Archery Training for Volunteers

Attention parents and community volunteers...We will be offering official National Archery in the Schools (NASP) supervisor training here in Cumberland.(date to be determined) Volunteers will need to commit 1 day (8 hours) for the training. We will be offering archery as part of our curriculum. Volunteers would be essential to the best implementation of this new initiative. The charter school grant will pay for the training if you commit to volunteering for our school. Having trained supervisors would also make it possible for students to compete in official NASP competitions. This could lead to club type activities in addition to classroom curriculum. If you are interested in being a trained volunteer please contact me by Feb 6th. For more info on NASP click here.

Students Build Energy Bike

Students are currently in the process of attempting to build an "energy bike". The energy bike will be used to demonstrate how much energy is used by different items (light bulbs, fluorescent bulbs, radios, etc). Students will then be able to teach others about energy use and how to conserve energy. To accomplish this students are converting a mountain bike to attach to a generator that is connected to a display panel. We welcome help from our "electrically gifted" community members to help us with connecting the generator and creating the circuitry for the display panel.

Students Investigate Atoms!

Students have been learning about the structure of the atom. They have learned that geometric shapes are not only found in atoms, but also in compounds, crystals and larger structures like famous buildings. As a class we have investigated how our understanding of the atom changed throughout history and how those discoveries developed into the creation of nuclear energy. The students have been following the scientific discoveries and social events of the early decades of the 1900's. If any parents, grandparents, neighbors or relatives have personal accounts related to these events, we would be grateful if you would share these first hand accounts with our class.