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October 18
End of the 1st Nine Weeks
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November 5
School Board Meeting
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November 6
Schools Closed - Inservice Day
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November 19 - 23 Schools Closed
Fall Break & Thanksgiving Break
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| Sullivan Middle School Fall Festival |
Sullivan Gardens K-8 will be hosting a Fall Festival on Saturday, October 13, 11:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. All are welcome to come and enjoy great food, music, and games!
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| NASA Engineer Todd Barber visits Innovation Academy |
On Thursday, October 4, Todd Barber from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory spoke with the students at Innovation Academy. He discussed the Mars, Saturn, and Jupiter missions. Throughout his presentation, he answered students' questions and expanded their curiosity. We are very grateful to Mr. Barber for sharing his time, talents, and knowledge with us.
Mr. Barber is a JPL senior propulsion engineer, now working as lead propulsion engineer on the Cassini mission to Saturn following part-time work on the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission and Deep Impact mission. Todd also is working as a propulsion engineer on the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission, which dispensed a large rover to the red planet in November, 2011. Cassini was launched on October 15, 1997 on its two-billion-mile, seven-year journey to the ringed planet. The MER team launched launch twin rovers to the red planet in June and July of 2003, and Opportunity is still going strong eight years after landing. Todd also worked as the lead impactor propulsion engineer on Deep Impact, which successfully crashed into Comet Tempel-1 on Independence Day, 2005, at twenty-three-thousand miles per hour!
Mr. Barber worked on the Galileo project for over seven years and his primary responsibility was getting Galileo into Jupiter orbit on December 7, 1995. Todd also worked part-time on the Space Infra-Red Telescope Facility (SIRTF) mission and on the Stardust mission, as well as the Mars Sample Return mission and a Mars airplane study. Todd received NASA's Exceptional Achievement Award in 1996 for his work on Galileo. He also worked three years on the Deep Space One mission, the first NASA mission to use electric propulsion (a la "Star Trek"). This mission included flybys of a near-Earth asteroid, Braille, and a comet named Borrelly.
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| "Music in the Castle" Band Competition |
Congratulations to our High School Band Members who all performed at the 62nd annual "Music in the Castle" competition at Tennessee High School this last Saturday.
The Sullivan South Rebel Band received 2nd place in Class 4A in Music, General Effect, and Percussion. They received 3rd place in their class in Visual and Color Guard. The band placed 2nd in Class 4A and 3rd overall for the day out of 18 bands.
Sullivan Central Cougar Band placed 1st in General Effect, Visual, Percussion, and Guard in Class 3A and 2nd in Music. The band placed 1st in Class 3A and were 5th overall for the day out of 18 bands.
Sullivan East and Sullivan North both competed in Class 2A and East's band placed 3rd and North's band placed 5th.
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| National 4-H Week 2012- October 7-13 | |
In honor of National 4-H Week, Sullivan County 4-H Extension would like to recognize one of the many outstanding parents and teachers we are blessed to have involved in the 4-H program in Sullivan County as volunteers. The individual we chose has been 4-H member herself and shares a passion for educating youth and 4-H. Our "Spotlight on Success" volunteer for National 4-H Week 2012 is Mrs. Teresa Calhoun. Mrs. T, as her students call her, is a 4th grade teacher at Indian Springs Elementary. We recently presented her with some questions related to her 4-H involvement. You will find her responses at the following link: https://utextension.tennessee.edu/sullivan/Pages/4-HYouthDevelopment.aspx
Thank you to Mrs. Calhoun for taking time to share her experiences and knowledge with us and thank you to all the Sullivan County Department of Education Administrators, Faculty and Staff who help us to make the Sullivan County 4-H Youth Development Program possible for our youth.
Sincerely,
Walter Malone and Vickie Clark
Sullivan County 4-H Extension Agents
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| NJROTC Annual Military Inspection |
Sullivan North High School successfully completed their Annual Military Inspection this week. Lieutenant Dustin Dooley - a graduate of Sullivan North class of 1991 - conducted the inspection on behalf of the Naval Service Training Command.
Lieutenant Dooley began the day with a briefing by cadets on the mission and functions of the NJROTC program and the programs place within Sullivan North. Following this, cadets formed for personnel inspection and various marching routines in the gym. The inspection received an overall grade of outstanding and culminated with the awarding of six exemplary appearance medals to Cadets Amber Revty, Daniel Bishop, Cierra Fitzgerald, Anthony McMurray, Kaitlyn Woods, and Cindy Mcclellan. Lieutenant Dooley also officiated over the promotions of four cadets, Cadet Daniel Bishop and Cadet Amber Hicks to the rank of Chief Petty Officer and Cadets Jon Parsons and Jimmy Rhoton to the rank of First Class Petty Officer.
Lieutenant Dooley is currently as Director of Port Operations for the Naval Submarine Base at Kings Bay, Georgia.
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