February Nutrition News from NANA Food Services
NWABSD SPELLING BEE COMPETITION TONIGHT
The district's spelling bee competition will be held at 7:00pm tonight in the Kotzebue Middle/High School cafeteria. The bee will be broadcast live via UStream: go to 'Community' on the channel bar above and select 'NWABSD Streaming Video' to view the competition directly through the webpage.
ELF Movie Premier
BestBeginnings (Alaska's Early Childhood Investment) has a new video out called Babies On Track.It's a tour of Alaska's babies and how to help them grow healthy, happy andready to learn. It's about helping children develop language, communication andsocial skills just by sharing everyday activities with them. One hundred Movie Premiere Events will be held across Alaskanext week and you're invited to one in Kotzebue -this Saturday, February 25th - stay tuned to KOTZ Radio fordetails...and watch for posted flyers around town.
Themovie is 15 minutes long and each family who attends will receive a free set oftwo baby board books and the DVD. Contact the ELF Program for details: Maureen Nolan at 442-3472 x263
Noatak 4.0 Students
Noatak students Caleb VanAmburg (9th grade) and Sarah VanAmburg (11th grade) are recognized for their outstanding academic achievements!
Kobuk Youth Leaders Recycle
Kobuk Youth Leaders took advantage of the warmer weather and collected 5 huge bags of aluminum cans for recycling! Thanks for helping keep the school and village clean!
Health 110 Takes Flight
Students enrolled in the distance Health 110 class battled the elements to meet their teacher live in Fairbanks on the UAF campus. In addition to the extremely cold temps that awaited them, students were also exposed to the opportunities UAF has to offer including the Career and Technical College, Rural Student Services and Summer RAHI programs. Students braved the elements to meet fellow students from other parts of the State who are also taking part in this unique course. This course was chosen as it articulates into all the Allied Health programs UAF offers so that students are earning a much-needed credit to move forward in the health field. Although this is a distance course, students have the added support of having a certified here to help facilitate the class.
Selawik CTE are learning by doing!
Students in Selawik are learning by doing: Power Tech, Subsistence Shop, and Wood Tech are classes where students are learning through hands-on activities. Walk into the shop and you will see students thoroughly engaged in the task at hand. Under Mr. Swift's expert guidance, the students have followed detailed schematic diagrams, repaired wooden sleds, and created bookshelves, tables, dog houses, coat racks, and more.
KIA CTE students are busy!Kiana students work on a project that blends design, recycling, measurement, mathematics and multiple other CTE-related skills. Mr. Carlson and his Kiana High School CTE students have been seen showing their famous Kiana Garbage Display Rack design in Version 2.0 preparing it for delivery and installation at the Kiana school housing complex.
Students help with regional ice road data collection!
The ice road from Kotzebue to Noorvik is a welcome addition to the landscape in the winter months when many folks can find themselves feeling the onset of cabin fever. If funding and conditions allow the ice road offers affordable, comfortable, and quick escape from town. Equipped with an auger, SPOT GPS, and a fleet of snow machines and basket sleds, Rod Eakin's Hunting/Trapping/Survival class embarked on an afternoon trip to follow the route of the previous year's ice road. Their mission was to drill holes and record the location and ice thickness. That information would be used to inform the decision as to whether a road could be built again this year. If a road is built these students will also be able to feel proudknowing that they helped to connect the people of the NW Arctic.
Kivalina embraces CTE with drafting classesMcQueen School’s CTE Drafting teacher Mr. Fonger’s classes have learned the basics of drafting and are now putting their knowledge onto paper. The classes are taking a sketch of a house layout and are putting it onto paper, including scale and dimension. They are using their drawing boards to complete their work, along with the various tools to make all the angle and shapes. The class has learned about the various types of lines, measuring with an architect’s ruler and how to use the various tool in the drafting kit. The students have really enjoyed the class and are using their new acquired skills in their other classes as well.
Battle of the Books!
A BIG congratulations to the Battle of the Books District Winners!
High School: 1st-Noatak 2nd-Kiana 3rd-Kotzebue
7/8th Grade: 1st-Kiana 2nd-Selawik 3rd-Noorvik
5/6th Grade: 1st- June Nelson 2nd-Kiana 3rd-Noorvik
3/4th Grade: 1st- Noorvik 2nd-Kiana 2nd-June Nelson
All first place teams move on to the State Battle of the Books Competition February 27th thru March 1st.
