Friday, January 18, 2019
Vol. 79, No. 3
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SERVING PLAINVIEW, HICKSVILLE, AND LEVITTOWN
HULA HOOP STARS
Science scrimmage readies students for competition BY GARY SIMEONE
Northside Elementary School students performed their hula hoop routine during the National Circus Project’s show in December. See page 12
Lee Road lands new principal
Jami Anspach The Levittown Public Schools is pleased to announce
that Jami Anspach, formerly the district assistant director of elementary educ Jami Anspach ation, has been appointed as the new interim principal of Lee Road Elementary School. Anspach fills the principal position previously held by Anthony Goss, who retired at the end of December. She has a long career history with the Levittown Public Schools, beginning as a teacher for 15 years at East Broadway Elementary School. This followed with new roles as assistant principal of Gardiners Avenue School, Northside Elementary School and East
Broadway Elementary School throughout the years, before becoming the district assistant director of elementary education. As a Levittown native, Anspach attended Summit Lane Elementary School and Wisdom Lane Middle School before graduating from Division Avenue High School. She holds a bachelor’s degree in elementary education (preK-6) from SUNY Cortland, a master’s degree in special education (K-12) from Adelphi University, and advanced certification in education administration from LIU Post.
There were a lot of innovative contraptions inside the Jonas E. Salk Middle School gymnasium on Wednesday, January 9th. The contraptions were being put together by a large group of 7th-8th grade students from Salk and Wisdom Lane Middle School who were preparing themselves for the upcoming Science Olympiad Regional competition next month. “Today is kind of like a scrimmage to help both schools improve on their projects and ready themselves for the Western Long Island Division B Science Olympiad Regional competition, which takes place on February 9th,” said Paul Zaratin, Science Olympiad adviser. “In that competition, 43 middle school teams throughout Nassau County will participate in the event in hopes of qualifying for state competition, as they both did last year.” Some of the projects put together by students included the battery buggy, boomilever, elastic launch glider, mystery architecture and roller coaster. The projects were hands-on activities where students gathered the necessary supplies to build and construct Sydney Packer, a 7th grader from Salk, said that it took her and her team a lot of manpower to find the supplies and build their mystery architecture project. “We needed to gather a lot of straws and tape to build a tunnel that would support 1,000 grams of weight,” said Packer. “We taped three different sections of straw together in different positions to design a flat top for the tunnel so it would hold upright.” She said that her team ended up winning second place for the day for their innovative architectural design. Joe Kobrin, a 7th grader at the school, said that his team built a boomilever tower that would be lightweight in design but capable of holding a lot of weight. “We wanted to build a structure that doesn’t weigh a lot but at the same time holds a lot of weight on top of it,” said Kobrin. “The purpose of our design was to see if we could get the highest possible structural efficiency.” One of his teammates, Dylan Labonte, said that materials for the project included a triangle on a wall and a stick hooked through a bucket on one end that could be filled with sand. “We kept testing to see how much the boomilever was able to handle before it breaks,” said Labonte. Other projects included a battery buggy, where teams constructed a vehicle that uses electrical energy as its sole means of propulsion and an elastic launch glider where teams designed, constructed, and tested the gliders to achieve the maximum time aloft. The Science Olympiad Regional competition will take place at Wisdom Lane on Saturday February, 9th.
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