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Show 0 R E M TIMES Thursday, April 3, 2008 Science a hit at Orem Elementary Page 6 NEWS AND IDEAS Mountain View Election Week Runs through Friday. An Election Week assembly will be held on Friday at 9 am Class Officer Of-ficer Election Week begins on Monday. Josteni Graduation Hems Will be delivered to students today and Friday at noon. MORP Dance Will be held on Friday at 8:30 p.m. Utah County Academy of Sciences State Science Olympiad The Wah County Academy of Sciences performed well at Saturday's Sat-urday's state Science Olympiad held at Weber State University, placing fifth out of 24 teams. In its third year in the competition, UCAS's team improved from a We carry building materials, paint, cabinets, lighting fixtures, furniture and appliances. BE5T PRICES ON LITTLE GIANT LADDERS! Donate all your surplus building materials, hardware, tools, and furniture to Habitat far Humanity Hu-manity to help Utah families and further our cause. Habitat for Humanity' 626 N. Freedom Blvd., Proro C (373-7867) 10 6 M-F, 9-3 Sat Aa Ml -4 (OTSactal! ffip fining Saturday, pniii'D mm m Bam n o 43 FROM CLASSROOMS AND EDUCATORS seventh place finish last year. Students Leland Fmley and Erik Rkhter took home first-place first-place finishes (worth $000 in scholarships) in the Bag 'O Bones and health science categories. cat-egories. Gary Crofts and Kade Bishop took First in ecology. Silver medal winners were Ammon Martin (circuit lab), and Kade Bishop and Frederick Nette (cellular biology). Bronze medals went to Gary Crofts and Kade Bishop (Fermi lab). Gary Crofts and Kade Bishop took home, $4,000 and $3,400, respectively, in scholarship money. Lakeridge Jr. High Primary Student Elections Will be held on Friday. Cherry Hill Bern. dark Planetarium presentation presenta-tion for sirth-g raders Clark Planetarium will be presenting a special program today for sixth-grade students. Individual classes will meet with presenters present-ers and a genera! program assembly as-sembly will be held at 9:30 am MARS testing WiD be held ZIONS BANK half marathon april 5th tatemacfe park " vera irm Monday through next Friday for fourth- and fifth-graders. "Guys and Dolls" Cherry Hill Elementary presents its production of "Guys and Dolls" Wednesday. April' 9. and Thursday, Thurs-day, April 10, at 9 45 am and 6 p.m. On Friday, April 11, other schools will be invited to attend the play at 9:30 am Advance tickets are available at the school front office and seating is limited so purchase tickets early. Tickets are $1 per person or $5 per family to ew er the play's production expenses. Orem Elementary Chorus Concert Will be held tonight at 7 pm Report Cards Report cards will be sent home with students on Friday. Speech, Art and Writing Fair The USDB Speech, Art and Writing Fair will be on Friday at 7 pm MARS testing For grades fourth and fifth runs Monday through next Friday. Earthquakefflainbow Evacuation Evacu-ation drill Will be held on Thursday, April 10. at 10:30 am. V relay 5k ''Gar firsmakar Mir Eitaihnfar ys&w fli&rtter it it it Kjiinffiiijpi styj Gsses SuncrestElem. SEP Conferences Will be held today from 3 45 to 7:45 p.m. Walk-a-thon pledge envelopes en-velopes sent home With students on Friday. Early collection col-lection day will be on April 10. Any st udent who has at least $10 in pledges by April 10 will get an extra recess and Pop-side Pop-side on April 1 1. Moms and Muffins For kindergartern students will be Wednesday at 9:30 am and again at 1 p.m. After-school Parent Showcase Will be on Thursday. April 10, from 630 to 8 p.m.' Utah Puppet Theater An assembly will be held on Friday. Fri-day. April 1 1. at 9:30 am Vineyard Elem. Library Dedication to former Vineyard teacher Vineyard Elementary School is created the Laura Stuver Autism Resource Re-source Library at the school in memory of the autistic kindergarten kin-dergarten teacher and district autism specialist who passed away last year at age 36 from cancer. The library is intended as a resource for parents, teachers and community members who have need of information about autistic children. An open house for the Laura Stuver Autism Resource library li-brary is scheduled of Tuesday. April 22. from 4 to 7 pm at the school. One of Laura s former students currently in high 5chooL is doing his Eagle Scout project to help set up the Hbrarv. Brayden Santo "HeSo. this fe Brayden sh Ccmcast QrienlaliQQ Services, hem" are you doing today?" is probaMy my most stated foe at work. Yes. I am a customer serrfce repmettath e. and yes. I work at an outbound caS center, bs its real- not as bad as you think. Let me exptast: I Fcr a startrg pay cf S3 an how, why not sat ia a rice, comfy dfcmk fcr a four-hour mm home - auto life business 1 I Z4 lJ I AT (TtWinER ij 1- Michael Rigert NORTH COUNTY STAFf If a visitor walked into some of the classrooms at Orem Elementary School on Tuesday, he may have surmised sur-mised that the school specializes special-izes in scientific experiments and research. Whether participating in a demonstration of the effects of liquefaction after a large flood, operating a hydraulic robotic arm to pick up and move objects, or re-enacting a baby dinosaur's first day in a Jurassic world filled with puppets representing various prehistoric creatures, students at Orem Elementary revelled in their exploration of science during the school's Jr. Engineering Engi-neering Day. Sponsored by Utah State University, the traveling program pro-gram provides a wealth of scientific sci-entific concepts and hands-on demonstrations for teachers to help students "live" science rather than just read about or watch someone else demonstrate demon-strate it. said Orem Elementary Elemen-tary principal Brad Davjes. Divided into various age groups, students visited 10 science sci-ence stations throughout the course of the day to team about everything from earthquakes and hurricanes to principles of flight and how electricity works. Later Tuesday night, students revisited the science stations and demonstrated to their parents, siblings and friends the new -found knowledge knowl-edge and scfert iffc principles they learned by day. In Deanne Williams s classroom turned laboratory, third-grade students learned what could happen to homes if the Deer Creek Dam ever shift, and call people? I There are so marry people to cal that when one hangs up on you. its really not that big a deal My personal "ten-key" skiSs have much improv ed. I can dial a full lO-digi phone number in less than 5 seconds. Usually, peopfe who think they know their customer ben-eftsjdonl. ben-eftsjdonl. I Have a rude customer en the 6ne? Press the mute but- ten and let them know jour true feefegs. Everyone else in the cKke v3 then press their rrrie buttons and b'jgh akrg 'th ycu. I Peopfe have more spy-ware arad viruses tftan they tfek iO ton twJbctBhssinnccxom 305 K. FREEDOM BLYDc PROYO 1SltewrfiAfii:(iili 9 I : 1 IP? broke and flooded the valley. val-ley. Through a process called liquefaction, homes would be sucked under by the water-saturated water-saturated ground soil, similar to the effect of quicksand. To illustrate its effects, students put an arm into a large tube filled with water and sand and Williams would trigger a motor mo-tor that created a vacuum-like force. The kids found it impossible impos-sible to pull their arm out of the tube white the liquefaction was taking place. She said the USU Jr. Engineering En-gineering program allows teachers and students to engage in fun and creative hands-on experiments and activities ac-tivities that would be difficult to reproduce otherwise. "They love science. They really re-ally do," Williams said. "Anything "Any-thing that is real life to them is a peak experience." Fifth graders Abby Madsen and Robbie Hutchins were enthralled with their hydrau-lics'pneumalics hydrau-lics'pneumalics science station in Tereasa Whitehead's classroom. class-room. Groups of four students would control various articulated articu-lated components of a hydraulic-powered robotic arm. They had to work as a team to be able to operate the arm properly prop-erly and pick up objects. "It was pretty easy but it took a while to figure out which was which." Madsen said. Whitehead said a few students stu-dents "moaned and groaned" Monday when they learned they 'd be doing science all day. But those same students were saying things like "This is great," during Tuesday's activities. "I think something they didnt understand was how exciting ex-citing science can be." she said. they do. Its my job to he!p them I After connecting to the customer's computer remoter, big proMems suddenly become smaller, since it's easier to diagnose. di-agnose. Working at a call center really re-ally isn't as bad as mam people say it is. Then again. I'm not sdfog anything; I'm just trying try-ing to help people understand what they are buying. Generally, pecpte are pretty willing, and not rude. I'm not sure what other caS centers are Eke. but as for mine. I'm just fine. Win a relaxed atmosphere, atmo-sphere, great co-workers, and a jefe that fe actually heJpirg people. I reaSy do love my job. Rc SihcMo ir hc:) fQ uu m M ' i |