Friday, August 25, 2017
Vol. 77, No. 34
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New camp in Levittown focuses on STEAM
CRIME STOPPERS SIGNS
Legislators Rose Walker and Laura Schaefer recently joined with the Bethpage Central Park Kiwanis to provide and distribute Crime Stoppers Drug Awareness Signs at various locations in the Bethpage community. Pictured are Legislators Walker and Schaefer, along with Bethpage Superintendent of Schools Terence Clark and members of the Bethpage Central Park Kiwanis.
Eclipse party at local library BY GARY SIMEONE
It was quite a scene at the East Meadow Library on Monday afternoon with over 300 people decked out in their solar viewing glasses to view the most widely anticipated natural phenomenon in ninety nine years. People of all ages gathered to witness the partial solar eclipse of the sun which took place between the hours of 2 and 4 p.m. People in other areas of the country who were in the direct path of the eclipse were able to bear witness to complete
totality where the moon completely covered the sun. “It has been so crowded that we were only able to give out one pair of glasses per family,” said Jude Schanzer, Director of Public Relations and Programming at the Library. “People are coming here from all across the Island to witness the eclipse.” The Library had multiple programs for people beginning at 10 p.m. and ending at 2 p.m. where people than set up folding chairs and blankets on the front lawn to see one of nature’s most awe-in-
spiring sights. “It’s great, unbelievable. I’ve never seen anything like it,” said eight year old, Eric Morales of Levittown, who came to the Library with his grandmother and brother and sister. Michelle Angel, grandmother of the three children, said that the kids had been looking forward to the big event and had been researching information online about it. “They’d been talking about this for awhile and now that the See page 20
It was an exciting couple of weeks for hundreds of kids at the newly opened Camp Invention at the Wisdom Lane Middle School in Levittown. The camp which ran from July 31st to August 11th, is a nationally recognized, non-profit summer enrichment program that catered to Levittown Students entering 3rd, 4th and 5th grades in the 2017-18 school years. Camp Invention also has locations in Wantagh and Merrick. The camp had seven stations set up for kids to participate in activities in classrooms throughout the school. One station included an outdoor area where they engaged in scientific team building type games. Siobhan Schneider, a 4th Grade Teacher in the School district and Camp Director at the Levittown site, said that the camp is a two week half day program where the kids participate in three different activities the first week and three unique activities in the second week. “There are four different academic programs and two outdoor games that the campers participate in,” said Schneider. “These programs align with the Science curriculum that students will be learning as they enter the third through fifth grade level.” The four programs inside the school include ‘Duct Tape Billionaire,’ where kids can start up their own accessory business, ‘Mission Space Makers,’ which lets kids locate and prepare a new planet for human habitation, ‘Have A Blast,’ where they fling, fly and float through high-energy air battles and ‘Operation Keep Out’ where they can create all sorts of neat inventions. The outdoor arena helps kids with their team building skills as they work together creating innovative water games and participating in small space puzzles where their creative thinking and problem solving skills come into play. “These activities help them to engage in creative thinking, apply principles of engineering, take apart non-working machines and devices to investigate their inner operations and work together to spark their interest in Science and Space,” said Schneider. See page 20
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