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The Music School of Wilmington is now offering Hoop Fitness Classes taught by Kelly Jo Stull who was recently featured in Wrightsville Beach Magazine's August issue.

You are invited to an *FREE* open house hosted by Kelly Jo Stull.
Kelly Jo, and a few of her associates will be demonstrating Hoop Fitness class techniques on September 9th at 7:00 pm at The Music School.

Refreshments will be provided as well. Please see the attachment provided with this email for additional Benefits of Hoop Dance and Fitness.

 

New Hanover County Schools' Arts Education Supervisor
Honored by Cameron Art Museum

Georgeann Haas, Arts Education Supervisor for New Hanover County
Schools, is being honored by the Cameron Art Museum, located at 3201 South 17th Street, Wilmington, NC. Her painting, High Stakes, is
currently featured in the exhibition Kaleidoscope: Changing Views of the Permanent Collection.

The exhibition features paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures,
photographs, furniture, decorative arts and other objects drawn from the museum's permanent collection. The display will change throughout the year, May 15, 2009, through May 9, 2010, to allow additional works from the collection to be exhibited and to elicit new, unexpected associations between works of art.

The Cameron Art Museum is dedicated to arts education, and presents
exhibitions and public programs of both historical and contemporary
significance. The Museum's permanent collection includes work by artists of national and international significance, including works by North Carolina artists.

For more information, contact Georgeann Haas at 910-254-4290.

 

New Hanover County Schools Take Top Honors at

State Science Olympiad Tournament

Recently, the North Carolina State Science Olympiad Tournament was held on the campus of the North Carolina State University. Approximately 2,500 middle and high school students from across the state competed in 46 different events. These challenging and motivational events were well balanced between the various science disciplines of biology, earth science, chemistry, physics and technology. Seven New Hanover County

Schools participated and the winners are as follows:

Myrtle Grove Middle School:

Alexei Kouminov and Alex Luke

3rd Place Scrambler - Technology & Engineering

Roland-Grise Middle School:

Bethany Ao and Kammy Liu

3rd Place Bio-Process Lab - Life, Personal and Social Science

Bethany Ao and Aiwei Yan

6th Place Disease Detectives - Life, Personal and Social Science

Hoggard High School:

Evylena Kliassov and Sam Spaulding

1st Place Picture This - Inquiry and Nature of Science

Nathan Hansen and Jason Wang

2nd Place Remote Sensing - Earth and Space Science

Patrick Edmundsen and Alexandra Geiger

3rd Place Ecology - Life, Personal and Social Science

Vijay Gadani and Eric Whitmire

3rd Place Junkyard - Technology and Engineering

Nathan Hansen and Gregg Godwin

4th Place Sounds of Music - Technology & Engineering

Gregg Godwin and Sam Spaulding

4th Place Forensics - Physical Science & Chemistry

Alexandra Geiger and Patrick Edmundsen

4th Place Cell Biology - Life, Personal & Social Science

Laney High School:

David Hearn and Jared Layne

1st Place Ecology - Life, Personal and Social Science

For achieving first place, Evylena Kliassov, Sam Spaulding, David Hearn and Jared Layne have been offered a $2,500 scholarship to the North Carolina State University.

The Science Olympiad is an international non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of science education, creating a passion for learning science and providing recognition for outstanding achievement in science education by both students and teachers. These goals are accomplished through classroom activities, research, professional development workshops and the encouragement of intramural, district, regional, state, national and international tournaments.

Deadline: June 15, 2009 (Begin Online Nomination)

Youth Service America Announces New Awards Program for Young Female Social
Entrepreneurs

Youth Service America has announced the launch of the first annual Gladys
Marinelli Coccia Awards, which recognize two female social entrepreneurs
between the ages of 14 and 17 whose initiatives serve the common good. The
awards were created in memory of Gladys Coccia, who began her
entrepreneurial career when she was a young girl in West Virginia and later
became a successful businesswoman in Washington, D.C.

To be eligible, nominees must be girls between the ages of 14 and 17 (as of
December 31, 2009) who reside in the United States and have their own social
enterprise. Special consideration will be given to nominees from West
Virginia and metropolitan Washington, D.C. Self-nominations are accepted.

The award includes $2,000 for the winner's social enterprise, travel to and
registration at YSA's Youth Service Institute, an invitation to serve on the
executive board of Girls Helping Girls, and access to YSA's resources to
support and expand social enterprise.

The deadline to initiate an online nomination is June 15, 2009. The deadline
to complete and submit a nomination is June 30, 2009.

Complete nomination materials, including an eligibility quiz and nomination
form, are available at the YSA Web site.

Contact:

http://ysa.org/MyYSA/YSAContent/YSANews/tabid/219/articleType/ArticleView/ar
ticleId/147/TheGladysMarinelliCocciaAwards.aspx