The Carman-Ainsworth Middle School Robotics Team MO’ Peeps competed in the VEX World Championship from April 25-28, 2018 in Louisville, Kentucky. The best 184 middle school teams were invited to the World Championship from a starting pool of approximately 10,000 teams from around the world.

The C-AMS Robotics Team MO’ Peeps won the Excellence Award!

According to the VEX website, “The Excellence Award is the highest award presented in the VEX programs. The recipient of this award is a team that exemplifies overall excellence in building a high-quality robotics program. The Excellence Award is earned by an entire school or organization at Worlds, not just a single team.

This team excels in many areas and is a shining example of dedication, devotion, hard work and teamwork.”

The Mo’ Peeps road to the Excellence Award included:

• Must undergo an interview process
• Must submit an engineering notebook (NOTE: the engineering notebook must be comprehensive from the beginning of the season and must exemplify the building and engineering processes used by the team.)
• Must complete 2 STEM Projects

The C-A team entered the following for their projects:

• A Video (which the team wrote and performed) about the creation of a robot
  • A Critical Picture analysis
• Must Initiate Community Outreach – The MO’ Peeps assisted in the Haskell Community Center Water Project in Flint

Members of the team include: Lydia, Parker, Noah, Micah, Sierra, Faith, Jack, Arryonna, Emery, Chase, Haize, and Max.

The team is coached by Leanne Welch (Rankin Elementary Teacher), Amy Johnson (Rankin Elementary Teacher) and Dylan Elmer (MSU Student).

Carman-Ainsworth FRC (FIRST Robotics Competition®) Team 314 competed at the FIRST World Championship with 404 other teams at Cobo Hall in Detroit April 25 – 28, 2018. The teams in attendance represented 26 different US states, 2 Canadian provinces, the Netherlands, France, Chinese Taipei, Japan and Poland.

Team 314 Big MO qualified for a spot by earning enough points during their season in March to compete at the Michigan State Championship for FIRST Robotics earlier in April. Even though awards were not won at the World Festival, setting the bar for team history was obtained.  In their division of 67 teams they were overall ranked 9th after the qualification matches. While Alliance Selections was going on, they ended up being the 7th Alliance Captain. Big MO selected team 4678 Cyber Cavs from Breslau, Ontario, Canada, team 3667 Mecanum Knights from Port Huron, Michigan and team 5114 Titanium Tigers from Fenton, Michigan to join their alliance in the elimination rounds. Their alliance played well, but was ultimately eliminated by this season’s Michigan State Champion and their alliance in quarterfinals.

Throughout season, the team won multiple awards, learned new skills, and established many new partners in the community. The team won the Quality Award sponsored by Motorola Solutions Foundation and the Innovation in Control Award sponsored by Rockwell Automation, this season. The team’s safety captain also was recognized at multiple competitions as the Underwriter Laboratories Safety Star of the day. The team ended the season ranked 71st out of 508 teams in Michigan and surpassed the previous team record at the World Championship of ranking 12th in qualifications. The team also set a new high at the World Championship by being an alliance captain for the first time in its 20 year history.

For more information about the Carman-Ainsworth High School Robotics team 314 “Big MO”:

https://www.bigmo314.com/

If you would like to get involved or donate to this award winning team, contact the head mentor: Ellen M. Crain, Head Mentor \ CA High School Robotics Advisor, Carman-Ainsworth High School FRC Team 314 “Big MO”, 810-591-7525   Robotics Room, ellenc@bigmo314.com.

Welcome Back Carman-Ainsworth Cavaliers!

The 2017/2018 school year was another exciting year in our school district. We are very eager to continue to create and maintain high standards of academic and social success for all Carman-Ainsworth students. The 2018 graduating class of Carman-Ainsworth High School amassed nearly $4 million dollars in college scholarships and attained well over 600 college credits. The 2018 graduating class of Carman-Ainsworth Baker Career Academy earned a combined total of 131 college credits; graduating senior Paris Folsom alone completed a total of 55 credits! These are examples of students who have taken advantage of the outstanding college partnerships that we have in Carman-Ainsworth Community Schools. Our hope is that this year even more students will aspire to take advantage of gaining college credit while attending high school.

As we continue to improve upon our ability to deliver outstanding instruction, we are very fortunate to provide students with extra curricular activities that are exceptional. For example, the Carman-Ainsworth Middle School Robotics team MO’ Peeps was crowned World Champions and was the recipient of the Excellence Award at the VEX World Championships that were held in Louisville, Kentucky. The Carman-Ainsworth High School Robotics team BIG MO, received the Quality Award and the Innovation in Control Award at the FIRST World Championships, which was held in Detroit.

Moving forward, please keep in mind the two initiatives that began last year that will be available to our students for this upcoming school year:

• School-based Health Center at Carman-Ainsworth High School- Our partnership with the Regional Alliance for Healthy Schools (RAHS) at Michigan Medicine aligns with the district’s continued commitment to the health and well being of students and the community. The fully functioning health center provides valuable resources to our students and families that include, but are not limited to: Immunizations, Physical Exams, Sick Visits, Nutrition Counseling, Health and Fitness Education Programs & Groups, Confidential Mental Health Services and Psychotherapy, Vision Screening, Referrals for Community Resources.

You can find more information about the Regional Alliance for Healthy Schools at Michigan Medicine and RAHS-Carman-Ainsworth Health Center on the RAHS website at: http://umhs-rahs.org/ or by calling 810-591-5473.

• Free Breakfast and Lunch for all Carman-Ainsworth Students- Based on our current Free and Reduced Lunch data, Carman-Ainsworth Community Schools qualifies to participate in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP), a program designed to provide free breakfast and lunch to all students without the burden of collecting and processing free and reduced price meal applications. All students in Carman-Ainsworth, beginning with the 2017/2018 school year, received meals at no charge. Although students will receive meals at no charge, all families will be required to complete a Household Information Survey in order for us to fulfill our requirement and obligation for participation in the program. This is yet another opportunity for us to meet the needs of our families.

Expectations for 2018/2019 include a continuous effort in building and sustaining a district-wide culture of positive relationships that help foster environments that are safe, secure, respectful, caring, and most importantly conducive to helping each student meet and/or exceed their highest academic potential. This year we are working to advance and promote the following initiatives that are researched based and intended to meet the social and emotional needs of our students, they include:

• Culturally Proficient Instruction: Culturally Proficient Instruction is a way of teaching in which teachers engage in practices that provide equitable outcomes for all learners. Culturally Responsive Classrooms specifically acknowledge the presence of culturally diverse students and the need for these students to find relevant connections among themselves and with the subject matter and the tasks teachers ask them to perform.
• Restorative Practices: Restorative Practices are standards derived from the concept of Restorative Justice. These practices are designed to improve school environment, enhance learning, promote safety, inclusion, and respect as well as increase positive relationships in the school setting.
• SEED (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity): SEED is a peer-led professional development program that promotes change through self-reflection and interpersonal dialogue and builds capacity for more equitable curriculum, schools, workplaces, and communities.
• ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences):Adverse Childhood Experiences are events that can cause significant social-emotional, behavioral, and health problems. Information provided from ACEs Surveys will help us establish and provide academic and behavioral interventions for students impacted by ACEs.

I can assure you that our staff understands the commitment and effort that it takes to carry forward these strategies in an effort to impact each student personally in a positive yet meaningful way.

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The safety and security of our students is paramount in the success of the programs, services, and initiatives that we provide, participate, or institute within our district.  Please continue to partner with us to ensure that our safety protocols are adhered to on a daily basis.  As a reminder:

• Michigan law requires that all K-12 schools conduct at least three lockdown drills per school year. Schools are also required to provide a list of scheduled fire, tornado, and lockdown drills to their county emergency management coordinator no later thanSeptember 15of each school year.
• All of our instructional buildings have single point entry areas with surveillance cameras and buzz ringer/alert systems. Building doors are locked during school hours and those who enter or visit are directed to the single point entry areas.
• Our district has established outstanding partnerships with our local Police and First Responder Community. We are fortunate to have School Resource Officers on several of our campuses.

Carman-Ainsworth Community Schools has and will continue to invest in safety resources that provide additional layers of security district wide. Although we adhere to a high degree of safety requirements and standards, we constantly evaluate our current procedures in an effort to stay up-to-date with practices that enhance the safety and security of our buildings.

In closing, I would like to welcome three individuals that will assume new roles within our school administration.

• Ms. Mary Haslinger will serve as the Assistant Principal/Athletic Director at Carman-Ainsworth High School.
• Mr. Charles LaClear will serve as the Principal of Carman-Ainsworth High School
• Mr. Taylor Chapman will serve as the Principal of Carman-Ainsworth Middle School.

Ms. Haslinger, Mr. LaClear, and Mr. Chapman are dedicated educators that will be a welcome addition to our administrative team.  I can assure you that they will build outstanding relationships with our students, staff, families, and community members and will provide the type of leadership that will uphold the high educational standards that we expect and appreciate in Carman-Ainsworth Community Schools.

We are looking forward to the start of the upcoming school year and are preparing for nothing less than another outstanding year in Carman-Ainsworth Community Schools.

Sincerely,

   Eddie

Eddie L. Kindle
Superintendent of Schools

All meetings are the First or Third Tuesdays and will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Conference Room of the Carman-Ainsworth Administration Building, G-3475 W. Court Street, Flint, Michigan unless otherwise noted.

Charles joins us from Novi Schools where he was Assistant Principal of their High School.

Taylor had been principal of Avondale Alternative High School after being a teacher in Avondale Public Schools.

Mary has been our Interim Principal of C-A Middle School and is now our Athletic Director/Assistant Principal. She had been Athletic Director/Assistant Principal at Lapeer Schools before joining C-A last year.

Charles LaClear

The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), a Federal law, requires that Carman-Ainsworth Community Schools, with certain exceptions, obtain your written consent prior to the disclosure of personally identifiable information from your child’s education records. However, Carman-Ainsworth may disclose appropriately designated “directory information” without written consent, unless you have advised the District to the contrary in accordance with District procedures. The primary purpose of directory information is to allow Carman-Ainsworth to include this type of information from your child’s education records in certain school publications.

Directory information, which is information that is generally not considered harmful or an invasion of privacy if released, can also be disclosed to outside organizations without a parent’s prior written consent. In addition, two Federal laws require local educational agencies (LEAs) receiving assistance under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to provide military recruiters, upon request, with three directory information categories – names, addresses and telephone listings – unless parents have advised the LEA that they do not want their student’s information disclosed without their prior written consent.

Carman-Ainsworth has designated the following information as directory information:

• Student’s name • Parent’s name • Address • Telephone number • Date and place of birth • Major field of study • Participation in officially recognized activities and sports • Weight and height of members of athletic teams • Dates of attendance • Degrees, honors, and awards received • Electronic mail address • The most recent educational agency or institution attended • Grade level • Similar information generally found in
yearbooks • Pictures and video tapes of the image of the student

If you do not want Carman-Ainsworth to disclose directory information from your child’s education records without your prior written consent, you must notify the District in writing. This letter must be resubmitted on a yearly basis to the building principal.

The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) affords parents and students over 18 years of age (“eligible students”) certain rights with respect to the student’s education records. These rights are:

1. The right to inspect and review the student’s education recordswithin 45 daysof the day the School receives a request for access. Parents or eligible students should submit to the School principal (or appropriate school official) a written request that identifies the record(s) they wish to inspect. The School official will make arrangements for access and notify the parent or eligible student of the time and place where the records may be inspected. Charges will be made for copies of items contained within the record.
2. The right to request the amendment of the student’s education records that the parent or eligible student believes is inaccurate or misleading. Parents or eligible students may ask the School to amend a record that they believe is inaccurate or misleading. They should write the School principal (or appropriate official), clearly identify the part of the record they want changed, and specify why it is inaccurate or misleading. If the School decides not to amend the record as requested by the parent or eligible student, the School will notify the parent or eligible student of the decision and advise them of their right to a hearing regarding the request for amendment. Additional information regarding the hearing procedures will be provided to the parent or eligible student when notified of the right to a hearing.
3. The right to have records which personally refer to a student kept confidential except either by consent of the parent/eligible student or when being used by school personnel for a legitimate educational interest. A school official is a person employed by the School as an administrator, supervisor, instructor, or support staff member (including health or medical staff and law enforcement unit personnel); a person serving on the School Board; a person or company with whom the School has contracted to perform a special task (such as an attorney, auditor, medical consultant, or therapist); or a parent or student serving on an official committee, such as a disciplinary or grievance committee, or assisting another school official in performing his or her tasks. A school official has a legitimate educational interest if the official needs to review an education record in order to fulfill his or her professional responsibility. Certain official agencies may also request records. These are listed in the Board of Education Policy on Privacy of Student Records.
4. The right to file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education concerning alleged failures by the School to comply with the requirements of FERPA. The name and address of the Office that administers FERPA are:Family Policy Compliance Office, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20200-2-4605.

In accordance with Section 763.84 of the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act (AHERA), or the “Asbestos in Schools Rule,” Carman-Ainsworth Community  Schools  is notifying employees and building occupants, or their legal guardians, of activities conducted within the past school year involving the asbestos inspections, response actions, and post-response action activities, including periodic re-inspection and periodic surveillance activities, that are planned or in progress at School District facilities.

During the upcoming school year (the “2018 – 2019 School Year” – September 2018 through August 2019), Carman-Ainsworth Community Schools has planned the following activities related to asbestos-containing materials throughout the School District:

• Six Month Periodic Surveillances: Six-month periodic surveillances will be completed every six months and continue on a regular six-month schedule (next two scheduled rounds will occur in January and July of 2019).
• Three Year Re-inspections: The EPA requires that each school district re-inspect all known and assumed asbestos-containing materials once every three years. The three-year re-inspection activities for all Carman-Ainsworth Community Schools facilities were completed in July 2016.  Therefore, the next three-year re-inspections are due in the summer of 2019.
• Asbestos Abatement Projects – Scheduled: As of the construction of this document, no projects have been scheduled. When necessary to support renovations of building operations, abatement will be completed by trained and accredited personnel.

During the previous twelve months (the “2017 – 2018 School Year” – September 2017 through August 2018), Carman-Ainsworth Community Schools completed the following activities related to asbestos-containing materials throughout the School District:

• Six Month Periodic Surveillances: Six-month periodic surveillance activities were completed in January and August of 2018.
• Removal of floor tile at Dye Elementary and Rankin Elementary. Material removed at C-A High School.

AHERA Management Plans are available for review in each school building office or at the CACS Administration Building (G-3475 Court Street, Flint, Michigan). Summaries for all of the asbestos abatement projects conducted prior to the 2017 – 2018 School Year are located at each building in their AHERA Management Plan, while complete documentation is maintained in the CACS Administration Building.

Questions regarding the asbestos program for Carman-Ainsworth Community Schools may be addressed to Mr. Marc Cavett, Operations Supervisor for Carman-Ainsworth Community Schools at (810) 591-3220.

The seventeenth class for the Carman-Ainsworth Athletic Hall of Fame will be inducted on Saturday, October 13 at Holy Redeemer Family Life Center.

Individuals include Ainsworth Track star Cheryl Wallace-Perkins, Three-Sport star Paul Householder of Ainsworth, Football and Basketball standout Calvin Sims of Carman-Ainsworth High, Volleyball Coach Barb Hurand and Hockey Coach Tim Stone.

The two teams being honored are the 2002-2003 and the 2003-2004 Boys Basketball squads from Carman-Ainsworth High, both of whom played in the State Championship game.

Social hour begins at 4:30 p.m. Tickets cost $40.00 and may be reserved by calling Sue Carter at 810-908-7082.

Rachel Alexander

Rachel is joining the Middle School as Dean of Students. She has spent time travelling and been overseas to Germany and Rome. U.S. travels have included California, Portland, D.C. Baltimore, New York, Chicago, Florida, Ohio as well as other destinations. When not traveling she enjoys writing, poetry, music, football and basketball.

Marque Capadagli

Marque is looking forward to being at Randels Elementary this year as school counselor. As a graduate of C-A she is looking forward to coming home and giving back to the community where she grew up. She fills her spare time with scrapbooking, gardening, basketball, and walking. She remarked that her best vacation was to Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic. She also enjoys spending time in Traverse City with her family.

Kristi Cross

Kristi is excited to start teaching at C-A Middle School. She is a Sports Mom and loves to cook. She especially enjoys spending time with family and friends; even more while attending U of M Football games. She is looking forward to building positive relationships with students, their families, and the staff at CAMS.

Emily Ebe

Emily’s favorite time of the year is the beginning of a new school year. She is a first-grade teacher at Dillon. Emily had a busy summer; she just returned from her honeymoon with Justin in Italy where they found a favorite place in the small town of Calle of Gaville in Tuscany. Other hobbies include reading and going backpacking. Last year they went to Zion National Park.

Cassidy Elmer

Cassidy is from Fenton and joins us as a third-grade teacher at Randels. She has spent time traveling internationally and has visited France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Mexico, Honduras and Belize. When not traveling she can be found reading.

Megan Felisky

Megan is a Speech-Language Pathologist and will be at Dye Elementary this year. She studied abroad for a month in grad school and was able to visit London, England; Dublin, Ireland and Edinburgh, Scotland. She would love to return for another visit to Ireland one day. She fills her spare time with reading, fishing, and long walks with her puppy, Waylon. Megan is looking forward to collaborating with parents, teachers, and staff at Dye to create individualized plans to help students succeed in the classroom and to build confidence in their speech and language skills.

Kristen Gabany

Kristin will be teaching first grade at Rankin this year. She spends her spare time with her family, husband Brandon and son Greyson, going boating and kayaking while exploring Michigan. She loves the beach and has been to Maui, Florida and Texas.

Don Gleesing

Don will be at the Responsibility Room in the Middle School. His time away from work is spent camping with family and friends and enjoying outdoor activities. He also enjoys football, baseball and hockey. He can also be found helping his students and family as well as fixing things around the house. He is excited to be at CAMS and in a role that will allow him to make a positive difference with students.

Stacy Jaksa

Stacy did her student teaching at Dye Elementary and CAMS in 2017 and is excited to be an active member of the Middle School staff. Her goal is to make a positive influence on every student’s life and to encourage love for learning for years to come. Stacey enjoys hiking, biking, and swimming with her family. One day she would love to travel to Ireland and Italy to learn more about her ethnic descent.

Beth Kendrick

Beth has lived in the Flint/Flushing area and attended both C-A and Flushing schools. She is the Guidance Secretary at the Middle School and is thrilled to be back to her ‘old stomping grounds’ to be able to support students, staff, and parents. She is looking forward to building relationships all while providing the best possible support, advice, and guidance to each and every student to prepare them for their futures.

Kasie Johnson

Kasie is from Flint and is excited to join C-A and help students and their families be the change in the world. She enjoys singing, theatre, MSU Spartans, and making people laugh.  Kasie has traveled to Paris and Ireland in 2007 and would love to visit Italy next. She is honored to be entrusted with students’ social-emotional growth.

Michael Lynn

Michael is teaching 2/3 split at Dye Elementary. He is a foster parent and a Big Brother for Big Brothers/Big Sisters. Travels have taken him all over the United States, into Mexico and to China. His spare time is filled with bike riding, boating, and traveling.

Samuel Machinski

Samuel joins the High School staff as an English teacher. Fun note about him – he kissed the Blarney Stone while in Ireland a few years ago. He’d love to visit Eastern Europe, Turkey, and Northern Africa at some point. When not dreaming of travel time is spent with family, wife Kathleen and their young daughter. They are all currently awaiting a baby due at the first of the year. As a teacher, his students “can expect reflective and creative writing assignment, deep analysis of literature and a foray into sociolinguistics with numerous semantic arguments.”

Andrea McCullough

Andrea will be Middle School ELA this year. She and husband Chad have two children to keep them busy – Jaylee and Liam. They enjoy camping and attending sporting events. This past summer Andrea traveled to Punta Cana for her cousin’s wedding. She is looking forward to instilling a love for learning with her students. She is excited to be a part of the Cavalier family.

Amanda Miller

Amanda joins the high school this year. She loves to fill her spare time with cooking, baking, reading, camping, traveling, and volunteering. That is when she is not busy being a Band Mom and Treasurer for the Cavalier Band Boosters. Amanda has traveled all over the Eastern Coast and Southern U.S. She has also been to Canada, Spain, and Saint Maarten. She dreams of one day exploring the West Coast as well as going on a cruise. Amanda is excited to join C-A and share her passion for English Language Arts and more importable share her passion for providing special education services and helping students find their own path to success.

Zachary Nash

Zachary is a music teacher at both the Middle and High School. He has traveled throughout the U.S. and one day hopes to see Italy, Germany, and France. He looks forward to working with our students and said “Music is a great outlet for the body and the mind. Choir should be a place where someone can sing and express who they truly are.”

Emily Opper

Emily will be teaching at Atlantis. She enjoys horseback riding, gardening, reading, camping, and beach “sitting”. She loves spending time in Northern Michigan and the UP with her family. They are hoping to take a family vacation to Yellowstone next summer. Emily is thrilled to be a part of the District and looks forward to making this a great year.

Victoria Seitz

Victoria is teaching Kindergarten at Dye Elementary this year. Her hobbies include crafting and scrapbooking as well as some sports. She enjoys traveling and has been to a different big city each year – New York, Nashville, Las Vegas, Toronto. Victoria travels to Florida at least once a year and would like to someday visit Boston and Los Angeles. She is “excited and grateful for the opportunity to make as big of an impact on my students that my teachers made on my life.”

Andrea Sutherland

Andrea will be teaching Kindergarten at Randels Elementary. She loves traveling around the state with her family – husband, Brian, and sons Duncan and Thomas. She has also been to Las Vegas, Washington, D.C., San Antonio, and Niagara Falls.

Halee Sutton

Halee is teaching fifth grade at Randels. She is “excited to work with such an amazing team of educators, especially my fifth-grade partners.” She looks forward to assisting students to grow and learn as much as they can.

Yvonne VanBeveren

Yvonne will be Middle School LD Resource teacher. She is ‘easily distracted’ by all dogs and anything vintage. Yvonne has also traveled to England, Ireland, China, Belgium, and Sweden.  She is looking forward to working with all the students at CAMS.

Michelle Walther

Michelle has taught at schools in the suburbs of Boston, offered tutoring and classes to prepare students for the SAT and ACT and is excited about teaching near her roots in Birch Run. She is eager to become involved in this community as an English teacher at the High School. When not exploring things with her kids, Dominic, Eliana, Chris and Joe she is focused on training for a 200 mile, 12-person relay in Kentucky this October. She also loves to ‘get away’ to Northern Michigan although her top favorite places are Maine and Vermont

Marissa Winn

Marissa joins the staff at Dye Elementary this year. She enjoys dancing, horseback riding and spending time with family and friends.

On Friday, November 9^th, the high school chapter of HOSA (Health Occupations Students of America) welcomed the Red Cross for the fall blood drive. HOSA students volunteered to greet and register donors, manage the Rapid Pass procedure, serve the food, and assist as unit helpers. They worked alongside a wonderful team of nurses and technicians and collected 43 units of blood. Donors were given a Red Cross t-shirt as a thank you and were served bagels, sandwiches, fruit, cookies, water and juice. HOSA appreciates the CAHS custodial staff and the physical education department for their help in setting up the auxiliary gym. HOSA would also like to give a special thank-you to the Michigan Eye Institute whose monetary donation helped to provide the food for the blood drive donors and volunteers.

Dye families were treated to a special event for the Title I family literacy night – The Magic of Literacy!  Students and parents were entertained by professional magician, Fred Lenter, in three different shows.  Students also made magic wands and wrote stories about magical hats while their parents talked with reading teachers about strategies to help their children read at home.  Every Dye student was able to take home a bag with two tricks and a book of their choice.  The evening also included dinner.  Dye’s next family night is December 13.  Watch for information to come home in early December!

Randels 5th Grade Band concert on March 12th.

Dye students had lots of fun during March is Reading Month! These students are participating in a school-wide book swap.

Dillon Elementary students celebrated March is Reading Month. One of the activities they did was make a chain around the school of books they read. Students loved watching it grow each day!

On Monday, February 25 and March 11, fourteen students representing Carman-Ainsworth Middle School were welcomed to the Max M. & Marjorie S. Fisher Music Center for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s 2019 Middle School Honor Band and Orchestra Honor Days. Students had the opportunity to work with conductors from the DSO’s Civic Youth Ensembles program and play side-by-side with Detroit Symphony Orchestra musicians. Following a day of rehearsals, all ensembles participated in an evening concert at historic Orchestra Hall in downtown Detroit.

Seventh and Eighth Grade Band members selected to participate in the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Honor’s Band include Malachi, Alex, Katie, Mackenzie, Alyssa, Jacob, Micah, and Camden.

Students chosen to participate in the Orchestra included:  Paige, Cordell, Jayla, Malachi, Asia, and Anthony.

Congratulations to all students selected for this event.

Rankin HAL students presented at the Young Innovators Fair at Kettering on March 12. They competed against 4th – 6th graders from around the county. A group of those students were chosen to compete at the next level at the Michigan Invention Convention at Henry Ford in April. It’s the first time we’ve had students be invited to the state level. They also received a $250 Kettering scholarship.

Rankin HAL students that were chosen to present at the Young Innovators Fair at Kettering.

Rankin HAL students that were chosen to compete at the Michigan Invention Convention at Henry Ford.

The Sloan/Longway staff returned to Dye for another outstanding science night. This time we focused on older elementary students with activities and experiments designed specifically for our third, fourth, and fifth-grade students. It was a great night filled with learning, fun, and pizza!