ACHIEVING EXCELLENCE TOGETHER
  
December 10, 2013
In This Issue
NKY FIRST LEGO League Regional Competition
Cooper High School Students attend National Association of Student Councils
Florence Elementary teams up with Florence Fire/EMS
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NKY FIRST LEGO League Regional Competition
  
Boone County Schools swept the awards at the NKY FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) LEGO League Tournament  yesterday.  Fourty-six (46) teams competed in the largest FLL regional tournament in the state. Out of the 9 teams qualifying for the state tournament, 8 are Boone County teams!  In order to qualify for the state tournament, teams must have the highest scores in all four of the competition areas combined:  1) research/ innovative solution/ presentation, 2) core values (teamwork, application to life, gracious professionalism), 3) robot design and programming, and 4) robot performance.
The following schools have qualified for state:
1) Jr. Brainy Bots (Gray MS and New Haven ES)-1st place overall champions award
2) Brainy Bots (Gray MS)-2nd place overall champions award
3) TWCA (Longbranch ES)-3rd place overall champions award
4) Longbranch Wildfires (Longbranch ES)-Robot Innovation and Strategy Award
5) Conner Bot Squad (Conner MS)-Teamwork Award
6) Trailblazers (Camp Ernst MS)
7) We've Got the Minds (New Haven ES)-Best Overall Project Award
8) Mann Survival Team (Mann ES)-Best Overall Robot Award

Other Boone County teams receiving awards were:
Erpenbeck Stormtroopers (Erpenbeck ES)-Gracious Professionalism Award
Goodridge Cardineers (Goodridge ES)-Judges Award
Knights of Victory (Florence ES)-Judges Award

In addition, out of the 29 JFLL (Junior FIRST LEGO League) 1st-3rd grade teams exhibiting at the Tournament, 19 were Boone County Teams.
Jr. Brainy Bots - 1st Place
Brainy Bots - 2nd Place
TWCA - 3rd Place

Cooper High School Students attend National Association of Student Councils

 

Amanda Wirasakti, Tori Martin, Grant Kennedy, and Nathan Halfhill

Recently four sophomores from Cooper High School attended the three day LEAD conference in Denver, Colorado sponsored by the National Association of Student Councils. Amanda Wirasakti, Tori Martin, Grant Kennedy, and Nathan Halfhill along with their advisers Jeri Giska and Bridgette Brown served as Kentucky's lone high school representatives among some 400 student leaders and advisers representing 23 states, Mexico and Puerto Rico.  They attended workshops geared at teambuilding, student involvement, service learning, fundraising and leadership.  Tori and Grant also completed an officer training course.  All the students agreed it was an amazing experience and look forward to using much of what they learned to strengthen the sense of community for the Cooper student body.

Florence Elementary and the Florence Fire/EMS Department team up
  
The Florence Elementary School teamed up with the Florence Fire/EMS Department in their 2013 Smoke Detector Blitz. Thank you goes out to the department for their continued support of education and the safety of our Boone County Students.
Thank you Officer Krebs and his team!
  
Click here for blitz report.