The food service staff members from Sodexo at Monroe Public Schools will hold a garage sale at the Riverside Early Learning Center, 77 N. Roessler St., Monroe, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, May 30. Profits from the sale will go to the Gleaners Food Bank for its back pack food program which benefits a number of Monroe Public Schools students. When attending the sale, please approach from either W. Elm Ave. or N. Roessler St., since the Roessler St. bridge is closed to through traffic.
The 2015 Monroe High School Baccalaureate Service will be held in the MHS Auditorium at 7 p.m., Thursday, May 28. All 2015 graduates from Monroe High School and from any other Monroe County School are invited to participate.
This year’s keynote speaker will be Pastor Tony Lynn of CrossPointe Church. Special songs will be sung by Myrna Allen, Jillien Mills and Senior Sydney Stewart, who also is the class president of the 2015 class. Graduates Kyla Smith and Tyler Peterson and Dean of Students Stephannie Cherry will address the Class of 2015.
All graduates who will participate should line up in the hallway outside of the auditorium at 6:30pm., wearing their caps and gowns.
The Empowerment Project, a 54-minute documentary about “ordinary women doing extraordinary things” will be shown at 6 p.m., Saturday, May 30, in the River Raisin Centre for the Arts on S. Monroe St., Monroe. It is the first time the documentary has been shown in Michigan.
The showing, which also includes a live question-and-answer time with the film’s two directors, is presented by Waterloo Elementary School and sponsored by the Monroe office of Old National Bank.
“People in Monroe County are fortunate to have the opportunity to see this life-changing documentary,” said Waterloo Elementary School Principal Lisa McLaughlin, who led the efforts to bring the documentary and two of its directors to Monroe. “Although the film is about women making a difference and is meant to be an inspiration to girls, there is something in the film for everyone.”
Mrs. McLaughlin said that having the two filmmakers, Sarah Moshman and Debra Michelle Cook, in Monroe to speak with the audience after the documentary and to participate in discussions, makes the upcoming event even more memorable.
Student tickets are $2 and adult tickets are $5. They are available in advance by stopping at Waterloo Elementary School, 1933 S. Custer Rd., or the Monroe Public Schools Administration Building at 1275 N. Macomb St. They also can be purchased at the door, if they still are available.
Disappointed by the way the media portrayed women, in 2012 filmmakers Moshman and Cook and three fellow female filmmakers embarked on a 7,000-mile one-month trek across the U.S. from Los Angeles to New York City. On their journey, they found women who had been successful, and then talked to them about how they had achieved success in their lives. Their central question: “What would you have done if you were not afraid to fail?”
Over that time period they interviewed 17 different women, including an astronaut, a beauty pageant queen, a Navy four-star admiral, the founder of Girls on the Run, an architect, a pilot, a chef and a pro athlete, among others.
The fruits of their labors? This documentary video and a sense of tremendous accomplishment.
“The mission of this film is simple – girls of ANY age can do and be anything they may want. We have only the limits we put on ourselves and if we start to support each other and showcase some strong female role models then I believe girls will truly know they are empowered and that we can start to change the conversation,” Ms. Moshman said.
Children can learn skills they may need to survive in the wild at the SurvivorKids Day Camp and the Advanced SurvivorKids Camp, offered by Monroe Public Schools this summer at the Knabusch Math and Science Center in Bolles Harbor. Classes are offered to students from 1st grade through 6th grade.
Four one-week long sessions are offered starting June 22 with young students in the morning and older students in the afternoon. An “advanced” camp also will be offered the week of July 27 with younger campers in the morning and older campers in the afternoon.
“The Knabusch Center is one of the learning community’s gems and works perfectly for camps like these,” said SurvivorKids camp developer and leader Nicole Shaughnessy, who also teaches science at Monroe High School. “We have put together a week of activities which includes instruction in fishing, tracking, boating, identification, survival skills, campfire cooking, wetlands and archery, which is offered only to the older kids.”
The weeklong camps run June 22-26; July 6-10; July 13-17 and July 20-24. Junior campers, or those in 1st through 3rd grades, attend daily from 8 a.m. through 11:30 a.m. For the seniors campers, 4th through 6th grade, session run 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. daily.
Advance SurvivorKids Camp is designed for those who have gone through a previous SurvivorKids Camp, including this year. Besides expanding on the basic skills shared with campers in the SurvivorKids Camps, the advance classes also include such skills as orientation, fire-building and conservation skills. Those sessions run the week of July 27. Junior campers attend in the morning, 8 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., with the senior campers attending 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Cost of the camp is $95 and the camps are open to any Monroe County student in that age group. Need-based scholarships also are available for Monroe Public Schools’ students. Registration forms will be available (starting May 26) at each of the Monroe Public Schools’ elementary schools or at the district’s Administration Building at 1275 N. Macomb St. Parents with questions can call 734-265-3551.
Members of the General Motors Romulus Powertrain Professional Manager’s Network hosted several career skills sessions at Orchard Center High School recently, sharing tips about how to successfully interview for jobs. A number of students had never applied for a job or were preparing to interview for summer time employment. GM engineer Cindy Letellier shared information with students in the classroom of Mr. Chris Dominguez about how best to present themselves in interviews. Nicole Carter put three OCHS students through a mock interview so they could understand the types of questions an interviewer may ask. The Professional Managers’ Network does community service projects as representatives of the company. Mrs. Carter had been an assistant at OCHS before leaving for GM in the last year. Photo courtesy Monroe Public Schools. May 19, 2015
Monroe High School junior Darian Reed was a top-10 nationalist finalist in the Business Professionals of America (BPA) National Leadership conference held recently in Anaheim, Cal. Darian, who also is president of the Monroe High School BPA chapter, earned his national finalist medal in Access Database. Active in robotics at MHS, he also plans to run for state BPA office next year. “Darian is a fine young man and did a wonderful job in the national competition to rank as highly as he did. We’re very proud of him. He was a fine representative of Monroe High School,” said his BPA advisor and MHS teacher Mrs. Joni Weaks.
Monroe High School will host its MHS Senior Awards Ceremony at 7 p.m., Wednesday. The ceremony is the annual event where the school celebrates the students for the effort, hard work and integrity it has taken for them achieve such a great accomplishment. The ceremony will take place in the MHS Auditorium with overflow seating and a large-screen theater-type screen in the commons. A number of different awards will be presented and the evening includes the announcement of the Class of 2015’s Top 100 and the initial distribution of the Top 100 books.
The Education Foundation of Monroe Public Schools has awarded six mini-grants totaling nearly $4,000 to various programs in Monroe Public Schools. Two awards went to teachers at Waterloo Elementary School, two to teachers at Arborwood Elementary and one each to Custer Elementary and Monroe Middle School. Roughly half of the money awarded went to engineering and STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) programs.
Grants were awarded to these teachers and groups:
Ronnie Riggs and Sharon Thomas, Waterloo Elementary -- Funding the purchase of 12 STEM kits to be used at summer STEAM camps at Waterloo. The camps will target Waterloo students who have demonstrated a high level of interest in the STEAM curriculum.
Kelly Davis, Kari Tackett and Melissa Bell, Custer Elementary – Provides for the purchase of 15 reusable simple machine sets and a simple machine activity pack. Custer students will be able to use the sets to explore engineering concepts while building teamwork and communications skills. Teachers will be encouraged to integrate use into the curriculum and families will have access to the machine kits during Family Engineering nights.
Kyle Reed, Waterloo Elementary – 16 MaKey-MaKey sets will be purchased to allow students to create electronically controlled inventions using basic circuitry and software. These would be used as an enrichment activity in robotics and as a separate class for summer learning at Waterloo.
Scott Hoppert, Monroe Middle School – Purchase of popular books and rolling file carts to create mobile libraries that can be moved from classroom to classroom to facilitate a sustained silent reading program during Trojan Family Time at MMS.
Katie Collins and Kelly Levicki, Arborwood North Elementary – A two-year membership for two classrooms to a website which allows students to read books on-line, have teachers print out books if the student does not have internet access at home, and which allows parents to take a more active role in their child’s reading improvements. The program also allows the teacher to monitor student progress, even in the summer.
Chessica Oetjens, Arborwood Campus – Funds the development of a “MakerSpace” where this creation station will include various 21st century tools which the students can use to make various items. The items to be purchased also can be used over-and-over by students to make many different items.
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Two outdoor events planned for today have been postponed due to the weather. The Ribbon Run at Raisinville and the Manor Field Day both were scheduled for today but have been postponed. Manor Field Day has been rescheduled for May 27. A new Raisinville date has not yet been determined but will be soon and will be communicated to parents and staff.