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2ALBION CENTRAL SCHOOL --- Achievement, Character, and Success for Life!A Message from ourSuperintendent…The seasons are changing at Albion Central! That’s nota weather forecast, but recognition of the transition fromwinter athletics to the spring musicals and spring sports.Our winter sports season ended with the boys’ andgirls’ basketball teams hosting well-played sectionalcontests. Unfortunately, despite their strong efforts,neither team advanced in the sectional tournament.Albion was also represented at the Section VI wrestlingtournament as several grapplers competed and one moved on to the state qualifier. Springsports, despite the current weather, are just around the corner!The music and theater seasons are in full swing as well. Our Middle School dramaprogram takes the stage March 8 and 9 with “Schoolhouse Rock Live!,” while the HighSchool program produces “Beauty and the Beast” on March 22 and 23. The All-DistrictInstrumental Concert on March 13 and the annual Jazz Band Dinner Dance on March 16showcase our students’ musical talents. The Eastman at Albion Courthouse Series kicks offon March 10 with the ACS Flute Choir performing along with artists from the Eastman Schoolof Music.March also finds us celebrating the induction of new members of the National HonorSociety, hosting the Middle School’s annual Empty Bowls event, scheduling Middle and HighSchools Parent-Teacher Conferences, and registering next year’s Kindergarten and Pre-Kindergarten students. It is a busy month!While our students are involved in all of these events, personnel are busy “behind thescenes” with several other activities. The safety review we began after the Connecticutschool tragedy continues. Law enforcement and safety experts are reviewing their pastrecommendations. I fully expect that we will see changes in their guidance that we willimplement here that will change our procedures. We are moving forward with ourAPPR plan for teacher and principal evaluation that was approved by the State EducationDepartment. And, while budget is a year-round process for us, we have moved into high gearas we prepare the draft plan for consideration by the Board of Education and, ultimately, atthe polls, by district residents. We remain committed to implementing a plan that balancesthe needs of our students with the ability of our taxpayers to pay for the plan.As always, I encourage you to contact the appropriate person at school if you havequestions or need assistance. I look forward to seeing you at many of our spring events!Albion Middle SchoolArt Students present:The 4th AnnualEmpty Bowls EventTo Benefit the Food Pantry at Community ActionThu., March 21, 2013 • 5:30 - 7 p.m.(Doors open at 5 p.m. to choose a bowl)Albion Middle School Cafeteria • $5 donationYour $5.00 donation benefits the Community Action Food Pantry. It gives you admissionto our event, a student-made pottery bowl to keep, a simple soup and bread supper, and ashort student-led service-learning program about hunger in our community and the world.The student-created bowls serve as a reminder that many people live with empty bowls,empty stomachs, and a lack of food every day. Please come out to support the students’efforts and our local food pantry.Geography Bowl WinnersGeography Bowl is a program where students in grades 3, 4, and 5 study continents,countries, capital cities and geographical features of our world culminating in a Jeopardytypequiz-bowl competition. The goal is to challenge and motivate children to learn moreabout the world where they live and celebrate that learning with a fun quiz bowl. After thegrade-level competition, a championship team was named for each grade and from that teaman individual grade-level winner.In the classroom competition, Tyler Gibson, Leah Kania and Zoe Cusson from Mrs.Diebolt’s class won for the third grade. Chris Shabazz, Olivia Morrison and Hannah Brewerfrom Mrs. Kania’s class won for the fourth grade. Mrs. Monacelli’s class team consisting ofEthan Hryhorenko, Taylor Phillips, Kolin Vangorder, Michael DiCureia and Patrick Rickerwon the Geography Bowl for the fifth grade.Third-Grade Individual ChampionsPhotographs of StudentsDuring the school year, students may be photographed for use in school publications. Ifyou do not want your child’s photograph published, please call Mary Ann Donnelly at 589-2050 ext. 2990 or mdonnelly@albionk12.org.Albion Central School HostsFFA State ConventionBy Alison O’Hearn, Chapter Vice President(l-r) Reuben Rivers (3), Tyler Gibson (1), and Loran Reid (2)Fourth-Grade Individual ChampionsFFA Officers pictured (l-r) Alison O’Hearn, Abigail Maines, Mariah Pepe, Logan London, SaraMillspaugh, Riley Kelly, Elizabeth Bentley, Jenny McKenna.Don’t be alarmed when you see hundreds of students clad in blue corduroy jacketsinvading Albion in May. The FFA State Convention is coming to Albion! On May 2-4, theAlbion FFA will be hosting the 88th Annual New York State FFA Convention at the MiddleSchool and High School. This annual event is expected to bring more than 1,200 FFAstudents, 100 chaperones and advisors, 200 career development judges, 200 or moreparents and many farmers and other agribusiness people from all over New York State toAlbion for an unparalleled gathering of potential agribusiness leaders. Attendees will stay atthe various hotels in nearby Batavia. The three-day convention will consist of workshops,competition in career development events, community service, and tours of local farms andbusinesses. The Albion FFA members have been working hard to prepare for this uniquegathering and excitedly anticipate May.FFA Advisor, Adam Krenning said, “This is a huge undertaking. As you can imagine,there is a lot of planning and organizing that goes into hosting an event of this size. Itdefinitely keeps us busy and helps develop the leadership qualities in students that areparamount to our organization. We are grateful to the district and our FFA Alumni for theircontinued support. Our organization has been working on this event since the moment wefound out that it would be here in Albion.” If you would like more information, please emailAdam Krenning at akrenning@albionk12.org.(l-r) Kyle Woolston (2), Derek Osburn (1) and Chris Shabazz (3)Fifth-Grade Individual Champions(l-r) Ethan Hryhorenko (2), Conner Hollenbeck (1), and Taylor Phillips (3)The LINK March 2013
Albion All-County MusicA number of our students were selected to participate in All-County Chorus and Bandensembles this winter. All-County ensembles represent the top student-musicians inOrleans County. Musicians are selected based upon factors including performance ability,instrumentation/voicing needs, attention/focus, and responsibility. Albion Central Schoolhosted the All-County Sr. High Band, Jr. High Chorus, and Elementary Band on Feb. 1 & 2.The Sr. High Chorus, Jr. High Band, and Elementary Chorus rehearsed and performed atKendall on the weekend of March 1 & 2. It is a valuable experience for student-musiciansas they get to rehearse and perform difficult music, in a very select ensemble, under thedirection of a notable guest conductor. The following Albion students were chosen for All-County honor ensembles this winter:ALBION CENTRAL SCHOOL --- Achievement, Character, and Success for Life!Albion Students Compete atN.C.C.C. Tech Wars3Members of the Senior High All-County Band are pictured above. (l-r) Front Row:Rebecca Flanagan, Faith Bentley, Charlyne Olick, Amber Smarpat, Samantha Dumont, EmilyJoslyn, Brooke Chandler, Lydia Erakare, Meredith Patterson, Michael Patterson, Allen Sanford.Back Row: Alan Quintana, Ben Kirby, Zach McMullen, Nick McMullen, Ryan Haight, StevenStauss, William Grimble, Chris Reed and Jon Trembley. Missing from the photo are: TylerNeilans, Jenna Reigle.Jr. High (7-9) Band members were: Kelley Flanagan, Paula Hastings, Cheyenna Eagle,Bethany Bowman, Abigail Maines, Sarah Graham, Nathaniel Trembley, Matt Flanagan, JaredFearby, Kyle Thaine, Zachary Shaffer, Caitlin Malanowski, Dan Beam, Jillian Doyle, JackieQuintana, Emily Blanchard, Joe Madejski, Justin Robinson and Jared Hollinger.Elementary (5/6) Band members were: Nate Grammatico, Evan Allen, Jacob Ettinger,Kaylyn Holman, Melissa Barnosky, Jessica Schleede, Thomas Green, Zoe Chatfield, ArellaIves, Hailey Mack, Kirsten Struble, Hannah VanEpps, Matthew Kovaleski, Nicholas Sacco,Connor McQuillan, Trinity Allen, Evan Van Ameron and Justin Osburn.Fifteen middle and high school students from Albion recently visited Niagara CountyCommunity College to participate in their Tech Wars competition. The students competedin four engineering competitions: Bridge Design, CO2 race car, mousetrap-powered vehicleand the on-site mystery engineering challenge.The middle school bridge design competition involved students designing andengineering a bridge using 1/8” x 1/8” wood members to hold up to 100 lbs. over a 12-inchspan. Albion’s Hannah Yocum placed 25th out of 51 entries. The CO2 cars competitionchallenged students to design, build and race cars powered by CO2 cylinders. MichaylaKovaleski and Jackie Quintana’s CO2 car placed in the top 16 out of 100 entries. Themousetrap-powered vehicles event required students to create a vehicle using a standardVictor mousetrap with a wood base. These unique vehicles were judged on the distancethe vehicle traveled. Albion student, Tyler Nashburn’s vehicle traveled 38 feet during thecompetition. Cody Catlin teamed up with two Albion high school students, Nick Ettinger andAllen Sanford for the on-site mystery engineering challenge. The team placed 5th out of 18entries.Other middle school students competing in the event were: Josh Barnett, Josh Canham,Bailey Maier, Vivian Rivers, Morgan Rutkowski, Sam Slick, and Steve Zayac. The next TechWars was hosted at G.C.C. on March 14.ACS Senior Citizen Day!May 8, 2013 • 9:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.Please join us at the Albion High School Gym.For more information, please call Emily Wemmer at 589-2040 ext. 8414.Science Olympiad Team “Drops” the Egg!Members of the Senior High All-County Chorus are pictured above. (l-r) Front Row:Maria Ostafew, Faith Bentley, Charlyne Olick, Rebecca Flanagan, Lydia Erakare, Joyce LaLonde. Back Row: Elijah Martin, Alyssa Lawrence, David Stilwell, Johnathan Krieger, BenKirby, Kyle Worgo, Michael Karcz, Joshua Raymond, Ryan Haight, William Grimble, JordanGrimble, Kendra Morrison and Cassie Hoy. Missing from the photo are: Jenna Reigle, MaryMartin.Jr. High (7-9) Chorus members are: Hailey Bader, Matilda Erakare, Katie Rustay, EmilyCaldwell, Calandra Prentice, Yasmeen Shabazz, Catherine Thom, Joe Madejski, Nate Smith,Connor Zicari, Emilie Barleben, Michayla Kovaleski, Riley Seielstad, Samantha Hollenbeck,Kiara Smith, Kaitlin Zwifka, Andrew Moore, Evan Steier, Shannon Broda, Vivian Rivers,Emma Wadhams, Katie Mann, Zaria Rice, Angela Tarricone, Donato Rosario, Freeman Lattin,Bethany Bowman, Alyce Miller, Sarah Graham, Katy Perry, Cassie Casanova, Cheyenna Eagle,Caitlin Malanowski, Josh Metzler, Kyle Thaine, Ben Miller, Zach Shaffer and Nate Trembley.Elementary (5/6) Chorus: Evan Allen, Dyllan Beach, Chloe Bowman, Noah Duvall,Abby Fitzwater, Lauren Fitzwater, Grace Fournier, Anna Geldard, Nathaniel Grammatico,Thomas Green, Charity Henhawk, Thomas Hollenbeck, Kaylyn Holman, Kate Krieger, MatthewKovaleski, Lindsey Mann, Connor McQuillan, Aja Naro, Sierra Newton, Alana Petronio, TessPettit, Alex Rustay, Pedro Santigo, Jessica Schleede, Haley Smith, Kirsten Struble, JessicaTwardowski, Hannah Van Epps, Sean Weis and Lexi Wolck.spring break 2013Fri., March 29 - Fri. April 5No school for students.(L-R) Ricky Daniels and Noah Wadhams practice for Metric Mastery.The 6th-9th grade Albion Science Olympiad Team has been busy learning about a widerange of science topics in preparation for the regional competition in March. So far thisyear, the team has competed in an Egg Drop competition, Science Trivia contest and hascompleted the application process for the regional competition.In this year’s egg drop, students made a container (excluding glass, metal or wood) thatcaught a raw egg dropped from a height. The objective of the competition was to make yourcontainer short but soft so it would catch the egg without it breaking from the highest height.The winning container was made by Jacob Brower and was only 3 cm in height, but caughtan egg that was dropped 200 cm!In the tournament-style trivia contest teams advanced through a bracket to achampionship round. Winners Ryan Grandy and Evan Howard needed to have well-roundedscience knowledge because the questions came from all branches of science. Eventapplications help organize the team into groups of two for the biggest challenge of theseason, the regional competition against other Rochester area Middle Schools.The regional competition includes events like Anatomy, Crime Busters, Forestry,Meteorology, Mystery Architecture and many more. As you can imagine from the titles ofthe events, students need to incorporate knowledge from all disciplines of earth science,biology, chemistry, health science and technology in order to compete well. As Olympiadmember Cody Catlin says, “Science Olympiad is a great thing to get involved with. It is funand offers many events too. You practice before going to compete against other schools.I’ve done this for several years and plan to continue on.” Mr. Petrus said, “As the longtimecoach of the team, I really believe the Science Olympiad experience leaves a great impressionin the mind of students. In conversations with students after the end of the competition,they are challenged by the task and the competition and are exposed to a variety of differentactivities.”The LINK March 2013
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