Yates STLs Support our Troops

P. L. Dunbar STLs at Work in the School Community

Jessie Clark STLs and Election Day '04

Maxwell and Mary Todd STLs at the State Fair

Congratulations to all our students and STLP groups who participated in the regional showcase on November 11th at the University of Kentucky.  Several students and groups were selected to compete at the state level in March.  Check out the results on the FCPS STLP website.

Yates STLP's Troop Round Up! 

Yates STLs have been active in supporting our troops.  Rebecca Skaggs, STLP co-coordinator described this project as a first.  Rebecca wrote, "I wanted to send you a photo of us our first successful Troop Round Up. We allowed the STLP students to donate items to send overseas to our US Troops and were able to donate 301 items! Then we sent the challenge out to the rest of the school to beat us…well they did, but the best part was the school was able to accumulate 1,035 items!! So, the STLP students were just happy that we were able to gather so many useful items to send over to our deserving troops.  As if that was not great enough, we were able to donate the items in person to First Class Sergeant Bell, Heather Bell’s husband. We learned upon meeting him that he is soon to be shipped back out for a 2 year term of duty in Iraq. The students got to introduce themselves and ask him any questions they had. It was quite impressive and several students said it was nice to get to meet one of the people that would benefit from their hard work and donations."
 

P. L. Dunbar Students at Work in the School Community

P.L. Dunbar STLs (Brett, Jesse, Zack, Michael, David, Hesan, and Vishnu) along with their STLP sponsor, Jim Adams, assisted David Beaty, Technology Resource Teacher at Edythe J. Hayes Middle School, in installing the new computer equipment located at Edythe J. Hayes Middle School. The PLD students were very impressed with the technology at Edythe J. Hayes Middle School.  Mr. Beaty had this to say about the event, "Mr. Adams sent out a group of AWESOME STLP students to help get machines online. They set up machines, got them ready for imaging, and were all around a great group!"

These students are part of the larger STLP community service group at P. L. Dunbar who have assisted Beaumont Middle, Johnson Elementary, Garden Spring Elementary, and Stonewall Elementary schools this year. Plans have been made to assist Edythe J. Hayes Middle School and the YWCA later in the year.

Jessie Clark STLs get into the election business
 

The Jessie Clark STLs ran the November 1st election held at JCMS using the on-line voter site FCPS has created.  Members of the Morning News Team STLP hosted a Mock Election for Jessie Clark Middle School students. The week prior to voting the members of the team videotaped fellow students posing as the 5 candidates for President. Each morning, they aired one of the candidates on the morning news show. On November 1st, voting machines (computers) had been set up in the library but some technical difficulties occurred just as the polls opened at 8:00. Paper ballots were used until the issues could be worked out. A schedule had been made up of when students were to be present in the library to act as "voting officials". There were 9 precincts set up and a voting official presided over each precinct asking voters to sign in, vote and then each voter received an official "I Voted" sticker. At 1:10 a special news show was aired to update the student body on the election. This show also included taped interviews with students about the importance of voting and their views about the candidates. The polls closed at 3:00 and votes were tallied. A special show aired at the end of the day telling students the election results at Jessie Clark.

The STLP at Jessie Clark is also creating a Character Education simulation that will serve as a companion to our Character Education emphasis at Jessie Clark. STLPs will share the program with the faculty in November and will offer it as a supplement available to everyone to begin using to teach more about the Character attributes.
 

Maxwell and Mary Todd STLs visit the State Fair

Students from Maxwell and Mary Todd Elementary Schools staffed the STLP Booth at the State Fair in August.  Here a few pictures of the Maxwell students from their exciting day!

For more information, contact Paula Whitmer, STLP Coordinator, or visit the FCPS STLP website.

Submitted by Rebecca Skaggs

Submitted by David Beaty and Jim Adams
 

Submitted by Shawna Baker and Janyl Humlong

Submitted by Cliff Tibbitts