8th grade service project

Coming to Holy Cross was one of the best decisions my family ever made. It was 2010 and I left my old school, old house, old friends, everything. Than I came to Holy Cross and it changed everything. I made friends immediately and felt really close to them. Even the teachers felt like family. The teachers really care about you and your grades. Holy Cross also encourages you to work hard so you can get good grades and be a better person in Gods name. It also has a decent amount of land to have outdoor activities.
 Good things about the school

• Teachers care about your education
• Friends really close and supportive
• Decent size of land for outdoor activities

Problems with holy Cross

• Sitting in classes to long makes you lose focus
• Not enough room outside for a class to go down and study the wet lands
• Not enough group building time
• Solutions for Holy Cross

• Build a sand volleyball court
• Take out the plants to make more area or make a little dock
• Build more on trail for predator prey and different areas to study nature

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Elements blog(Titanium)

Titanium

       William Gregor was the first person to discover titanium. He discovered  Titanium when he was studying rocks, and he came upon this very magnetic sand. He soon realized that this metal was a new metal. He named it Mechanite, named after Menaccan in Cornwall England. He then returned to becoming a pastor. A few years later, a man by the name of Klaproth, who was a German chemist, rediscovered the element. He did not know it had already been discovered so he named it Titanium after the Titans. Gregor and Klaproth eventually met, and they realized they had discovered the same element. The name Titanium sticks as the name, and is added to the Periodic table.

        How to make Titanium is by TiCl4 with sodium in a steel bomb at a temperature of 700-800 degrees Celsius. You can find Titanium naturally in the ground. It has many bearing ilmenite deposits in countries around the world. It is found more commonly as an element being the ninth most commonly found abundant element. You can find his element in compound form in watches, planes, and even cars. Titanium on the Periodic Table can be found In Period 4 group 4. This means it can be formed into many different shapes.