Many people have unique and beautiful stories, but the one that I am about to tell you is very special to me. Stavroula Mavrogeorgis is the grandmother (or Yiayia in Greek) of two children, Eve my older sister and me, Ruby Cogan. Stavroula, my Yiayia, had always wanted to be a godmother but no-one had […]
Read MoreThis year I had the honour of being the girl school captain of my school, Claremont College, for 2015. Of all the speeches I did this year, my favourite was my Valedictory Speech in front of the students, parents and teachers. I loved writing the speech because it was a trip down memory lane, remembering all of […]
Read MoreGoogle Maps – The Australian Co-Inventor, Noel Gordon Co-Inventor of Google Maps – Noel Gordon Full Interview Here is the long interview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb4NHfeIAnM For my big assignment this year in Year 6, I had to choose a great Australian. I interviewed Australian Noel Gordon, who is the co-inventor of Google Maps. He is an […]
Read MoreI am 11 years old and I just finished a video game called “Tomb Raider”, which was based on the movie, Tomb Raider. The video game is about a girl, named Lara Croft, (who is played by the famous actor, Angelina Jolie). I have watched both movies but that did not really help in playing […]
Read MoreLast year I was grateful to be chosen to be the 2015 Girl School Captain for Claremont College. This year I have been very busy doing speeches, raising the flag in the mornings, talking to parents during functions and generally trying to be a good School Captain along with Tom Findlay, who is our Boy […]
Read MoreI was asked to be a part of an advertisement to help save Australia’s environment. It was organised by Getup who help protect Australia’s environment. I thought the video was funny. The video shows a classroom in 2025 where 4 kids (including me) are telling their holiday stories during “Show and Tell”. Each student has […]
Read MoreMy biggest school project is done. Our project is called the S.K Austin and it is very important. This year our teachers Mr Paton and Miss Divers told Year 5, that we all had to do a digital project. I chose to create a video documentary on the famous Australian, Dick Smith. Creating my documentary […]
Read MoreI did a test to see which Microsoft Surface keyboard is better, the ‘Touch’ or the ‘Type’. I put the two Surface keyboards up for the ultimate words per minute (wpm) battle. The result was very clear. I had much more experience with the Touch that came with the Surface, although I felt the […]
Read MoreIt has been an exciting journey on Khan Academy earning my first 50,000 points. I am 9 years old and about to turn 10 and I have been using Khan Academy in my spare time. I find it an amazing program and I have learnt so much about maths, computer programming and many other cool, […]
Read MoreI have made a new discovery. Pinterest is a great app for tagging photos. I like it even better than using Google Maps Engine that I did a video on earlier this year.
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