School Zone
Points of Pride
Pine
Forest’s Boxenville
A miniature model of
Jacksonville, constructed by students at Pine Forest
School of the Arts was displayed in City Hall in
downtown Jacksonville from October 29 through November
2. Throughout this project, students at Pine Forest
learned first hand the importance of community planning
and design. Starting in August, students researched
buildings and spaces in order to create their very own
quarter-scale city.
The 1,200 square foot
display, dubbed Boxenville by the Pine Forest students,
is comprised of buildings made from cardboard boxes,
roads, sidewalks, parks and landscaping, all surrounding
the beautiful St. Johns River.
“This is an exciting way for
our students to understand the importance of proper
community planning,” said Duval County Public Schools
Superintendent Ed Pratt-Dannals. “Integrating arts into
our academic programs gives students the opportunity to
learn using both creative and rigorous standards.”
The display in City Hall
follows the unveiling of the cardboard city October 24
at Pine Forest. Students held an election and The
Honorable Corey Kreisel, a second grader, presided over
an official ribbon-cutting ceremony at the school.
Boxenville was made possible
through a grant to the Jacksonville Chapter of the
American Institute of Architects with the purpose of
bringing design education into the public schools. Glen
Dasher is the local AIA president and Joanna Rodriguez
was the AIA chair of the Pine Forest project.
Three
Fort Caroline Middle School Teachers to Attend
SuperComputing 07
Mathematics teacher Bill
Moredock, Science teacher Alex Manolis and School
Instructional Coach, Stephanie Stevenson have been
selected to participate in the SuperComputing 07 (SC 07)
Education Program, November 10-14, 2007 at the
Reno-Sparks Convention Center in Reno, Nevada. The
program was designed to assist and support teachers’
participation in the integration of computational
science into the classroom by increasing their knowledge
of and access to resources that can be used in the
classroom.
Their acceptance and funding
to attend the program was based on their experience with
the Kennedy Launch Academy Space Simulation (KLASS),
which Bill and Stephanie worked on during the summer of
2006. Alex later used the simulation with their students
during the 2006-2007 school year.
The SC 07 Education Program
will be held November 10-13, in Reno, Nevada.
Participants will be engaged in hands-on activities to
engage them in applying computational science, grid
computing and high performance computing resources in
education. People that have attended the summer
workshops described below, are encouraged to attend to
continue to expand their knowledge and skills.
The program will include
activities that address Learning and Physical Challenges
in Education. Travel, housing and meals are provided for
all participants selected to attend the program in Reno.
SC 07 is the international conference for high
performance computing, networking, storage and analysis.
Stephanie wrote an article
about their experiences which were published in the
September 1, 2007 edition of TechLearning's e-zine. You
can read Stephanie’s article by clicking on the
following link:
KLASS" Act: the Kennedy Launch Academy Simulation System.
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