Applications for the Spring 2016 Launchpad are due January 29, 2016. Tech companies in Provo will be hosting launchpads. Each site will focus on a specific topic, such as mobile development, web development, marketing and product development.

Several students from the ALC were able to participate in the Fall 2015 Launchpad had great experiences.

Visit the Lauchpad website for more information.

Here is a page with some of the games created by our students. For most of them this is the first programming they've ever done.

http://alcfilms.nebo.edu/game-design-with-scratch.html

This morning, 400 junior high-aged girls came to the ALC to participate in a girls-only field trip to promote the Hour of Code and the CodeGirl movie. The girls participated by watching half of the film and participating in coding in the individual computer labs.

We live in a world surrounded by technology. And we know that whatever field our students choose to go into as adults, their ability to succeed will increasingly hinge on understanding how technology works. But only a tiny fraction of us are learning computer science, and less students are studying it than a decade ago.

That’s why our entire school is joining in on the largest learning event in history: The Hour of Code, during Computer Science Education Week (Dec. 7-13). More than 100 million students worldwide have already tried an Hour of Code.

Our Hour of Code is a statement that the ALC is ready to teach these foundational 21st century skills. To continue bringing programming activities to your students, we want to make our Hour of Code event huge. 

Every year ALC 3D Graphic and Animation students model, texture and carve pumpkins and place them in a spooky scene to be lit and rendered. This project teaches students how to work in a 3D production pipeline, going from concept to completion. This was a fun project and best of all no pumpkin guts to clean up. 

Students in the EMR (Emergency Medical Response) course recently learned how to properly take blood pressure of fellow students, faculty, and staff at ALC.

ALC T-Shirt Contest.

Want to create the next cool t-shirt to be worn by millions of people.  We do too!  But in reality, it will be worn by hundreds of the best and brightest students in Nebo School District.  

To Enter do the following:

In the spirit of the season Mr. Powell's Digital Media class created classic B- horror movie titles for their end of term assignment. Students learned how to manipulate graphics using layers, image adjustments and other tools to create these horrifying titles. 

The ALC has been recommended for accreditation by AdvancED. An External Accreditation Team, led by Sharen Kamp, visited the school on September 29th, 2015. The accreditaion is good for 5 years and will be renewed in the 2019-2020 school year.

Memebers of the accredotation team visited all classrooms, using the AdvancED evaluation tool eleot(Effective Learning Enviroments Observation Tool).  The eleot scores placed ALC classrooms above the average of all observations scores in the AdvancED network of schools.  The eleot focuses on student engagement not on what the teacher is doing.