A day in Communites May, 29th 2013

Today in Communities Mr. Schinkten from Whitetales Unlimited is coming in to interview the three finalists for his magazine.  The three finalists are sophomore Kyra Eierman, sophomore Taylor Captain and freshamn Cassie Buelow.  Also yesterday Emily Daun got her paper published by Tru-U.  Tomorrow new principal Mrs. Schleicher will interview the five finalist that have the chance to be published on the Communities webiste!

Leader in the making Nick Kappell, lead the class today in substitute of Mr. Schinkten. He instructed and informed the students of his project to help bring a more sustainable school. By setting up North's first aquaponics. A system of growing and harvesting food using plants and fish. He further showed the green house to the students discussing the new construction plans. In the image below is students assisting in cleaning up the greenhouse trays. Nick has gone above and beyond the sustainability unit and greatly demonstrates the goal of communities; to build a stronger and better community.

Thursday May 2nd 2013

Today was a field day. One group went water testing with Mr. Schinkten. They went to Menominee Park beach and the pond at South Park. They found various things like pH and conductivity using probes (which were purchased using money from our grant) and others took water samples to bring back to the lab. In the lab at UWO, students tested for nitrates, phosphates and turbidity. They also set up a bacteria lab which the next group will be able to look at. This was just a "practice run" and students will be going water testing again in the future.