Announcements

__//** Alice Programming Course for 7th and 8th Graders Culminated **//__ The children have worked on their designs for animations.Nine children gave up 6 Monday and Friday afternoons until 5:oo to enhance their animations and submit them in a competition. PA Computer Fair Pennsylvania Middle School Computer Fair Competition Results **Congratulations to all of you!!!!** Nine students participated in the animation category at the PA Regional Computer Fair on March 5, 2012. They worked on their Alice Language programming skills during 9 classes and after school for 6 sessions. Some children did more work on it at home.

They were: Grade 8: Brett Fenstermacher and Nadia Schimony Grade 7: Casey O'Donnell, Brenna Sweeney, Mary Fuchs, Leah Sulyok, Matt Keeton, Chris DiMascio, and Michael Szewczak.

//__Three children won the first three places:__// First- Casey O'Donnell Second -Leah Sulyok Third- Brett Fenstermacher

Casey will compete at the State Level in May at Dickinson College.

__//** Trek for Tech **//__ What a SUCCESS!!! Over $11,700 was raised and more has been coming! Thank you to our winner of the iPod Touch, 4th generation, Mackenzie who worked so hard to raise over $600.00.

__//** Technology Committee News **//__ In the beginning of June 2011, we organized and assembled a group of parents and school community members to begin a Technology Committee. The group's focus is the maintenance and purchase of support equipment and software to ensure that 21st learning skills can be taught and integrated into the curriculum. Old and New members have joined together.

The current issues are the upgrade of the communication lines from the building and the improvement of some of the infrastructure. We have worked with our business manager to investigate communication options for a match for our campus. Members of the committee have been working, giving up family time, to replace some cables and switches in the lab and the library and will move onward to the classrooms. Next we will feel more comfortable using Cloud software and resources.