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ALAMANCE-BURLINGTON SCHOOLS AROUND OUR SCHOOLS SHOUT OUTS Feb 26, 2016

Shout Out to Western High Susan Howard Congratulations to our Western High State Champions! Our team, Aperture Science, won Saturday at North Carolina A & T State University. With an awesome robot performance, the team won the finals together with Guzzoline from Asheville and Unparalleled Processing from Durham.

In addition, they won the Control Award for their software.

The hard and relentless work the team has put into the robot over the past weeks and months has paid off! Now they are headed to the Super Regionals in San Antonio, Texas in March!!

Team Members: Tobias Fischer Lucien Gauthier Beren Hollingsworth Phillip Hooper Samantha Luu Clayton Sommers Matt Wells

Congratulations and Good Luck in Texas!


Shout Out from Smith Elementary Lindy Isley, Teacher/Librarian

Smith Sweethearts The Seabees at Smith held a fundraiser for their fifth grade Sound to Sea trip this spring. It was in the form of a dance after school. The third, fourth and fifth graders were invited to the gym on the Friday before Valentine’s Day. The kids jammed out to the sounds spun by DJ Chubber May. There were lots of dance offs between the boys and the girls during the event. The students purchased glow sticks, bracelets and necklaces to light up in the darkness of the gym. There were snacks sold and parents even manned a photo booth where the students got to pose for some great pictures.

Our students had a great time and some teachers even got into the fun! Smith School rocks!


Shout Out from Western High Elizabeth Danieley, Team Advisor

The Western Alamance High Science Olympiad team competed this past weekend and WE WERE AWESOME! 1st Place Awards: Gigi Gauthier and Jacob Maniattu in Anatomy and Physiology Mackenzie Leavitt and Holland Whitaker in Forensics Carson Lafferty and Jacob Maniattu in It's About Time 3rd Place Awards: Carson Lafferty and Joseph Halachef in Bridge Building Josiah Mitchner and Vaughn Roy in Electric Vehicle Micah Long and Carson Lafferty in Wind Power Our team won 5th place overall in the regionals. Some of our team members will be able to advance to the state competition in their category to compete.


The whole team is listed below. They did awesome!!

Kevin Le Hannah Ni Beren Hollingsworth Gigi Gauthier Michael O'Brien Micah Long Jason Cheung Carson Lafferty Holland Whitaker Jacob Manniatu Joseph Halachef Josiah Mitchner Makenzie Leavitt Ryan Koonts Vaughn Roy Shivang Patel


Shout Out from Eastern High Patrick Stokes & John Kirby

Mark your calendars for March 26!

Here is a great way to support our

Eastern High Eagle efforts to build a

new field house for our athletics

program.

The owner of Solteria is an Eastern

graduate and thought this would be a

nice way to give back!


Shout Out from Graham Middle Lisa Cates, 6th Grade ELA

6th grade GMS students using chrome books on National Digital Learning Day. Students using www. Readtheory.org passages to show what they know about CCS Central Ideas and details.


Shout Out from Southern High FFA Nick Anders, Advisor

Our Southern High FFA Club was invited to visit the Burlington Men's Garden Club Tuesday night. We did a presentation about FFA and our chapter and our Horticulture program.

“We enjoyed the program you and your students presented at our meeting Tuesday night. Your students are great young people and I know you are proud of them.” -Dudley Clinard


Shout Out from Graham High Tracey Patterson

GHS Ensemble makes the Red Devils proud! Thursday night, the Graham High School Ensemble, directed by Mrs. Jennifer Wells, sang the National Anthem at the Greensboro Coliseum for the UNC Greensboro versus The Citadel men’s basketball game! Who knows? Maybe their outstanding performance inspired the Spartans to their 92-63 victory! Fabulous job GHS Ensemble - way to represent our Graham High community with your excellence! #thinkRED


Shout Out from Broadview Middle Jordan Hohm

Don’t miss our Broadview Middle Silent Auction! It will be held on March 3 from 5:30-8pm at Broadview Middle School! Our students will be there, dressed formally and ready to engage you in conversation about their trip to Washington, DC from April 21-24. They're thrilled to host you at their stomping grounds. Even if you do not intend to purchase anything, you are welcome to come to speak with our students about their trip!

At left: Our students, after opening the invitation to DC--as long as they do the work to earn the trip! The Details:

There is no cost for admission to the auction.

A list of items for sale is below, but that list is growing every day!

You can pay for the items you win at 8pm, when all items will be closed out. If you are not present at 8pm, we will notify you via e-mail or phone that you won the item and we will discuss payment/receipt of item.

There will be complimentary drinks and light snacks provided and homemade baked goods (lovingly made by staff members at Broadview) to purchase.

ALL proceeds will benefit our trip to Washington, DC! Feedback

from last year's trip is listed on our GoFundMe and Weebly sites, listed below.

www.gofundme.com/bobcatsgotodc (for a story of this year so far, photos of our students, etc.) www.broadviewdctrip.weebly.com (for pictures of all items and more details about the trip) Items for sale:

Four tickets to the Durham Bulls Two tickets to the Conservator's Center in Burlington $50 certificate to Prego's Trattoria Art Class from the Painter's Roost Full year's membership to the Burlington YMCA Authentic pearl necklace donated by the Mebane Tanger Outlets 30-minute massage from HealthSource Screening and four hours of tutoring at Sylvan Three certificates for one knitted item, you choose the color and pattern

http://www.gofundme.com/bobcatsgotodc

http://www.gofundme.com/bobcatsgotodc

http://www.broadviewdctrip.weebly.com/


Themed baskets: Family Night, Pamper Yourself (4), I Love Cupcakes, Coffee Lovers, Pasta Night, Chocolate Lovers, Ice Cream Sundae, Movie Night, Breakfast Foods, School Supply, Taco Night

Shampoo and Style from Salon K Gift cards to: Fat Frogg, Tangent, The Root, Hibachi Buffet, Yo Zone!, Red Bowl, Mellow

Mushroom, Mykonos Grill, The Cutting Board, Mosca's, Carolina Ale House, Argy's Diner, Golden Corral, and Freddy's Burgers

Signature sunglasses from Lane Jewelers Hand-knit pink and purple shawl Tax service Training Session at Gold's Gym 12-week subscription to the Burlington Times-News Four tickets to the movie theater at Alamance Crossing Size L, PGA-Tour, light blue polo Two signed copies of The Virus Chronicles Perfume/lotion box from Talbots Shellac service at Exquisite Nails $15 gift certificate to Graham Sporting Goods Blue ZENZII necklace Oil change from Mr. Tire Watch, jewelry, votive And more!

Our address: 2229 Broadview Drive, Burlington, NC 27217

Our students, feeling accomplished after reading and analyzing the entire U.S. Constitution. We are looking forward to seeing you! 8th Grade at Broadview Middle School


Shout Out from Western High NJROTC Rod Butler, Master Chief, USN (Ret.)

North Carolina NJROTC Brain Brawl Championship On Saturday, 20 February 2016 the Western Alamance High School NJROTC Academic Team competed in the NJROTC North Carolina Academic Brain Brawl Championship held at West Lincoln High School. Led by Team Captain Cadet Yuuki Butler, team members Cadet Blake Cole, and Cadet Jonathan Solorzano won third place overall and were awarded a trophy out of 22 teams competing!

The competition is set up similar to Jeopardy. The cadets are given categories to choose from and then they receive a random question relating to the category. The first team to buzz in answers the question. If the team does not answer correctly, the team will lose points and another team is allowed to buzz in and answer the question. The cadets started out strong in the opening round and stayed this way throughout the second round, the semi-finals and into the championship round.

The WAHS NJROTC proved their mental strength, skills, and determination at the NJROTC North Carolina Brain Brawl Championship. The cadets are very proud to have won third place in this highly competitive event and are hoping to do even better next year. Congratulations to a job Well Done!


Shout Out from Smith Elementary Lindy Isley, Teacher/Librarian

The Seabees of Smith are continuing their quest to go global this year! The teachers were challenged to complete 4 modules towards that end. The third module involves having a Skype session with someone. The specialty teachers and a few members of the support staff decided to compare the specialty classes of Smith School with the specialty classes in Sweden!

ESL teacher Sheila Hedgecock has a friend, Ola Gustafsson, who is a 4th grade teacher in a small elementary school in Sweden. The teachers at Smith prepared questions for the Swedish children and the Seabee students were able to ask the questions during the Skype session.


Also during the session, Coach David Vaughn led the fourth graders from Mrs. Macomson’s class in a cardiac version of the Whip/Nae Nae so the Swedish children could observe a PE class in action!

We found some similarities and differences between the Seabees and the Swedish students.

Mrs. Macomson’s students went back to their classroom and recorded those findings on a Venn diagram.

The students from both countries are interested in another Skype session in the future or perhaps a chance to become pen pals.

This global thing just might catch on!


Shout Out from Southern High FFA Nick Anders, Advisor

Get your tickets in advance and come to Southern High on Friday, March 4th at 6 pm to enjoy an evening of bluegrass music by 2 well-known groups: SIDELINE and the Steve Martin Band.

In addition, enjoy music from Southern High FFA students who really know how to pick and play bluegrass!

They are all exceptionally talented—come out and enjoy a great show!

Students performing will be:

Hannah Maness - fiddle Nathan Aldridge - banjo Alex Cheek – bass/singer Will Kirkpatrick – banjo Prescott Kirkpatrick - guitar Cassie Smith – guitar/singer Katlyn Sawyer – mandolin Sam Fortner - banjo Will “Dub” Causey - guitar Chandler Woods – guitar Don’t miss this!

Pictured at left: Alex Cheek, Prescott and Will Kirkpatrick practicing


Shout Out from Graham Middle Joy Rust, Choral Director This has been a busy week for Graham Middle School Falcon Chorus! We were invited to sing at the Rotary District 7690 (Area 3) Birthday Celebration Luncheon on Tuesday, February 23 at the Ramada Inn. Select students from the advanced choruses represented GMS to a full room of Rotarians from five


Alamance County Rotary Clubs.

Alamance-Burlington Board of Education member Jackie Cole was one of the dignitaries at the Rotary event and she took the photo above while our students were performing. We were proud to represent the Graham Rotary Club! On Thursday a group of 40 Graham Middle School STEAM students and GMS teachers traveled to see The Lion King at DPAC. Students were entertained and enlightened to an amazing production that did not fail to impress! Hakuna Matata!


Shout Out from South Graham Elementary Amanda Almodovar

Shout Out to South Graham Community Garden- Phase 2.

A huge thanks go to South Graham staff, parents and community partners for commitment to the next phase of our project which will lead up to our groundbreaking event to take place on Earth Day 2016! Special thanks to our Data Manager Liz Eckman for taking on after hours commitments to inform and engage stakeholders in moving forward. Way to go! Stay tuned and see the empty courtyard be transformed!


Shout Out to ABSS Secondary Scientists Melaine Rickard, Western Middle

All 7 ABSS middle schools participated in the regional Science Olympiad Tournament in Greensboro on Saturday, February 20, 2016. They competed against a total of 24 teams from Alamance, Caswell, Guilford, Orange, Person, Randolph, and Rockingham counties. Each of ABSS’s middle schools won medals, and

Woodlawn placed 3rd overall. Woodlawn will advance to the State tournament in Raleigh in April.

Congratulations to all of our middle school teams!


At the high school level, Western High competed in the Greensboro Regional tournament as well. They faced 18 other teams from surrounding counties. The earned 6 first, second, or third place medals and placed 5th overall. Way to go!

In addition:

Williams High will compete in the Durham regional tournament in March. Best of luck, Bulldogs!


Shout Out from CTEC Tiffanie King, Culinary Arts Instructor

Recently the CTEC Culinary Arts program received a $1,200.00 grant from the Foods 4 Kids Backpack Program through the Elon Community Church UCC to expand their pantry to include Cummings High School. Advanced Culinary Arts students Jenaya Hammond and Rebecka Sonhthila began this mission as a way to help fellow CHS students. Each week they prepare food bags to leave in student services for students to pick up who may not have food at home. This is the first high school backpack program in our district! Great job ladies!!!


Shout Out from Woodlawn Middle Rachel Polmanteer, Assistant Coach

Over the holidays the Woodlawn girl's’ basketball team and student support staff sponsored an Army unit out of Fort Bragg that was serving in Afghanistan. The girls were able to rally the whole Woodlawn community and send over ten boxes full of items for this brave group of men and women. Fortunately they have returned safely and yesterday the captain of the unit, Jason Porter, was able to come thank the girls in person. The girls were very excited to meet him and asked all sorts of questions. I am so proud of our girls for all of their hard work! Pictured is our team with Mr. Porter.

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