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2025-2026 School Year and on to next year...
Well my 26th year of teaching is now complete and I am ever so proud of all my students once again. Highlights this year include another successful Student Success Expo (including this CTV story), I spoke at the University of Brandon on Artificial Intelligence, the new A.I. course I am developing for next year, and the final project videos below from all my students. I am so proud of all my…
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Sturgeon Heights Student Success Expo 2026...
This year’s annual Sturgeon Heights Student Success Expo is on Wednesday, January 21st at Sturgeon Heights Collegiate (link) (2665 Ness Ave). The Expo runs from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm. This website (link) and these videos (link) give a breakdown of the specifics. For students in Mr. Wachs’ Computer Science classes (all classes are welcome, but more specifically for CS42SAP, CS40S, and CS30S…
Why Computer Science is the Foundation of AI Literacy
Supporting students and teachers in computer science builds early technology skills in K–12 schools. (the following article was originally posted here) When I left the classroom 12 years ago, computer science was still treated like a niche pursuit, something for the few. Today, it’s the engine of change across every sector. In K–12 education, it is tied to a growing understanding that computing…
The Expo...
For the last two years, I have organized a Student Success Expo here at Sturgeon Heights Collegiate. This year, we are trying to add a new element to the expo called “The Challenge”. Read more about what the expo is and what the challenge is at our website here. Also, see this video about it below…
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25 Years of Computer Science Education
Well as we approach the end of the school year, for me it marks 25 years of teaching. It has been an honor to be an educator of some amazing kids becoming amazing adults for the last 25 years. Not sure I have another 25 in me, but no end in sight right now. It was a great year of visits to Ubisoft to see a former student and now professional game developer, another former student who won indie…
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Field Trip to Ubisoft Winnipeg
Our Digital Media teacher Mr. Rogowy won our school a trip and tour of Ubisoft Winnipeg. Combined with the contacts we made at Skills Manitoba at the game design competition (see this post) we also toured New Media Manitoba. Students from our Digital Media and Computer Science programs at Sturgeon Heights had custom tours. We also got to meet and Mr. Wachs got to catch up with a former Husky…
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Game Design Competition
Congratulations to all the Sturgeon Heights students who competed in Skills Manitoba yesterday. It was 18 years ago when I first came to Sturgeon with the amalgamation of the Silver Heights with Sturgeon Creek staff, first started integrating with vocational teachers, and heard of Skills Manitoba. Yesterday was my first time to attend in person and I was blown away. What an amazing an immersive…
Programming Contest Opportunity...
I received an email from a professor in the department of Computer Science at the University of Winnipeg for a high school programming competition. Here is the context of that opportunity below… I am sending this message on behalf of the Regional Director of the North Central North America Region of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM-ICPC) as the Manitoba representative. We…
Technology in Manitoba
The following is from the Winnipeg Free press opinion section from January 30, 2025: Regardless of how well you think the Manitoba economy is doing, chances are the innovative application of technology could make it better. The fact Manitoba is more reliant on the agricultural industry than other jurisdictions might be, for instance, does not mean tech is not important for that sector. And just…
New Computer Science and Technology Innovations...
Taking a few different and recent Computer Science/Technology stories from the news here in Canada and Manitoba. First, a new Quebec-based video game titled ‘Two Falls Nishu Takuatshina’ becomes first to incorporate Indigenous perspectives into a video game. Read more about this here and watch the video below. Secondly, Manitoba has created a new government department called the Manitoba…
Congratulations!
To the class of 2023-2024. I am proud to present this compilation video below which showcases all the final projects for all my Computer Science classes for this school year. This includes my Computer Science 20S (grade 9/10) students, Computer Science 30S (grade 10/11) students, Computer Science 40S (grade 11/12) students, and Computer Science 42SAP (grade 12 A.P.) students. This was the first…
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University of Manitoba - Computer Science field trip...
Check out this video of our end of the year filed trip to the faculty of Computer Science at the University of Manitoba. This custom tour was made possible by two former Computer Science students of Mr. Wachs and Sturgeon Heights/Silver Heights alumni Franklin Bristow and Zach Havens. Thank you to them and everyone who made the filed trip possible.
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Congratulations to a Computer Science Alumni
A former student of Mr. Wachs and Mr. Rogowy completed a term project game as seen in this post and you can see the game she developed here. Congratulations Marissa, you always made final project for me in Computer Science and now you are kicking off your gaming career with a bang!
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"How does code work?"
The quote above “how does code work?” came from one of my new Computer Science students in my introductory Computer Science 20S course. I have certainly encountered this type of question before, but this time it made me stop and think. When I thought about my answer, I thought “how deep” should my answer be? At one level I could just respond with “by telling the computer do the stuff you tell it…
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Paths to your Futures...
As students work through the middle of this school year, we have had field trips (like the RRC one in the post below this one), and school presentations from University of Manitoba, University of Winnipeg, and Red River College Polytech (RRC). As well, a student directed my to a cool website that uses a visual to see step by step guides and paths to learn different tools or technologies in…
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RRC Filed Trip...
Check out this video from our most recent field trip…
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