Highview Exploration Day Highview Middle School hosted Exploration Day in January to give students an opportunity to experience up to three elective classes based on their personal interests. Students chose from 35 classes including intuitive art, master chef, journaling, video editing, computer coding, ice fishing (pictured), snorkeling, engineering challenges, puzzle/escape room and more.
Exchange program brings Irondale senior to Japan Ethan Riley, a senior at Irondale High School, spent six months in Japan as an exchange student. He returned earlier this year with stories and real-life experiences of Japan to share with his classmates.
Hour of Code
Sunnyside Elementary School students participated in the Hour of Code in December. The Hour of Code is a global movement reaching students in 180 countries. The one-hour introduction to computer science is designed to demystify code and show that anybody can learn the basics of computer coding.
Making paper After reading books by Denise Fleming, an author who uses paper pulp screens to illustrate her books, Turtle Lake kindergartners enjoyed a class lesson in paper-making.
Ruby Waffensmith, Ted Coyle and Noah Johnson enjoyed seeing the connection between the author’s illustration process and making their own paper. Specialist Lisa Murray (pictured) invited 3M engineers to visit classes. Bob Follensbee of 3M visited several Island Lake and Turtle Lake classes throughout the school year to lead the paper-making lesson.
Ethan Riley says farewell to his host family in Gunma Prefecture, Japan.
LEGO League goes to State Island Lake’s LEGO League Team ATHENA (All That High Energy Nerd Action) organized an electronics recycling drive in January that collected 162 pounds of electronics. The team also advanced to the State Tournament, where they placed second for mechanical design and were among the top seven teams overall.
Team members pictured are Aubree Klein, Ella Nyholm, Caitlynne Springhorn, Claire O’Quinn, Anisha D’Souza and Ginny Gatto.
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