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May 5, 2014
Board Meeting - 6:30 pm
May 15, 2014
East Graduation - 6:00 pm
Central Graduation - 8:00 pm
May 16, 2014
South Graduation - 6:00 pm
North Graduation - 8:00 pm
May 20, 2014
Last Day of School for Students(1/2 day)
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| Calendar Adjustment | | The school board approved changing this year's calendar to ending on May 20, 2014 rather than the 22nd. Students will attend school for a 1/2 day on Tuesday, May 20, 2014, and teachers will have two days of professional development on Wednesday, May 21st, and Thursday, May 22nd. There will be an Administrative Day for teachers on Friday, May 23rd. |
| Sullivan East Art Students' Train Mural | |
Sullivan East High School Art Club students, led by art teachers Marcia Ross and Debra Brooks, completed a train mural on a twenty-five-foot high train trestle for a railroad bridge that once spanned the Holston River in Bluff City. The old train trestle has long been the site of a painting depicting a steam engine coming out of a tunnel. The Bluff City area was an important railway center during the Civil War.
The current painting is the third version of that scene, combining the colors and style of the previous works while changing the perspective of the tunnel and the details of the train. The original was painted in the 1970's, with a second version painted by local artist Tim Cross some years later.
Bluff City Mayor Irene Wells requested that the painting be updated. Under the direction of Marcia Ross and with the assistance of the water department staff and their equipment, the artists started painting in October and finished just before Christmas 2013.
Participating students were: Hannah Tester, Megan Rowlette, Megan Booker, Alisha Burnheimer, Bryanna Shelby, Haley Carver, Ben Burgess and Grace Baker.
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| Tennessee State SkillsUSA Carpentry Competition Winner, Dylan Knight - Sullivan East | |
Sullivan East student, Dylan Knight, represented the school at a regional competition. He competed for SkillsUSA in carpentry where he placed first, by doing so it qualified him for the state competition in Chattanooga. There, Dylan had the task of: cutting stairs, building a floor, a wall with a window, and cutting two rafters. He placed first in the state competition, which qualifies him for national competition in Kansas City on June 24th. Dylan is very excited to have the opportunity to represent Sullivan East and Sullivan County in the SkillsUSA Carpentry competition at the national level.
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| Charger 4K |
Colonial Heights Middle School PE instructors Mark Conkin and Kim Ratliff recently incorporated into their PE program a "Couch to 4K" program in an effort to instill confidence, fitness awareness, and teamwork. Thus far, 207 runners completed the 4K. A competitive race, with over 90 registered runners, is slated for next week.
Participants received a "Chasing the Charger" tee-shirt upon completing the race.
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| Sullivan Gardens and United Way | |
On April 22 Sullivan Garden's 2nd grade distributed learning kits to parents and students. The learning kits are part of the United WE Read program, a partnership between Sullivan County Schools and United Way of Greater Kingsport.
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| Sullivan South Student Presents Astronomy Paper to the Tennessee Junior Academy of Sciences |
Sullivan South student Kayla Jenkins presented her scientific paper, The Age and Distance of the Open Cluster NGC 2126, before the Tennessee Junior Academy of Sciences at Belmont University in Nashville on Friday, April 25, 2014. The Tennessee Junior Academy of Sciences (TJAS) is one of the oldest student science competition programs in the state and the nation. Since its inception in 1942 at the George Peabody College in Nashville, the TJAS objective has been to promote science education in Tennessee high schools by encouraging original scientific research by secondary school science students.
Data for Kayla's paper was collected with the 0.9-meter SARA telescope, located at the National Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona. This was an extra-curricular project, involving many hours of work both after school and on weekends, since the project began this past Fall. Kayla is one of South science teacher Tom Rutherford's independent research students.
A video of Kayla's presentation, along with those of the other student presenters, may be found at http://www.bitly.com/tjas14
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