• Tates Creek High School
• Breckinridge Elementary & Henry Clay High School
• Glendover Elementary

Tates Creek High School Basketball Goes High-Tech

The Tates Creek High School STLP students are attending Commodore basketball games...and bringing along a digital video camera. The students get free access to the game and even ride the team bus to some away games. During game play, the students shoot footage on 8 mm digital tapes. Afterwards, the video footage is transferred via a FireWire connection to a PC.

With the footage on a hard drive, the students can easily create a DVD for each game. This process includes breaking the game into manageable chapters, creating a menu system and ultimately burning a disc. The menus are all full motion and the resulting DVD is easy to navigate and looks quite professional.

Coach Covington uses these DVDs with his team in practice. With the games on DVD, storage is much easier, access to particular points of interest within the game much faster and, of course, there is never a need to rewind. Blank DVDs are cheaper than 8 mm digital tapes and much more useful to the team.

Submitted by Scot Gill, STLP Coordinator, Tates Creek High

Breckinridge & Henry Clay STLP Team Up!

Breckinridge Elementary School’s STLP group teamed up with Henry Clay to install memory on all classroom computers at Breckinridge. This was no small task!  The groups worked on over 50 computers during our time together.

The students thoroughly enjoyed working with the high school kids. In fact, they want them to attend every meeting now! A special thanks also goes to Henry Clay for donating the memory. The whole school appreciates it!

Glendover Students

The Glendover STLP Tech Squad has been keeping busy this year! On Monday afternoons, members of the squad visit classrooms to take care of the computers. Tech Squad members have been trained in properly cleaning the computers and their peripheral devices. This spring, Tech Squad members will be trained in adding memory, installing print cartridges, defragmenting and scanning hard drives. This has been a win-win situation at Glendover—the teachers are pleased to have their computers clean and running better, and the Tech Squad is pleased to provide this service.

For more information, contact Paula Whitmer, STLP Coordinator for Fayette County Public Schools, or visit the FCPS STLP website.

Submitted by Dianne Griffin, STLP Co-Coordinator, Glendover Elementary