GOOD MORNING AND HAPPY FRIDAY!
Graham High School Team Excels in the STELLARXPLORERS Competition! This year 133 teams from across the country have participated in this competition. The GHS team consisting of Connor Wolfe (Captain), Smith Graham, Jonah Qualls, Garrett Gatlin and Nicolas Saunders has finished in the top 30 nationally and will be competing in the Semi-Finals on February 24-26. A top 10 finish in the Semi-Finals will earn the team a spot in the National Finals being held in Colorado Springs, CO in April.
The STELLARXPLORERS competition is sponsored by the Air Force Association to inspire and attract high school students to pursue studies and careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) through a challenging, space system design competition involving all aspects of system development and operation with a spacecraft/payload focus. Additionally, it provides the students with an opportunity to understand operations in outer space and hands-on experience in planning and executing space missions.
Thanks a ton to Mrs. Michelle Lowrey for coaching this group of students!
Lady Blues and Graham Steers vs Burkburnett at GHS tonight! I encourage you all to come out and support our student athletes. Tonight will be Senior Night for the Lady Blues.
Best of luck to all the GISD Students at Fort Worth and San Angelo Stock Shows!
Legislative Update- Contacting Our House Representative Member and State Senator. Earlier this week, while attending the TASA Midwinter Conference, I had the opportunity spend a day at the State Capitol learning more about effective strategies for communicating with our legislators. Here are a few tips:
- Avoid the use of a form letter. They get very little to no attention from the legislator or his/her staff.
- When writing a letter to the legislator, make it personal…share how something is directly related to your classroom or to a particular student or group of students.
- Email is effective. Keep it personal, brief and to the point.
- In both letters and emails, bulleted lists seem to work well.
- When sending them facts, make sure they are indeed FACTS.
- Texas Tweets- 92% of the Texas House & Senate are on Twitter.
- Our House Rep, Drew Springer is on Twitter- @DrewSpringer
- Capitol office: E2.706
- Office phone: 512-463-0526
- District phone- 940-580-1770
- Our State Senator, Craig Estes is on Twitter- @EstesforTexas
- Capitol office: 3E.18
- Capitol phone: 512-463-0130
- District phone: 940-689-0191
- In my opinion, we need to directly ask our legislators to be “Hard No” regarding Vouchers, Education Savings Accounts, and Education Tax Credits. The Texas Constitution is clear regarding education in Article 7, Section 1:
“SUPPORT AND MAINTENANCE OF AN EFFICIENT SYSTEM OF PUBLIC FREE SCHOOLS. A general diffusion of knowledge being essential to the preservation of the liberties and rights of the people, it shall be the duty of the Legislature of the State to establish and make suitable provision for the support and maintenance of an efficient system of public free schools.”
Make Grand Choices
Once upon a time there was a very mean king who ruled his kingdom with an iron fist.
One day he received some very distressing news--a commoner was in love with his daughter, the princess. The next day he received even more distressing news--the princess was also in love with the commoner.
Well the king had to put a stop to this. He knew that the only way he could permanently end this relationship was to execute the commoner. So the king charged the commoner with a crime that he did not commit. The commoner pled innocent.
As was the custom in this kingdom, fates would determine guilt or innocence.
The next day the king and the commoner were in the town's square as hundreds of townspeople looked on.
The king held out two envelopes. Inside one was a card that read "innocent." Inside the other was a card with the word "guilty." The commoner had to choose one.
The commoner was a very wise young man and he knew the king wanted to execute him no matter what. He knew that the king had the word "guilty" written on both cards.
The commoner carefully chose one of the envelopes. He slowly opened it. Read the card. And then he suddenly started jumping up and down with joy while he was shouting "I'm innocent. I'm innocent. I'm innocent."
As he was excitedly jumping up and down, the young man ripped the card into very small pieces and swallowed it.
One of the king's magistrates screamed to him, "How do we know you are innocent? You swallowed the card."
The young man said "Oh, that's easy--just read what's on the king's card."
Have a nice day and make GRAND choices!
Corny Joke of the Day
What do you call a belt with a watch on it? (Scroll down for the answer.)
A waist of time.
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