Congratulations go out to the ACE Award winners for the first quarter at Lindsey Elementary School. Students awarded by their teachers for demonstrating…
Lindsey ACE Awards
Congratulations go out to the ACE Award winners for the first quarter at Lindsey Elementary School. Students awarded by their teachers for demonstrating positive attitude, citizenship and effort in the classroom include:
Kindergartners: Leigha Bell, Olivia Geraci, James Nicolosi and Connor Northup;
First-graders: Miles Baker, Clarke Caudill, Cole Goss, Cecilia Kobella, David Kurtz, Ben Mackin, Parker Ohlsen and Dominic Tonti;
Second-graders: Sophia Bell, It’sabella DiFranco, Trevor Grinstead, Shawn Leonard, Danica Mackin, Brooke Moriarity, Christopher Oser, Tyler Thompson and Ryan Whitney;
Third-graders: Lina DiFranco, Carter Gibson, Cecilia Jadrych, Nathan Kercher, Russell Peterson, Sofia Romano and John Velliky;
Fourth-graders: Ryder Frankmann, Emma Klocker, Megan McGinnis, Jesse Moriarity, Casey Orloski, Haley Ottman, Morgan Palchick, It’saak Taiclet, Emma Timm and Meghan Zebrowski;
Fifth-graders: Jake Bahleda, JoLee Baker, Joey Began, Aiden Bindokas, Alexis Brown, Vincent Brown, Rae Ehrbar, Grace Gyetko, Christian Paros, Heather Patterson, Finn Pitcock, Rafael Rodriguez, Megan Smith, Elijah Tollon, Cantrelle Williams and Natalie Zargari.
West G Gets Fourth Place in ‘Mole Olympics’
On Oct. 23, chemistry students at high schools in Tucson, Az., Indianola Iowa, Highland Ill., Burlington, Mass., Hudsonville, Mich., St. Louis, Mo., Las Cruces, N.M., Chester Township, Medina, Newberg, Ore., Exton, Pa., Harrison City, Pa., Montrose, Pa. and the Beaconhouse Margalla Boys school in It’slamabad Pakistan competed in the “Mole Olympics” (Molympics).
Why? To learn about Avogadro’s number, 6.02 x 1023 or one mole, and its importance in chemistry.
The mole is a counting unit in chemistry and represents the number of atoms in 12.0115 grams of carbon.
Mole Day is celebrated from 6:02 a.m to 6:02 p.m on Oct. 23 each year.
Students honed their skills at estimation, measurement, dimensional analysis and problem solving by competing in the Tally Mark Challenge, the Sponge Squeeze, the Mole of Metals, the Stopper Tower and the Avogadro Fitness Challenge events.
At stake were bragging rights and a trophy that will travel to the winning school each year.
West Geauga High School’s team, led by chemistry teacher Kristin Gregory, got fourth place.
This year’s top school was Burlington High School in Burlington, led by chemistry teacher Wendy Czerwinski.
Two schools tied for second place: Highland High School in Medina, led by chemistry teacher Chris Luker and Tanque Verde High School in Tucson, led by chemistry teacher Grazyna Zreda.
In third place was Mayfield High School in Las Cruces, led by chemistry teacher Ann Gardner.
The Molympics competition, now in its second year, is the result of a crosscountry collaboration between five high school chemistry teachers who met and planned the event via Twitter.
Czerwinski, Gardner, Gregory, LuAnn Lee of Newberg and Doug Ragan of Hudsonville also used Google apps for education to organize and run the event and to spread the word to participants worldwide.
Based on the success of year two, next year’s Molympics should be bigger and better than ever.
