Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 135, Number 45, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 7 November 2013 — Page 3

EDUCATION BRIEF

Moore is a member of Alpha Delta Pi Sorority at Ashland University ASHLAND, Ohio Brooklyn Moore of Nappanee is a member of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority at Ashland University. Moore is majoring in marketing. She is the daughter of John and Kimberly Moore of Nappanee. Moore is a 2012 graduate of North Wood High School. The purpose of Alpha Delta Pi is to promote high levels of scholarship, service and sisterhood while living up to the ideals of the founders and developing strong personal character. Alpha Delta Pi visits the Ronald McDonald House in Cleveland weekly and was previously named Ronald McDonald House's House Hero. It holds a 5k and fun walk in the fall and a silent auction in the spring to support Ronald McDonald House Charities. It raises more than $13,000 in proceeds while also committing more than 15,000 hours of community service every year. Membership in Alpha Delta Pi is open by invitation to female students who have a 2.8 high school GPA or a 2.6 college GPA. Funding for safer schools Wa-Nee included in state’s security grants funding cycle

INDIANAPOLIS Wa-Nee Community Schools will receive $50,000 in state money to help pay for school security equipment and to employ a school resource officer. The announcement was made Friday in Indianapolis, as the Gov. Mike Pence, surrounded by students and staff at Cedar Elementary School in Avon, announced more than nine million dollars in grant funding would go to local schools and school corporations through the Secured School Safety Grant Program. The Indiana Secured School Safety Board approved the grants. "The safety of the students, teachers, and administrators in our schools is of the utmost importance to the people of Indiana, and I count it a privilege to distribute these resources to schools across our state,"

Students pitching in to help communities

NAPPANEE -- Students and staff from The Crossing High School group of schools in northern Indiana performed nearly 7,000 hours of service., to their communities in the 2012-13 academic year. Both schools, in Nappanee and Goshen, want to thank Elkhart County for its continued support by serving them. Crossing students are available to help with unskilled labor projects including indoor and outdoor cleaning and painting, leaf and snow removal, light demolition, clearing downed trees and vacant lots and many other trainable tasks. Over the past few years, they have served Habitat for Humanity, churches, food banks, thrift shops, munici-

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Pence said. "These grants will allow our public schools and school corporations to add resources that will help secure our schools so they can focus on educating our students." The money is a matching grant, meaning the school corporation has to contribute an equal amount of funds to pay for the security tion. Bremen Public Schools received $50,000 for school security equipment.

palities, schools and other organizations. They are currently looking to add more organizations to that list, especially those who can offer a reoccurring partnership. Individuals who have a project that could use the assistance or know someone who could use service please contact Jesse Bohannon at (574) 220-8809 or [email protected]."

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Advance News photo by Amy Wenger Members of Ann Sauceda’s fifth grade class cuddle and chat with their spirited little honorary classmates. Shown, from left is Christopher Weldy, Logan Mast, Reese Barhydt, and Rebekah Wenger.

Rats join class to teach nutrition

By Amy Wenger Advance Correspondent WAKARUSA Over the past few weeks, Ann Sauceda's students at Wakarusa Elementary happily welcomed two additional classmates. Like many typical fifth graders, the little ladies were lively, playful, and vibrant. But there were a few distinguishing characteristics, such as the fact that they spent most of their time in a cage, they were covered in snow white fluff and they scurried about on four legs. The newcomers were a pair of white rats, who joined the students as part of a learning adventure that has become something of an annual tradition for the fifth grade. While all of the teachers have participated in this similar course session on some level over the years, Sauceda's has carried on the longest, oyer the duration of 16 years. The project ties in with an extended study of nutrition and its various elements, such as stressing the importance of particular food components and productive eating habits, and how everything humans consume impacts one's health. The children are given a fair measure of responsibility in taking care of the lovable critters, giving them names and interacting with them daily. They also offer different types of food and drink to each individual rat, taking

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being conducted at the Indianapolis Marriott Hotel. Maugel has led North Wood High School's faculty and students for the past eight years, while Thompson's tenure at Woodview Elementary spans 13 years. "What a great honor for Wa-Nee," said Superintendent Joe Sabo during the revelation of Maugel and Thompson's esteemed selection. "I'm sure they'd be the first to thank their students, staff and parents for the recognition of the progress that

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measurements and recording data as to how they develop and the way their growth patterns change. The duo became known as Paris and Sadie, and they enlightened and entertained Sauceda's students for approximately six weeks. The scholars were very eager to share details about the lessons they witnessed in the rats as the weeks passedElla Ramer said, "We wanted to see how they would grow when we would feed them different things." Alea Minnich noted that Sadie was generally given sugar water, while Paris drank milk. The result was that Paris grew a little larger, forming greater muscle mass and stronger bones. And that wasn't the only noticeable observation, according to Keegan Silveus. "Sadie had sugar water, so it doesn't havemuch protein, for energy,"i Silveus said "Sadie was kind of sleepy and Paris was running around a lot," Ryan Blosser added. Eventually, the experiment reached its conclusion, with the class bidding a bittersweet farewell to their furry friends. The rats were given new places of residence on Friday, Nov. 1, when they went home with two eager new owners. Zachary Gonzalez is now the caretaker of Paris and Nicholas Jones is looking after Sadie.

they've been able to enact within their schools." In other matters discussed during Sabo's report, he issued a statement of well wishes toward North Wood High School's storied, award-winning Red Regiment troupe, as they make final preparations for their weekend journey to Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis to compete in the Class "C" state finals. This group of performers is led by Eric Criss and Maureen Gray. "This band is excellent, and they've been working

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The picture shows the carefully documented details and measurements taken for white rats Paris and Sadie during their time in Ann Sauceda's fifth grade classroom at Wakarusa Elementary. Observing the development of the rats was just one part of an extended study in nutrition, which the fifth grade classes discuss every year.

hard," Sabo said. "We're very happy for the band and they deserve our congratulations for all of their great success." Board members made rapid progress addressing the remaining agenda items, which included: • Approval of hiring Sue Richmond as a parttime Prime Time Assistant for Woodview Elementary, effective Oct. 28. a Acceptance of a resignation for Todd Wegmiller as the North Wood Middle School Eighth Grade Head Football Coach, effective at the conclusion of the 2013

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season. • Granting a leave of absence for Mindy Myers, Second Grade Teacher at Woodview Elementary, beginning approximately Nov. 11. • Receiving a donation of $6,000 from the Wa-Nee Waves Swim Team, to be utilized in defraying expenses of, maintenance for the North Wood High School pool. The next meeting of the Wa-tyee Community. Schools Board of Trustee is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. Monday, Nov. 11 at North Wood High School.