Nandan Nair

The bell rings. Children run around. Teachers go home. Homework now cries in pain as it has temporarily become a thing of the past. June 26th marked the end of the 2014-15 school year. I would like to thank Point Webster for “pointing” me in the right direction. This school is simply amazing. The teachers […]

Introduction The United States population is 320.09 million. But what is its national bird? If you guessed “bald eagle”, you’re right! Its scientific name is “Haliaeetus leucophalus”. It is the only eagle that lives in just the U.S. Human activities, such as hunting, threatened the eagle’s population. But in the 1900’s, the U.S. government passed […]

This is my second sports painting and the first on cricket. A cricket bat is in the process of smashing the ball in the air.  In this painting, I focused on reflection and use of color. The hardest part of this painting was making the logo of the Indian Premiere League look similar to the […]

During the last 9 months of research on Impressionism, I found a lot of words/artist names repeated continuously while talking or reading about Impressionism. If you know or hear about something often about Impressionism that is not in this list, do let me know. I generated this picture on http://www.wordle.net/

Brotherband – Scorpion Mountain was the first big novel that I have read completely. The whole book is 451 pages long. It is the fifth book in the Brotherband series. If you think I am writing a review of this book, I am not. At first, I did not really understand the story. Eventually, I […]

A few days ago, in Point Painters – an after school program at my school, I made a Wood Art. In this type of art, you use pieces of wood of different shapes and glue them to make an image. You should use wood glue for best results. I wanted to make something very different […]

Last week, at Point Painters, an after school program in our school, I finished making a clay mask. It looked really cool! See the picture… And, it even fit in my face! To make it, I first had to roll out a piece of clay so it was thin, and place it in the mold […]

I am in the 5th grade Point Webster Robotics Team and will be competing against the other middle schools in Quincy, MA for the President’s Cup on Saturday, May 16, 2015. Please do come and see our robot perform amazing things! Venue: Quincy High School, 100 Coddington Street, Quincy, MA-02169. For more information visit: http://www.hyperonline.org

A few days ago, on my mom’s birthday, I was thinking of what to make for her. Then it struck… Special “Chocolate Sauce”… Hmmm yum!!! Here’s the ingredients and directions: Ingredients ½ cup cold milk 1 tablespoon vanilla extract 1-2 Ferrero-Rocher Fine Hazelnut Chocolates 1 spoon cocoa powder (can be substituted with chocolate) 1 spoon […]

We got an hour to work on something that will go in front of our display board. Since the paper paint brush idea failed, I thought of making a brush with clay. However, the problem was I did not have any clay to use. Thankfully, many people in the class had clay and I could […]