AL Students Compete at Bluffs Engineering Day
The 2010 Iowa PLTW Virtual Student Symposium was held at Lewis Central High School on Thursday, May 6, 2010. Click here for the complete story and student results.
Thomas Jefferson IT Club Competes in IT - Olympics
Thomas Jefferson IT Club students participated during the school year in an innovative program sponsored by Iowa State University. The IT club worked on game design and robotics and competed in the IT-Olympics April 23rd and 24th in Ames, Iowa at the Hilton Coliseum. The event included nearly 400 high school students from Iowa on 77 teams across three venues: cyber defense, robotics and game design. The Thomas Jefferson team competed in the game design venue that entailed designing an educational game using the Sciences, Technology, Engineering or Math (STEM) concept. For the Robotics venue, the team designed and programmed a Lego Mindstorms NXT robot that competed in a sumo competition where two autonomous robots try to push or flip the other outside of a circular ring. In addition to Game Design and Robotics, the team was required to perform a community service project. The students went to the Council Bluffs Boys and Girls Club for two evenings and taught young students PowerPoint animation concepts.
Pictured: Mrs. Denise Hoag, Kadin Wright, Dakota Church, JP Simon, Christian Pacheco, Jessie Morton and Tyler Morken.
Students Explore Australia
Edison and Walnut Grove students explored Australia though literature, food, art, and sports. Students at both schools have been participating in the Passport to Read year long library program.Each student has read books set in  countries and continents around the world. This month both school choose to "book" trips down under! Student ate Vegemite, Tim Tams, and Australian chocolate, made didgeridoos, created aboriginal dot art, and perfected their boomerang throwing. Both schools will soon be traveling to their final destinations in our final month of school. All 3rd through 5th grade students are welcome to participate! To learn more or see where we've been, visit our library wikispaces at www.edisonlibrary.wikispaces.com and www.walnutgrovelibrary.wikispaces.com
High School Students Place at Journalism Contests
Congratulations to the following AL students for placing in the University of Nebraska High School Media day.
Jessica Jerkovich - Best News Story, 1st Place
Emma Murray - Best Editorial - 2nd Place
Nicky Ervin - Best Cartoon, 3rd Place
Erin Kinen & Sabina Grenaderova - Best Ad, 3rd Place
Meredith Whye - Best Feature Story, 3rd Place
AL students also competed in the Creighton University byline awards. This competition was against schools in the Omaha Metro area public and private schools. The awards are given as: Byline, 1st runner up, 2nd runner up, 3rd runner up are as follows:
Best Writing: Erin Kinen, 2nd Runner Up: Online Inferno, February 2010
Best Feature Story: Meredith Whye, 3rd Runner Up: February 2010
Best News Story:
Erin Kinen, 1st Runner Up: School District Experiences Budget Cuts, January 2010 Erin Kinen & Emma Murray, 3rd Runner Up: Cameras Missing in Student Lot December 2009
Best Headline: Byline Award (TOP AWARD & and only award given in category for our class): Erin Kinen: Workers, Students Smoking on Campus, Security Cameras Missing in Student Lot, School District Experiences Budget Cuts
Best Photograph: Sabina Grenaderova, 1st Runner Up: Girl Playing Flute Photo, February 2010
Best Cartoon: Nicky Ervin, 2nd Runner Up: Public Displays, March 2010
Best Front Page Design: Erin Kinen, 3rd Runner Up, March 2010
Thomas Jefferson journalism department also had two winners at the UNO Journalism Conference on Thursday, April 22. Junior John Tran won second place in the A Division for an Editorial Cartoon and senior Brett Derrig won 3rd Place for a sports story in the A Division.
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Kirn Leadership Academy Receives Oustanding Volunteer Group Award
Members of the Kirn Leadership Academy received the Outstanding Volunteer Group Award at the Annual Bethany Heights Volunteer Tea on April 18, 2010. The students volunteer at Bethany Heights once a month, help with special activites, decorate Christmas trees, and provide Valentine and May Day Basket treats for the residents. Students are pictured below at the Volunteer Tea.
More than 600 Students Graduate as Class of 2010
The Class of 2010 celebrated many accomplishments during commencement ceremonies at the Mid-America Center on Sunday. Among the accomplishments is earning more than $3 million in scholarships!
Congratulations and best wishes to the Class of 2010!
Roosevelt Young Writers
Share Their Poetry
 
Students in Miss Knoke’s kindergarten classroom and Mrs. Matuszeski’s first grade classroom recently held a poetry reading for parents and families.
The first grade students went on a “listening walk” and learned how to look at typical everyday items through a poet’s eyes. Then they studied how authors get their ideas onto paper through poetry.
The kindergarten students modeled their own writing after studying poetry by various authors.
TJ's Cody Stites Among Top Ten at ICDC Competition
Cody Stites from Thomas Jefferson High School placed in the top 10 individuals at the International Career Development Conference held in Louisville, KY. The competition was held April 23-27. Cody competed in the Automotive Services Marketing event and received finalist medals for each of his role plays. He also received a medal for placing in the top 20 in his division. After the mini awards Cody went on to compete in the finals for his series event. In the Grand Award evening session he was presented his top 10 medallion. Approximately 13,000 students competed in the ICDC competition and Cody had approximately 300 students in his automotive event. Cody was the only person from Iowa to make it to the stage for recognition.
Nelson Foundation Honors Council Bluffs Teachers
Three Council Bluffs and two Lewis Central teachers were honored with the 2010 "Excellence in Teaching" Award from the H.H. "Red" and Ruth H. Nelson Family Foundation in collaboration with the Omaha Community Foundation. This year's honorees include Carter Lake Elementary reading and literacy strategist Jane Burgett, Thomas Jefferson business and marketing coop teacher Deb Goodman, and Kirn Middle School instrumental music instructor Jim Misner.
  
Jane Burgett Deb Goodman Jim Misner
Each honoree recevied a commemorative trophy, $250 in Jimmy John's gift certificates and a check for $5,000.
Past Council Bluffs Community School District Nelson Excellence in Teacher Award winners include:
2008: Al Hudek, Thomas Jefferson High School Talented and Gifted Teacher; Mary Reid, Lewis & Clark Elementary Preschool Teacher; Joan VonTersch-Crampton, Roosevelt Elementary Preschool Teacher
2009: Terry Hanzlik, Abraham Lincoln High School Band Director; JoAnn Tews, Walnut Grove Elementary Sixth Grade Teacher; Christy Boldt, Longfellow, Pusey and Washington Elementary Talented and Gifted Strategist; Barbara Schmid, Longfellow Elementary First Grade Teacher
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