www.mycnews.com • Community News • September 5, 2012
Willow Brook Principal Named Among 30 Leaders in Their 30s Dr. Montize Aaron, principal of Willow Brook Elementary School, is among those being honored this year in the 30 Leaders in Their 30s Award program by North County Inc. The award recognizes North County leaders in their 30s who are making a significant positive impact on the North County community through their profession and/or community involvement. Aaron will be honored at a future North County Inc. reception. Aaron became principal of Willow Brook Elementary in 2008. In 2011, he was selected by the Missouri Association of Elementary School Principals (MAESP) as the Exemplary New Principal for the St. Louis suburban district. Aaron is president of MAESP’s St. Louis Suburban District. Prior to coming to Pattonville, Aaron was an assistant principal at Steger Sixth Grade Center/Computer School in the Webster Groves School District. He completed an elementary administrative internship, served as summer school principal and was a fifth-grade teacher in the Rockwood School District. Aaron earned a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Central Missouri State University and his master’s degree in educational leadership from Lindenwood University. He completed his doctorate degree in educational administration in 2012 from Maryville University.
Electronic Recycling and Household Goods Drive The city of Florissant will host a major electronics recycling and household goods collection event for Florissant residents. The recycling event will be held from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, September 15 in the rear parking lot of St. Ferdinand Park. The event will be held rain or shine. Residents will need to provide proof of residency by providing staff a current resident card or a Meridian Waste or utility bill and a driver’s license. Signs will be posted at park entrances to direct residents. Acceptable items to be collected are: computers and accessories, networking and telecommunications equipment, phones (home and cell), clocks, TVs, VCRs, DVD players, stereos, A/V equipment including cable and satellite boxes, home electronics and appliances in any condition. Non-electronic household item(s) in good condition will be accepted. Mers Goodwill will have heavy equipment and employees on hand to assist in the drop-off process. Residents may also request a receipt to be used for a tax deduction as a donation to 501C Mers Goodwill. This drive has been highly successful in the past. The mayor encourages all residents to participate. Recycling conserves our natural resources, saves money, creates jobs, eliminates waste in landfills and reduces harm to the environment. For more information, contact the Florissant Health Department at 314.839.7655.
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Be Cool…Join a Girl Scout Troop Attend a Girl Scout recruitment night with your daughter and form a Girl Scout Troop There’s no better time to join a Girl Scout troop than during recruitment night. Recruitment nights are an opportunity for girls to experience Girl Scout activities and for parents to be informed about what it takes to get their daughters involved. Girl Scouts is the premier leadership organization for girls ages 5-18 and is committed to building girls of courage, confidence and character. As a Girl Scout, girls will be able to participate in traditional activities like the Girl Scout cookie program and camping in addition to programs that build self-esteem and teach girls to live a healthy lifestyle. Our STEM programs introduce girls to
a variety of science, technology, engineering and mathematics activities that are designed to be fun in order to pique their interest in those fields. Recruitment nights take place through October throughout 18 districts that span from the St. Louis metropolitan area to Hannibal/Kirksville and Ste. Genevieve. For more information about where a recruitment night is taking place near you, please visit our website at www.girlscoutsem. org and click ‘Join.’ Recruitment nights are divided by districts. If you are unsure of what district you fall under, click the link that reads ‘find your district here’ on the Join page.
Biomedical Science Students Act as Crime Scene Investigators A supply closet marked with pretend yellow crime scene tape across its doorway became the focus for students in Bret Barron’s biomedical science class at Hazelwood Central High School. In the closet, Anna Garcia lay face down on the floor near an upended table. Blackon-yellow number tags marked a variety of clues scattered around the closet. Working in pairs wearing lab coats, latex gloves and safety goggles, students walked across the hall from Barron’s class to the closet. “This is so cool!” said freshman Chelsea Elliott, as she and classmate Devyn Torbert took their turn surveying the scene, armed Freshmen Devyn Torbert, in the white lab coat, and Chelsea Elliott react to a mock crime scene in a supply closet at Hazelwood Central High School. with notebooks and pencils. “Oh! I know why she died. There’s a pill nautics, biomedical sciences and other applied over here. She overdosed!” Torbert said. math and science arenas. HSD high school classFollowing instructions, students observed the es offered include introduction to engineering scene, took notes, made sketches of what they design or biomedical sciences. saw and processed the scene to solve the mysFor middle school students, there is the Gatetery. Barron reminded them to only step into the way to Technology (GTT) program. GTT’s focus closet if necessary and to take care where they is on showing, not telling, students how to use stepped, otherwise they could contaminate the engineering to solve everyday problems. Middle scene even though Garcia was a mannequin. school students can enroll in courses such as de“This is the introductory unit of the class in sign and modeling, automation and robotics and biomedical science,” Barron said. “Anna Gar- flight and space. cia is an employee who suffered from diabetes, All three Hazelwood high schools are certisickle-cell anemia, kidney stones and she died a fied PLTW schools and offer engineering and mystery death. What the students will learn later biomedical science classes under the PLTW umduring the final autopsy is that Anna Garcia died brella. In addition, all six HSD middle schools are of natural causes.” certified PLTW schools and offer GTT classes. Barron’s biomedical science class is one compoStudents, parents and others who are interested nent of Project Lead the Way (PLTW), a dynam- in PLTW can learn more about it at the District’s ic high school and middle school program that Science, Technology, Engineering and Math gives students real-world learning and hands-on (STEM) Extravaganza, October 13 from 10 a.m. experiences in engineering, biomechanics, aero- to 2 p.m. at Hazelwood Central High School.
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