• New technology allows a man to walk for the first time in 5 years.
• The technology connects his brain and legs bypassing the injured spine.
• The experiment is for people who have an injured lower and upper spine.
• It requires a cap with electrodes, backpack with an amplifier, contraption called the Parastep that electrically stimulates the legs, and a belt with the controller for the Parastep.
• Before testing the system the man had to go through muscle conditioning to regain strength to prepare for standing and walking.

This year I am taking geometry with Mr. Santangelo and when class first started I expected to learn about a lot of shapes and lines. So far I have learned about lines, planes, and angles. We have learned about line segments, rays, planes, lines, points, etc. We also learned about angles on the protractor and we talked about obtuse, acute, right, and straight angles. I also expect to learn about algebraic equations tied into geometry.

In Mr. Santangelo's Geometry class he grades everything by how important he thinks an assignment is. He grades tests 40%, quizzes are 15%, classwork is 10%, and informal assessments are 35%. The thing I like most about geometry is the angles. I like to work with angles like obtuse, acute, etc. and its just fun to work with them and I have a lot of fun doing work on it. I also like to work in group projects because we get to build things because it is geometry class.

Technology is not used in my geometry class other then the times we use our computer to do activities and play games. We play this game called Kahoot-It and it's a game where the whole class plays to answer questions together. In geometry we have fun and do lots of work and we do a lot of work based off of shapes. We have fun because Mr. Sanatagelo makes it fun and we all co-operate together and we all have fun.

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