Friday Highlights - December 7, 2018

December is:

Universal Human Rights Month

Saturday, December 8 - ACT Test

Monday, December 10 -  Hanukkah Ends at Sunset, Superintendent's Citation Program

Tuesday, December 11 - LR PTA Council Meeting (Parkview High School, 11:30AM), LREA Rep. Council Meeting 5PM

Thursday, December 13 - Community Advisory Board Meeting 5:30PM

Friday, December 14 -  Semester Exams

Monday, December 17 - Semester Exams

Tuesday, December 18 - LREA Executive Board Meeting 5PM, Semester Exams

Wednesday, December 19 - End of 2nd Quarter (42 Days), Semester Exams

**Winter Vacation - December 20 - January 1**

Tuesday, January 2 - Record/Work Day - Students Out - Offices Open

Mann Middle T.S.A. Club Compete in UA-Little Rock VEX Robotics Tournament

This past weekend several students in the Mann Middle School Technology Student Association (T.S.A.) Club and Engineering Technology Education course participated and competed in the UA-Little Rock VEX Robotics Tournament. They had to use problem-solving skills, computer science/coding, documentation, and collaborate with other students/schools in order to succeed. The Engineering/Robotics students won several awards -

Tournament Champion (Middle School Division): Winner of the Middle School (6-9th grade) Division Tournament Game play
Tournament Champion (High School Division): Winner of the High School (8-12th grade) Division Tournament Game play
Excellence Award (Middle School Division): The Excellence Award is the highest award presented in the VEX Robotics Competition. This award is presented to a team that exemplifies overall excellence in building a high quality VEX robotics program. This team is a strong contender in numerous award categories. Excellence winners must have a highly detailed Engineering Notebook.
Key criteria:
• Design Award ranking
• Tournament Qualification Matches ranking
• Robot Skills Challenge ranking
• Other Judged Award rankings
• High quality VEX robotics program

2nd Place Design Award: The Design Award is presented to a team that demonstrates an organized and professional approach to the design process, project and time management and team organization. Only teams that submit Engineering Notebooks are eligible for the Design Award
3rd Place Judges Award: is presented to a team that the Judges determine is deserving of special recognition. Judges consider a number of possible criteria for this award, such as team displays of special attributes, exemplary effort and perseverance at the event, or team accomplishments or endeavors throughout the event that may not fit under existing awards, but are nonetheless deserving of special recognition.
Congrats to the following team members:

Emily Rey, Lucy Triplett -7th Grade
Jared Alexander, Joshua Rojas, Sarah Starnes, Ken Starnes, Gustavo Andrade - 8th Grade

Books 4 Kids to Benefit Dodd Elementary Students

Philander Smith Basketball Team sorted books at Goodwill as part of Books 4 Kids! The team sorted 1,370 books to benefit Dodd Elementary students—this means 1,370 books to be given to our students!!

Winners of Jefferson Elementary Spelling Bee

Jefferson Elementary is proud to announce their 2018-2019 Spelling Bee winners!  3rd place is Elizabeth Dyer, 2nd place is Eleanor Tilbury and 1st place is Henry Littlejohn.  Henry will go on to represent Jefferson Elementary in the District Spelling Bee.

Congrats to Parkview's JAG Team for Placing 1st at Nationals in D.C.!

Kameryn Baker, Aumri Duncan, and Jose Santos placed first in the Project Based Learning (PBL) Showcase at the Arkansas Jobs for Arkansas Graduates (JAG) Student Leadership Competition in Little Rock in October and as result, they had the opportunity to represent Arkansas at the JAG National Student Leadership Academy and Competition in Washington, DC in November. The team placed first again in DC at JAG Nationals with their project, “Students Against Violence”. Congratulations JAG Team!

LRSD Stephens Elementary Gift-Giving Tree Featured on KARK Channel 4!

This year students from Stephens Elementary made ornaments with a wish-list of their top 3 books instead of toys. Now, anyone can stop by the school, pick an ornament or two from the tree, and then help promote literacy by buying and donating one of the listed books. Students are off for a couple weeks during the holiday season and they can cozy up with their favorite book and it promotes reading. The school will accept books for the students until Dec. 19.