Archive for February, 2010
DCS Athletes in Italy
Seven of the schools athletes and coach Steven Macklin travelled to Italy to take part in the IAAF Cinque Mulini International Cross-Country at the end of January. The athletes took part in the youth 6km race for those born in 1993/1994 and raced to a superb team win, with 6 athletes finishing in the top 18. The races were held in the town of San [...]
Web Design at DCS
A group of 20 Transition Year students have just started a module in Web Design in the school. Run by four past pupils who are currently in University College Cork; the Douglas Community School students are learning how to write HTML code. They will each design their own webpage with pictures, links, music and videos. Watch this space, as we hope [...]
Seeking to Retain Robotics Crown
On 11 February four second year Douglas Community School students will attempt to defend the title of Lego Mindstorms Robotics Champions won last year. The team of Jordan Smith, Daniel Mason, Michael McLaughlin and Eoghan O'Brien have been hard at work learning the new skills involved in robotics and model construction. They then had to build [...]
