Superintendent's Weekly Reflections
Well, it is the first full week of December and all through the district, many students and staff have been busy with projects and full of the winter spirit. The winter concerts and activities are in full swing. The schools and streets are alive with a festive energy as we await winter. I love this time of the year. (especially when the snow stays in the mountains ;>)
At Whitman Middle School, students completed the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Christopher W. Grady’s STEM challenge. Led by engineering teachers, James Shabazz III and LaTasha Watson, students had one week to construct structures out of one roll of tape and 30 sheets of paper which could then support a can of tomatoes for 60 seconds. Students gained additional points for using fewer sheets of paper. All of the teams’ structures successfully held the can of tomatoes for 60 seconds. The Admiral and School Board Member Karen Corbett Sanders were very impressed by the students’ communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills! Congratulations to the first-place team, Darpan and Zen. Great job, Wildcats!
To celebrate Computer Science Education Week/Hour of Code Week, I went to Crossfield Elementary School’s STEAM lab. The STEAM lab is run by the school’s school-based technology specialist, Holly Sims. Students were working on the Portrait of Graduate Collaborator skill: “when a problem arises, I work to find a solution.” They were debugging the code of using Dash and Dot robots! Well done, Rockets!
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