[BurleyBulletin] April 16, 2007: Volunteer Lunch, STEP Team, DI Winners

Mon Apr 16 20:17:27 EDT 2007

The Burley Bulletin
April 16, 2007

Inside This Issue...
*        Submissions to the Burley Bulletin
*        Volunteer Luncheon This Thursday
*        STEP Team Update
*        Burley Students Going to Globals
*        Mark Your Calendar...
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Submissions to the Burley Bulletin
Please remember that the Burley Bulletin is a school-community newsletter. 
We welcome news about the many accomplishments of our terrific students. 
Unfortunately, I can only publish what is sent to me, I don’t have time to
be a reporter and editor!  So please keep me informed about student academic
achievements, our Burley sports teams, extracurricular activities, etc.  I
promise that I will send it out!  Just send your news to me at HYPERLINK
"mailto:shp33 at earthlink.net"shp33 at earthlink.net. 
Volunteer Luncheon This Thursday
Please remember that if you have volunteered for anything at Burley you are
invited to the Volunteer Luncheon this Thursday from 11:00 to 1:30 in the
Media Center – this means dance chaperones, band helpers, fundraiser folks,
book fair workers, EXPO Night volunteers, etc
  Also, the time for this
event has been extended so that more people can attend.  We want as many of
our volunteers to attend as possible so please remind your friends who are
less likely to check e-mail about this Thursday.  Thank you!
STEP Team Update
Our Burley STEP Team has been very busy this spring.  On Saturday, April
21st  the STEP Team is hosting a competition at Burley.  On April 28th they
will be competing in the 2007 Stomp the Yard Step Show Competition at the
HYPERLINK
"javascript:gener_seatven('http://www.ticketmaster.com/venueinfo/8264/','eve
ntd')"Landmark Theater in Richmond, VA beginning at 4:00 PM.  Tickets cost
$17 and are available at HYPERLINK
"http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/01003E699E1557F2?artistid=836069&majorcat
id=10005&minorcatid=0"Ticket Master (group rates are also available). For
more information, contact Ms. Getachew at 295-5101 or
lgetachew at k12albemarle.org
Burley Students Going to DI Globals
For the 4th year in a row, the Keswick Independent Destination ImagiNation
Team from our community will compete against students from across the USA
and more than 10 other countries and provinces, including teams from Turkey,
Brazil, Poland, China, Mexico and Guatemala. The four Burley students on
this team are Colin Mooney, Marshall Payne, Lauren Rakes and Lainie Taylor. 
James Bray, a student at The Peabody School, rounds out the team, along with
Team Manager (and Lauren’s mom) Beverly Rakes.  These students have once
again earned the right to take part in the competition of a lifetime at the
Destination ImagiNation® (DI) Global Finals May 23 – 26, 2007. 
It’s been a fun, tough, exciting and rewarding time for these kids as they
worked their way through several levels of competition – placing 1st at both
the regional and state tournaments – in order to win a shot at the biggest
challenge of them all – Destination ImagiNation’s Global Finals.   The 8,000
participants that proceed to Global Finals emerge from a field of 350,000
participants. 
The Destination ImagiNation program runs annually, and presents students
working in teams of up to seven with the opportunity to choose from five
mind-bending Team Challenges.  While each Team Challenge integrates a
variety of chances to learn by doing, Challenges usually feature one
prominent task, such as building a load-bearing structure, creating a
vehicle, writing a performance piece or exploring history
This year’s DI Challenges include: 
*         Direct Flight
*         CSI-DI
*         Round About Courage
*         Switching TraDItions
*         Card-DI-ology
The program also provides Instant Challenges in which the teams work
together to solve shorter Challenges within minutes.  Besides encouraging
and teaching critical thinking and teamwork, these Instant Challenges
promote the development of improvisational and quick-thinking skills. 
The Keswick Independent Team will be competing in the middle school division
of Round About Courage.  Destination ImagiNation® has been honing critical
thinking skills for 25 years and Keswick Independent will be competing with
over 8,000 students at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, TN.  For
more information visit:  www.divirginia.org or HYPERLINK
"http://www.destinationimagination.org/"www.destinationimagination.org. 
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Mark Your Calendar...
*         Thursday, April 19, 11:00 A.M. -1:30 P.M., Volunteer Luncheon,
Media Center
*         Saturday, April 21, Burley Marching Band in the Dogwood Festival
Parade
*         Tuesday, April 24, Author Sharon Draper visits Burley
*         Tuesday, April 24, 7:00 P.M., Parent Orientation for Parents of
5th Graders (Band tryouts at 5:15, Strings at 5:45, tours at 6:30)

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