Help Desk Team Member Spotlight: Mira Mehdi

Mira is entering her second year as a member of the Burlington High School Student Technology Integration and Innovation course. She joined the program last January and quickly established herself as the resident iMovie expert. In addition, she experimented with Google Glass, the augmented reality app Aurasma, and offered her perspective on Chrome versus Safari.…

iOS 8: Coming This Fall!

This post originally appeared on Help Desk junior Danny Piotti’s blog: Apple fanatics and even Android fanatics (me) are very excited with the new release of iOS8 which was unveiled at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference on June 2. A beta version of the software was made available to developers that same day, with a public launch…

Help Desk Live- Audio

Help Desk Live Episode 1– In the debut episode of HD Live, Help Desk students Harsh and Amit, both seniors, discuss their Individual Learning Endeavors Help Desk Live Episode 2– In this episode, Help Desk juniors Mira and Danny discuss digital citizenship with our first guest, Dr. Marialice Curran, professor from St. Joseph University in…

Google Glass: Opening Eyes In All Fields

Editor’s Note: This is the second guest post from BHS students who have experimented with Google Glass. I’d like to point out that this post was the collaborative and voluntary effort of the students. After finding out that we had a pair of Google Glass, the students of Mr. Wood’s AP Biology class approached me…

BHS TED-ED: Meet the Members

“I hope to be exposed to a better platform of sharing ideas and innovation through TED because I’ve watched a lot of videos of theirs and I see all of these people coming up with new techniques to help the world progress so I want to contribute to that.”   This was junior Divyansh Shah’s…