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Show SPRINGVILLE HERALD Thursday, February 9, 2006 Sage Creek School receives award from Best Buy to enhance technology at the school 16 Sage Creek Elementary School in Springville received a $2,500 tech award from Best Buy. The honor was given to them for integrating technology tech-nology into the curriculum. The funds will be used to enhance the Sage Creek Technology Club. The club is in it's second year and teaches students to create their own websites web-sites and digital videos to compete in international competitions such as ThinkQuest. "Our students love learning how to use new technology, and Best Buy has put some exciting tools into their hands," said Pam Turley, the teacher who applied for the grant. Best Buy started tech in October 2003 to reward schools that creatively integrate interactive technology tech-nology into their curricula. All accredited, public and private nonprofit elementary, ele-mentary, middle and secondary sec-ondary schools located within 50 miles of a Best Buy store were eligible to apply. Awards of $2,500 were given to nearly 1,200 schools to help sustain or enhance existing educational educa-tional programs in the schools. "Today, teachers across the country are using technology tech-nology in new and creative ways; we want to support and recognize, their efforts to make learning fun and easy," said Paula Prahl, VP of Public Affairs for Best Buy. "The tech program helps innovative educators enhance their curricula. By committing dollars to the communities in which we work and live, we can more fully support our employees, employ-ees, our customers and their families." L ii - - . r-i - i , i f hi 8 ill) tSw . v A Mm -i, if ,. 7HL, Cft. Pam Turley, center, representing Sage Creek Elementary School, enjoys a $2,500 shopping spree at Best Buy in Orem. The new equipment she picked out will support the school's Technology Club, also mentored by teachers Courtney Curtis and Pam Tippetts. Mapleton Elementary School hosts folkdancer From February 6 through February 16, Salvador Reyes, a Mexican Folk Dancer, will enrich the lives of the 3rd grade students at Mapleton Elementary School. Reyes has done residencies resi-dencies and performed throughout Utah for 20 years. He has worked for the Utah Arts Council and the Utah State Office of Education Educa-tion since 1980. He has also worked as an Artist in Residence in Alaska and Idaho. The students at Mapleton mm mm 1 HI 1 -tm - . A fbw him fe a mm M? The most effective, iuav to treat heart di. aspirin, beta-blockers and statins. 'X. , disease Once you develop heart disease, you will always have it. It's a life-long condition. Taking prescribed medications can keep your heart disease from progressing. Taking prescribed medications can save your life. UWL. Intermountairr W Utah Valley Heart Center Elementary will have the privilege of working with Reyes and learning about Mexican culture. He not only teaches the dances, but includes information informa-tion on the history, geographic geo-graphic origin, customs, traditions tra-ditions and costumes of the various dances. The third graders will perform per-form with Reyes for the school, in the Mapleton Elementary Ele-mentary auditorium on Friday, Fri-day, Febr. 17, at 1:30 p.m. For further questions you may contact the school at 489-2850. To contact Reyes, see the Utah Arts Council website. f Salvador Reyes show students the fun of f olkdancing. All-State High School Art show kicking into gear Caleb Warnock STAFF WRITER It may be just the push they need and it may change the course of their lives. More than 800 paintings, drawings, pottery pieces, collages, photographs and even jewelry from more than 70 high schools across Utah have been arriving at the Springville Museum of Art all week for the 34th Annual All-State Utah High School Art Show. Saturday was the final day the museum accepted art for the competition. Eight jurors will now select se-lect about 300 of the works for display and 59 of the pieces for awards, said Virgil Vir-gil Jacobsen, curator of education edu-cation at the museum. The works are the best of the best. Each school is only allowed to enter the number of artwork equivalent to one and a half percent of the total students enrolled in the school's junior and senior classes, meaning schools must have their own competition compe-tition to chose who may enter en-ter the Springville competition, competi-tion, he said. "It's a place to highlight the very best talents and abilities," he said. "Finding out there is a positive reaction to their work may be just the thing that spurs them on in life, said Leah Smith, art and art history teacher from Jordan High School in Salt Lake City who delivered work from 21 of her students to the museum on Saturday.. "A lot of artists don't do other things well so there is a huge validation for them to be here." The show is one of the few opportunities student artists have to display their Q TRIPLE T nQ 1 frf- " I J ! Energy prices are on the rise. Offset the rising energy prices by installing a highly fuel-efficient Bryant Furnace. I TRIPLET - ""-. On select systems. Offered by Triple T for a limited time only! 1550 North Main No Interest and sPanish Fork UT 84660 Voice 24 hr: 801-798-7711 No Payments for Fax:801-798-7793 E-mail: tttisfcn.org 12 months! Web: www.tripletheating.com - , Whatever it takes; work for a wide audience, she said. "It teaches them to set and reach a goal because they work all year to get a piece ready for this, and it teaches teach-es them to save their money so they can afford to frame the art in the best possible way," she said. Four pieces will be chosen for master's awards, ten for awards of excellence, 20 for awards of merit, and 20 more for traveling exhibition, exhibi-tion, Jacobsen said. VIn addition, three will be chosen for congressional awards and those three will be taken to Washington D.C. for display, he said. The artists of these three pieces will each be given three donated plane tickets so they and their parents may travel to see the show. One artist is chosen for outstanding high school art student of the year, and one teacher too, he said. Students are able to submit sub-mit art in 11 categories including in-cluding drawing, opaque painting, transparent wa-tercolor, wa-tercolor, sculpture, fiber, printmaking, photography, ceramics, commercial, mixed media and jewelry. Many of the winners have gone on to have careers ca-reers as artists, Jacobsen said. "Every year the quality and quantity of art the show produces has risen," he said. Art teachers "are the unsung un-sung heroes," he said. "We need to give credit to the teachers. Art teachers throughout Utah are doing a marvelous job." The 34th Annual All-State Utah High School Art Show will be open to the public from Feb. 21 through March 24. , The Springville Museum of Art, 126 E. 400 South in Springville, is open Tuesday Tues-day through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday from 3-6 p.m., and open late on Wednesdays until 9 p.m. There is no admission fee but donations are accepted. 3: |