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Show 4 8 t The Magna TimesWest Valley News, April 25, 2002 5 School West Lake students make grade in energy efficiency of the block schedule. of Granite School outstanding and one administrator were honored last Thursday evening by the Granite Education Foundation at an annual Excel Award banquet. Each of the recipients received a $1,000 check and a Franklin Covey Day Planner. Their schools will be given a $1,000 check. In addition, each received a statuette depicting the important role of teachers in the future of children. The figurine shows a teacher's hand supporting a child. The work was sculpted by J. Dell Morris, retired Granger High art teacher. Major sponsors for the event were Feature Films for Families and Fox 13. for the Excel Competition as 2,220 nominations were received. Colli Hanks, an English teacher at Brockbank was one of this year's award winners. She has worked with students in all three grade levels and says that she loves their energy and their excitement for learning when they have found something interesting to them. She has learned to meet students where they are and then tries to take them to where they should be. In addition to her classroom responsibilities, Ms. Hanks is advisor for the student body officers and the Peer Leadership Team. Some will recognize her as one of the driving forces behind Brockbank's implementation Ten Students at West Lake Junior High prepare to race solar cars they built in class. The ninth-grad- e class of West Lake Junior High has entered the Academy Of develop goals for conserving energy at home. Classroom materials for the Academy have been Energy Education sponsored by Johnson Controls, Inc. developed by the awardThe Academy is a curwinning National Energy riculum enhancement pro- - ' Fpuhdation and are made to Available to schools as a gram designed encourage students across America, courtesy of JCI. .Tit? NEF designed mategrades kindergarten through twelfth and beyond, to rials help students leam about energy and natural explore energy use and its ' resource use in fun and innothe on environment. impact "It has been a good way vative ways. The Academy is a for the students to think proabout alternative energy gram that meets the National Education Goals by improvsources," said Blaine sci- -' e Peterson, ing students' general core ence teacher at West Lake competencies, increasing stildents' knowledge of math who implemented the proand science, as well as gram for students this year. 'The first part of the year developing their reading and students learned about difwriting skills. As part of the Academy, ferent parts of energy and constudents and their teachers then looked at ways to will conduct a variety of serve energy and develop other energy sources." energy and natural resource the awareness and efficiency program Throughout the studentsTook up an ener- - , activities at the school, gy challenge that had Them - v According to Petersen, the students, teachers, administrators and parents feel that the NEF has really helped to enhance the science curriculum taught at West Lake Junior High. The culmination of the learning included having the student build a solar car. 'They were really looking forward to that project," Peterson said. The solar car kits were donated by JCI and student spent a full class period working together to build the cars and making them work in preparation for a solar race. "That was the fun part of the program," Peterson said. "The race showed them that they can get energy from the sun." In the process of building and racing the solar cars, students had to figure out how much energy would need to be used in order to get the cars to work." multi-disciplina- ry ninth-grad- I encourage everyone to visit the school and find out some of the marvelous ideas this staff is doing on behalf of students in the area. Colli is a tremendous teacher as well as a marvelous example of the talent in the Granite School District. graduating from High and gamering a mathematics degree. Ember Stoirs decided to return to Cyprus and give back to the community that helped her succeed. When she realized that something was missing in the math piogram, she rallied the support and resources of the administration and opened seveial sessions of concurrent enrollment for her math students. She estimates that students will have saved $47,400 in combined tuition costs as a result. After writing a couple of grants to support the concept, Mrs. StoiTs otganized a program known as Vertical math Teaming in which teachers meet every month in the evening to discuss the needs of the students in the Magna area. teachers are in These with the same students for six years. After 1 i ' t It came down to the last seconds of the game as Eisenhower's Theron Johnson buzzed in with the correct answer to a math problem that catapulted the team into the Academic Games Finals. The undefeated Eisenhower Junior High School Academic Games team beat Inman Middle School of Atlanta The one point victory was the closest game they had played all season. "We met a team that was just as good as we were," said Marcia Peck, Eisenhoweris team advisor. 49-4- 8. lit came down to who was lucky. Theron is really good in math and he came up with the answer first." Eisenhower led throughmatch out the up that involved a series of questions and answers and presentation. Utah led Atlanta 6 after the first period and barely in stretched their lead 2 the second period. Both teams scored 20 points in the presentation round making the speed round in the fourth period a tight match. 'The questions were a little harder than other games," Peck said. 'There were times when neither teajn knew the answer. I think the parents in four-quart- er 7-- 16-1- Box Tops award for Copper Hills L Copper Hills Elementary School has been selected to receive a $2,000 grant from General Mills. The school was one of 50 schools across the country to be selected to receive the General Mills' Box Tops for Education program for Parental Involvement. Copper Hills will use the $2,000 grant toward establishing a program that will encourage parental involvement at the school. The money will be used to open a child care p that will allow parents with younger children to volunteer in classrooms of their older children. Often parents with younger children are hesitant to become involved in school volunteerism because they have younger children at home who need to be cared for The Co-o- p will allow more parents to get involved who might have had the opportunity due to lack of child care. - Woid Magna TimesWest Valley News C"V 8980 W. 2700 S. 250-G- 0 sr H: f-- w v i? snnypji GEO o3i033G . aa&EH amWmii i tygrayuiHSinD co-o- RAMLET & ASSOC, (800) INC INC 11728 Woodward St., Department Overland Park, KS 66210 Toll Free m mm. wjcrLWiim..uwi - n M iaaw hmmuhw : v4u,;,ys ' the audience were more nervous that the team. It was a very exciting game." With only seconds left in the game, Inman took its only lead of the game going into the last question. "It was all riding on Theron Johnson," Peck said. 'That is a lot of pressure to put on an eighth grader." The televised game from the Eccles Broadcast studio on the University of Utah campus has about a delay between Utah and Atlanta causing the students to have to wait longer than normal to find out if they were the first team to correctly buzz in. "The tension was so high," Peck said. "As soon as they announced that we got the answer right they all screamed." Eisenhower's win in the Final Four competition will send them on to the National Finals Thursday, April 25 where they will compete with Carson Middle School of Pittsburgh. GRAFTERS SUPPLY, alan.baileygranite.kl2.ut.us That's what we do. sends Eisenhower to final game Editor sonality. According to the nominator, he is desetibed as being an extremely bright, dedicated, and a disciplined administrator and a cieative problem solver. such as organized, fair, conscientious" and congenial are used to describe the qualities of this remarkable individual. Having personally worked with these individuals or witnessed the impact their programs have on children, I congratulate each and encouiage the public to take a few minutes to get to know these remarkable people. Remember to attend the organization meeting for Matheson at 7 on May 2 in the auditorium. The committee needs to be there at 6:30. The principal's email is: Printing Buzzer-beat- er By DEBBI OLSON 1 This year's Administrator of the Year honors goes to Mike Fraser of Hunter High. Anyone who has had any contact with this man realizes in a heartbeat the love and compassion that he has for the students. Amazing and exemplary things have happened at Hunter High because of his commitment to the success of students and his virtuous per- u 3CUA t r : |