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Rohit Agrawal, a senior at Wayzata High School, was selected as the National Winner of the 2010-11 Siemens Award for Advanced Placement.
The Siemens Foundation selects only two winners from across the country for this award and Agrawal was selected based on his exceptional performance on the AP exams in math and science. With the honor, Agrawal will also receive a $5,000 award.
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The Wayzata Education Foundation today announced that four curriculum-based projects, in the areas of special education and literacy, were selected as part of its 2011 ‘From Excellent to Exceptional’ grant program.
This year, WEF considered 10 projects and selected four that will extend the regular curriculum in collaborative and innovative ways. The selected projects will receive more than $8,000 in grants as part of nearly $18,000 in total funding for 2011 programming. Additional funding was facilitated by WPSEF through the Wayzata School DiThe Wayzata Education Foundation has unveiled the recipients of its 2011 ‘From Excellent to Exceptional’ grant program, focusing on four curriculum-based projects in special education and literacy.
Out of the 10 projects evaluated this year, the foundation has chosen four initiatives that promise to expand the standard curriculum through collaborative and innovative approaches. These selected projects will collectively receive over $8,000 in grants, contributing to the total 2011 programming funding of nearly $18,000. The Wayzata School District played a pivotal role in facilitating additional funding for these projects. Here are the distinguished recipients for 2011:strict. Following are the 2011 recipients:
“We believe all students in the Wayzata Public Schools are exceptional, and we are pleased to fund these worthwhile and curriculum-based programs that would otherwise not be available,” Jenny DeWall, WPSEF board co-chair.
Since 2007, WPSEF’s ‘From Excellent to Exceptional’ Grant program has provided more than $95,000 to projects in the Wayzata Public Schools. Prior grants recipients include:
“The programs funded this year and in previous years would not be possible without the generosity of past and current WPSEF donors, and we wish to express our sincere appreciation for this support,” said Michael Hagerty, WPSEF board co-chair.
About The Wayzata Public Schools Education Foundation
The Wayzata Education Foundation was formed in June 2003 by a group of concerned parents and community leaders who wanted to ensure academic excellence across the district despite unreliable state and federal funding for public schools. The Foundation’s sole focus is to maintain and sustain the high quality of education in the Wayzata Public Schools. WEF is a fund of the Minnesota Community Foundation. For more information, visit www.wpsef.org.
A Young Scientist Roundtable will be held Monday, March 7, 2011, at 7 p.m. at Central Middle School. Dr. John Delaney and Jerome M. Paros will present “Wiring an Interactive Ocean. Delaney is a professor of oceanography at the University of Washington and is also the director and principal investigator for the regional scale nodes program. Paros is an endowed chair in sensor networks as the University of Washington.
The oceans make our planet livable, yet they are largely unexplored and poorly understood. Delaney is an advocate of next-generation ocean science, which is made possible through the distribution of robot-sensor networks in the oceanic environment. These networks enable real-time, interactive research on the natural phenomena operating throughout the world’s oceans. Delaney will discuss his work at the University of Washington as principal investigator and director of the regional scale nodes program, which is constructing an innovative, cabled network of instruments in the northeast Pacific Ocean. This event is a rare opportunity to meet an oceanographer celebrated for working with cutting edge technology to understand the watery frontiers that surround us.
A Teen Roundtable will be held from 8:10 to 8:40 p.m. where students will have the opportunity to ask in-depth questions.
The Young Scientist Roundtable is free for students in grades K – 12 and their families and no registration is required.
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Due to the expected snowfall and inclement weather predicted for overnight and throughout the day on Saturday, all activities scheduled to be held in a Wayzata Public Schools facility, including the Central Middle School Ice Arena and Dome Complex, will be canceled for Saturday, December 11.
All buildings will be closed and there will be no activities, events or games. Canceled activities include ACT testing and the community wrestling tournament scheduled at Wayzata High School and community youth basketball.
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Central Middle School is closed today, Friday, December 10, due to a broken water main. All other district schools are open today and operating with their regular schedule. Staff who work in Central Middle School should report to the building for work today.
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At its November 8 meeting, the school board of Wayzata Public Schools approved a boundary adjustment for the Kimberly Lane attendance area and moved three designated areas to the Greenwood attendance area effective immediately.
The boundary adjustment affects less than 10 students and they have been grandfathered into the Kimberly Lane attendance area. The changes were made due to future housing developments planned in these areas.
Current and projected resident enrollment at Kimberly Lane created the need to make a boundary adjustment for the current and future years. Although resident enrollment growth within the current Kimberly Lane attendance area has been higher than projected, total enrollment within Greenwood’s attendance area has been slightly lower than projected. This shift should help to stabilize enrollments at both Kimberly Lane and Greenwood.
The first census area that was moved includes current and future residences in the city of Plymouth, north of the current Plymouth Creek attendance area, extending north to the city of Maple Grove. Greenwood’s existing eastern boundary will be extended east from Lawndale Lane North to Vicksburg Lane North. It was recommended that the three current elementary students who are affected by this adjustment be given the option to continue their attendance at Kimberly Lane for the remainder of their elementary years.
The second census area that was moved includes approximately 45 future residences in a small census area in the city of Maple Grove. This area is contiguous to the current Greenwood attendance boundary. Greenwood’s northern attendance boundary has been extended north of County Road 47 to 63rd Avenue North. Greenwood’s eastern attendance boundary has been extended east of County Road 101 to Vagabond Lane North. At this time, there are no students currently residing in this area.
The third census area that was moved includes approximately 63 current and future residences in a small census area in the city of Maple Grove. This area is contiguous to the current Greenwood attendance boundary. Greenwood’s northern attendance boundary has been extended north into the city of Maple Grove to 62nd Place North on both Queensland Lane North and Peony Lane North. It also includes all of Olive Lane North. Greenwood’s northern attendance boundary has been extended to Fieldstone Boulevard Lane on Merrimac Lane North. The eastern boundary for this attendance area is now Lawndale Lane North. The western boundary for this attendance area is now Queensland Lane North. One student who is affected by this adjustment will be given the option to continue attendance at Kimberly Lane for the remainder of his elementary years.
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The composting program that began at West Middle School four years ago has taken hold at Wayzata High School this year and students there have significantly reduced the amount of land-fill-bound garbage produced during lunch.
Prior to the composting program, custodial staff regularly collected 84 bags of garbage per school day from the cafeteria. This has been reduced to 10 bags of garbage per day with the start of the composting program.
Rene Maas, a technician with the district’s Culinary Express department, said staff members were surprised by the amount of garbage the program reduced and are continuing to find replacement products that are compostable. Currently, compostable items used by the Culinary Express department for lunch items include all plates, utensils, paper cups, napkins, paper bowls for sandwiches and milk cartons. The department is seeking replacement products for fruit cups, chip bags, fruit drinks and other plastic packaging.
The switch from garbage to composting has brought new challenges though that custodial staff is addressing. The school now uses 25 containers for compost bags, which are filled rapidly. WHS Head Custodian Kirk DeCamp, said the district is looking into a third pick-up per week for the compost containers in order to keep up with the program.
Parent volunteers and student council representatives are helping students during lunch times to determine which items on their trays are compostable. Student council senior class president Drew Donlin, said the amount of garbage reduced by composting was surprising just in the first week of the program. He said student council members will volunteer at lunch time near composting stations for the first month of this program until the student body has a better grip on what materials can be composted.
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From Wayzata Public Schools:
This summer, Wayzata Public School teachers are heading back to school to work in several professional development programs to improve classroom instruction skills.
The district is holding two major professional development training sessions this summer. The first one, the Summer Assessment Conference, was held June 9 and 10 at Central Middle School and included classroom instruction and break-out sessions. A total of 460 teachers attended this event.
The second training session is planned August 11 and 13 and is the Summer Technology Institute at Wayzata High School. Currently, there are 360 teachers registered for this event that includes 39 breakout sessions during the three mornings and classroom sessions each day.
A district Professional Development Day has also been planned for Sept. 1 during the district’s workshop week and includes training on the district’s new curriculum and instruction Web site, technology training and more. Many of the district’s teachers are also participating during the summer in other training opportunities like writing common assessments and CGI math training. In addition to these, more than 500 staff members have registered for 25 summer book groups.
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Three West Middle School students placed this year as a team in the Minnesota History Day Competition.
Elise Olsen, Haley Larsen and Sophie Leininger, all seventh-grade students, earned third place in the state competition.
Leininger’s project is an individual documentary on Bob Dylan “The Reluctant Voice of a Generation” and she is an alternate for the national competition.
Olsen’s and Larsen’s project is a group documentary on Betty Crocker: “Aiding American Women” and the two will be competing in the national History Day event.
History Day is a co-curricular program that encourages young people to explore a historical subject related to an annual theme. The 2009 theme is “The Individual in History: Actions and Legacies.”
Students make history come alive as their research leads to imaginative exhibits, original performances, informative documentaries and historical research papers.
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Members of the East Middle School sixth-grade WordMasters Team recently earned second place in the nation in the competition.
The EMS sixth-grade WordMasters team members are: Sweta Bhoopatiraju, Hannah Slovut, Soniya Coutinho, Haley McNiff, Ian Masica, Shivonne McCarthy, Kelly Flugaur-Leavitt, Kaylyn Billmeyer, Joram Zaragoza, Alicia Wong, Emily Briggs and Samantha Lee. The team is coached by Kathy Simson.
WordMasters is a national competition for students in middle school and encourages growth in vocabulary and verbal reasoning. More than 4,200 school teams from 50 states participated last year. The competition addresses higher-level word-comprehension and logical abilities and helps students learn to think both analytically and metaphorically.
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