We are so proud of our young people!!!!

We had a GREAT field trip to Trinity College and their science facilities. Thanks to the Manchester Foundation, which has helped us with the financing, and lovely people at Trinity College, we learned all kinds of information. If your students don't want to drink apple juice, they will tell you that some of the flavor comes from an insect.

We hope to put some of our pictures in the school news letter and share them with the students. Our students have asked a lot of questions about college and requirements, etc. Please let me know if there is some question we can help answer.

    I want to thank all the professors and college students for making this a great day and an unforgettable learning experience.

LOOK FOR THE SCIENCE SCRIMMAGE OCTOBER 30 and once a month after that!!!!

Starting on October 30, every month, your student and a family member (grandma, grandpa, aunt, brother, sster, cousin, etc.) will have the opportunity to be recognized for their ouwstanding SCIENCE TRIVIA knowledge.

On the last Friday of the month your students will have the opportunity to choose to work with a relatie to solve the SCIENCE TRIVIA questions of the month.

All papers MUST be retuned on MONDAY to be counted and MUST have the signature of the family member and student in order to be counted as participating. You may complete as much or as little as you want. Please put your answer sheet in the box inside Mrs. Schneider's door. Within the week, ou will know who the top winner (s) is (are). GOOD LUCK!!!!

I also am the advisor to the Illing Science Club. We usually meet Thursdays after school to dissect, learn science trivia, build things, compete in competitions, and go places. Our first field trip will be bird banding at the Hockanum River Linear Park on October 22 at 7: 30 a.m. and we will return to school about 10:00 a.m. Birds are most active in the morning. We are a part of the MAPPS project. The project is interested in identifying song birds in an urban setting. It is bird migration time and we will again capture, measure, and band songbirds in the spring when they return from their winter home. We've even caught a bird that flew from Costa Rica and back. We knew because we had the bird's band number and we could check it!