Central receives STEM Best Program.
The Iowa STEM Council Executive Committee voted unanimously to award 13 of 23 proposed new or expanded STEM BEST® (Businesses Engaging Students and Teachers) Program partnerships. These newly added partners bring the total to 50 partnerships in Iowa since 2014.
The STEM BEST® Program fosters a learning environment where students are able to participate in real workplace projects designed by business professionals and teachers and apply K-12 science, technology, engineering and mathematics to skills, knowledge and behaviors needed for STEM careers.
Awards are used for equipping collaborative work spaces, educator training and development in workplace-classroom integration and curriculum development and coordination.
Central District Leadership Team mappings all the things we have going on. Working on narrowing our focus!
Biology student are making good use of the new white board tables in Ms. Gritzner’s classroom as they review cell division.
Food Science 1 students enjoyed having guests come to the classroom to judge their fruit and vegetable monster creations. The judges chose the Monster Mash family as the most creative. Thank you judges for coming!
Halloween Monsters in the Food Science 1 class. The students created fruit and vegetable monsters for a nutrition lab.
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In celebration of Arthur Geisert's Book release of Pumpkin Island last weekend, our K/1 kids created pumpkins paintings in art class demonstrating exploration of various paint tools. These pumpkins were hung up in store fronts of our local business'. It is exciting to have an artist/writer right here in our Elkader, and equally as exciting to have so many local businesses supporting the art.
Awesome crowd at our Halloween CCS assembly!
Looking forward to seeing everyone at the CCS assembly and Holiday Parade, 2:30 in the high school gym. Come celebrate our amazing students with us!
Ms. Gritzner's class wants your Halloween Pumpkins!
We are attempting to divert this organic waste from going into the landfill. Read the details below if you would like to donate your pumpkin or other decorative gourds to a worthy cause.
Fifth graders participated in the Iowa Youth Straw Poll today. In a close vote, they chose Gary Siegwarth for governor. For District 1 U.S. House of Representatives, Rod Blum and Abby Finkenauer ended in a tie!
Deer mount made in Mr. O'Brien's Woods Class
Shout out to Central Government students and Mr. Wiley for hosting a well organized political forum!
MaryAnn Gibney, class of 2010, talked with Mrs. Healy's Pre-employment Strategies class and Mr. Stramer's English 2 class about her job as a Tech Recruiter for LinkedIn out of the Chicago office. She gave tips on public speaking, navigating career choices, and benefits of using LinkedIn.
CCS winners at the trout hatchery!
Faith Blaskovich was the mystery reader in Mrs. Erickson's class today. They worked on the book Refuge for the Global Read Aloud.
The Central FFA students enjoyed the Garth Brooks concert and are in their first general session at the National Convention.
Get to Starmont tonight and cheer on our Central Warrior Volleyball Team as they take on Ed-Co in 3rd round of playoffs. First set starts at 5:30 pm. Help us pack the gym!
The Friends of the Library invite you to the Elkader Public Library on Friday the 26th to see Arthur Geisert's River Town etchings. So check it out since it's an early out day. The library is open until 5:00. The etchings will also be on display Saturday, October 27th from 9:30 to 1:00. A great place to stop before or after the Pumpkin Island book launch and signing which begins at 11:00.
Central's General Computer Application students use their formatting skills to redesign a menu for a local business.
