experience because it was challenging and fun at the same time." Mikhaya added that it" helped her with her social skills having to speak in front of different adults." If you see these two, be sure to ask them about this competition!

Dylan and Mikhaya make some last minute revisions to their presentation.

Guest Speaker: Wes Gaedke, West Bend Taxi Service

Wes Gaedke, the Regional Manager for the West Bend Taxi Service, came in on November 20, 2014. Wes explained to the students that the taxi service is more complicated than anyone assumes. There are a copious amount of people that use their taxi service in one day. Commonly it is around 350-500 people with 14 taxis altogether. Of these people, 75% are handicapped or elderly, 8% are students, and the last 17% are any other people. The taxi drivers are their own bosses and in charge of their expenses. They get their assignments from the dispatchers though and whoever is closest gets it.

By: Adam Fehring

Field Trip: Milwaukee County Zoo

Pathways' students studied habitats at the zoo

The first field trip of the school year, which related to the Agriculture career cluster, was a trip to the Milwaukee County Zoo. The main reason we went to the zoo was to study the habitats of all the animals. This related to habitats that we created for an invented “Switch Zoo animal.” (SwitchZoo is an App that you can combine four animals into one, creating a new species. Visit http://switchzoo.com/zoo.htm to create your own animal, and consider the type of habitat necessary to sustain your creation.)

A work in progress- a model of a
fictitious animal's habitat.

When we got to the zoo we had two guest speakers. They talked about how they care for the animals and how their habitats are specifically designed for them. This helped us understand why the animal needed the specific features of each habitat. After we had the speakers we had a chance to walk through the Zoo and find our animals to see the habitats. We then took pictures of various habitats and used them to write a compare/contrast essay. Overall the trip to the zoo was not only educational but fun, and a great experience.


By Genna Puestow