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Yep, it was 7th grade for us. Middle school was pretty intense at my school...not just for math, it was also when we learned how to diagram sentences, write in cursive, and build our own experiments using the scientific method. This is all pretty basic stuff in hindsight, but it wasn't very fun in the moment.
Do you remember children’s programming in the ’70s and ’80s?

The discussion of grade school math right before this question led my brain to this instead of TV:

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I will say when you get put in the Gifted and Talented Program in middle school in the US all sorts of amazing opportunities abound for the teenager with little sense and way too much book knowledge.

Let's see... Aluminum powder grenades set off near the seismograph sensors, writing basic code on early Apple IIe's with 5.25 floppies for storage instead of tape recorders and cassettes, learning that magnets were a great way to mess with your rivals programs when put near their floppies, and use of a Gammtor to do radiation experiments (yes, I studied the effects of gamma rays on tropical fish as a kid).

Friends doing g-force experiments using model rockets and lab rats, it never ended well. RTFM kids when building your rocket. I don't even want to talk about trying to use a centrifuge as g-force simulator. That was just sick and wrong even for my underdeveloped sense of right and wrong at that age.

That is before you start hammering off the tips of CO2 cartridges to see who could get them deepest into the basement wall or roman candle fights at a remote coastal estuary station at night.

Thank you Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) research lab, it is a miracle I survived my childhood.
... slipping a couple of extra cards into someone's programme, that have an infinite loop on them ;)
 

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