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Show i " : : . n -tt- ; -OX. II r . Kathy McCarthy All in the training..: Local gymnastics team training offered by Park City Leisure services winds up its ten week series Aug. 31. Team members who are six years and older, will compete in eight meets state-wide. Sehool Briefs Larsen returns to Parley's Cathy Larsen, Parley's Park Elementary School first grade teacher, will return to her classroom for the 1990-91 school year. She had been absent ab-sent last year following a pancreas transplant she underwent to overcome over-come the effects of her diabetes. An article covering her courageous trek appeared in the Utah Education Educa-tion Association Action newspaper this month. PPES teachers Kathy Heller, Patti Volla and Debbie Schirf were lauded in the account for their efforts in a campaign that raised $70,000 last summer to pay for Larsen's surgery. Kindergarten registration opens up If your child will be five years old on or before Sept. 2, 1990, kindergarten registration is now in session. Principals will be back to school Aug. 2 and hope to hear from families wishing to register their students. Parents may also call the Park City School District Office at 649-9671 to register. Board seeks names for new school The name search for Park City's new elementary school, scheduled to open by fall 1991, has solicited eight suggestions, mostly from local students. These include: Jupiter Peak Elementary School, submitted by Marie Fournier (second grade student); stu-dent); Kearns Elementary School, by Ms. Beall's fourth grade class; Park City Elementary School; Silver King Elementary School, Marie Fournier (second grade student); stu-dent); Silver Queen Elementary School, Mrs. Horyna's fourth grade class; Snow Park Elementary School, Sue Lin Hilbert (seventh grade student); Telesis Elementary School (Telesis is a Greek work which means "fulfillment"); and Meadows Elementary School, board member Val Chin. At the Board of Education meeting July 17, KPCW radio station reporter, Rick Brough, jovially suggested sug-gested the board consider the name "Jolley Elementary School," and Superintendent Nancy Moore quipped, quip-ped, "It does have a 'happy' ring to it." Brough apparently derived the name from School District Business Administrator Burke Jolley's surname. sur-name. Board members will make a decision deci-sion on the school's new name at a future board meeting. And Dr. Moore says suggestions for naming the new school are still being accepted. ac-cepted. They may be called in or mailed to the school district office. Teachers let fingers do walking by ROBIN PORTER Record staff writer People are most accustomed to seeing desk top computers in the business setting, but not usually on the desks of their school teachers. But now that mind set is about to change, due to the award of a state technology grant to Park City School District and its selection as one of seven districts in Utah chosen to participate in a computerized teacher networking system called "trACE." According to PCSD superinten-cent superinten-cent Nancy Moore, the new technology is being developed by Alpine School District in American Fork, Utah. She says the system is on the "cutting-edge" of education, and provides teachers with greater resources. "It's easily accessible and very visual. ..just an easy quick reference," Dr. Moore says, adding, "Our goal is to have one system for each teacher (within the next three to five years)." Initially, three Park City teachers (one from each local school) will attend at-tend a two-day workshop in American Fork during August. While there, they will learn how to utilize the Macintosh-compatible teacher network that accesses curriculum cur-riculum information state-wide. The sytem will enable teachers to call up lesson plans, gather teaching ideas and review curriculum requirements re-quirements within seconds on individual in-dividual computer screens. Not only will the program outline the state's basic requirements in each subject area and grade level, but teachers from within the district and around the state will be able to add their own ideas. For example, if it's a math lesson they're after, the teachers call up the math program for the grade level they teach, then call up "fractions," and a list of several teaching methods for this math concept appear on-screen. Currently, teachers must look up curriculum requirements in a variety varie-ty of manuals at least one for each subject area taught. Also, there will be add-ons to the trACE system that will allow students to view volcanic eruptions on a classroom screen, along with narration or music. Through the use of laser video discs, teachers will have access to a myriad of visual aids, with a remote control to stop the lava flow at any time for discussion. discus-sion. "Rather than charts or just inanimate in-animate (objects) in a book, these kids can see everything that goes on with a volcano and what happens," Moore says. The system is to be used as an "idea bank", she says, "the more resources teachers have, the better they're going to be." Also selected to participate in the pilot program were eleven out-of-state districts, as part of the initial "trACE Beta Sites." Alpine School District is operating the program utilizing a grant that covers all initial in-itial district's (including Park City's) software and training costs. In future years, Park City will be using state technology grant monies to pay for subsequent teacher training. train-ing. This year the district received a $130,000 Utah technology grant. During the 1990-91 school year, the three Park City teachers will have a computer at their desks, ready to use at a moment's notice. Estimated price tag per classroom is $3,000, and Alpine School District system developer Dr. Brian Page mailed Park City's CD-ROM (computer program hardware) here this month. Parkite attends engineering state Brown to hear Park City on school fund equalization Representative Glen Brown and legislative aide Mike Karj will meet with Park City.gchool District patrons in September, to hear their con-cerns.aboul;. con-cerns.aboul;. equalizing capital outlay and deb service budgets state-, being organized by school board candidate Pat Casale. Brown and Karj i; will present the Legislative perspective on the issue. Park City School Board members and district administrators have said that if the State Legislature goes through with its equalization plans, the district loss is calculated at $1.2 million over the next ten years. Some legislators who defend the plan have said that a majority of school districts stand to gain by the plan (23 out of 40). But others charge that additional ad-ditional funding for districts that cannot raise sufficient money to educate their students should come from other state sources not other school districts. Five students from Park City, South Summit and Wasatch High Schools attended the first Engineering Engineer-ing State June 25-29 at Utah State University. Bradley Peterson, son of Robert and Live Peterson attended from Park City High School. The Department of Civil and En-,,vironmental En-,,vironmental .Engineering ,at , USU conducted the program for high school students. Department head William S. Grenney, said the program pro-gram was designed to help students investigate engineering as a college major and a profession. "Our young scholars were exposed expos-ed to many engineering roles at a time in their lives when they still have time to prepare in high school for university study," he said. Some 160 young men and women who will be juniors or seniors in high school next year attended and completed com-pleted work that gives them college credit. They came from Utah, and Idaho high schools. 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