Best Senior School

Congratulations to all Korah students who participated in the Regional Science Fair on March 27th-29th. All Korah students received ribbons for prizes in their senior categories. In addition, our school once again brought home the Alfred Askin Shield for the Best Senior School in the competition. The following students received additional awards:

Allister Smith: $75 Ontario Power Generation Award for Best in Earth and Environmental Sciences,
$50 Gary Rahn Memorial Award for the Best Natural History Project, and a $1000 scholarship to the University of Ottawa for the Best Senior Project.

Megan Garside: $100 Ontario Association of Medical Laboratories Award for the Top Laboratory Project,
$75 Don Wallace Memorial Award for the Best in Physical and Mathematical Sciences.

Amanda Giunti: $75 Great Lakes Forestry Centre Award.

Brianne Madonna: $100 University of Ontario Institute of Technology for the Most Innovative Use of Technology.

Way to go again, Colts!

Exciting news!

check out the teams website and videos of recent competition matches at www.knightsofalloy.ca!

The high school robotics team “The Knights of Alloy” just returned from the FIRST Robotics - Greater Toronto Regional, where they won the "Engineering Inspiration Award" (described below). This is the second highest award available at a regional competition.

Winning this award, qualifies the team to attend the FIRST Championship held in Atlanta Georgia on April 16 – 18^th! Over 300 teams from around the world will be there!

The Toronto event had 59 teams competing for this and other awards as well as on the playing field, where our team and robot finished 9th overall after regular play with a 6 win and 2 loss record. We advanced to the quarter finals, however did not move beyond.

To win the Engineering award, the students created a 3 minute video and made a presentation to a panel of judges who were truly amazed by the vast array of activities our team participates in, learning about and promoting Math, Science and Technology (Engineering) each year. Of significant note, was the students' involvement mentoring our elementary school Lego teams and running the Sault College competition. Our community partnerships with Tenaris, Sault College and local engineering firms were also applauded.

Funding for the trip is going to be a significant challenge, which the team will focus on over the next two weeks. Students will also be tweaking some of the robots mechanical parts to optimize performance in Atlanta.

ENGINEERING INSPIRATION AWARD - This award celebrates a team’s outstanding success in advancing respect and appreciation for engineering and engineers, both within their school as well as their community. Criteria include: the extent and inventiveness of the team’s efforts to recruit students to engineering, the extent and effectiveness of the team’s community outreach efforts, and the measurable success of those efforts.

FIRST – For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology

MUSTANG SALLY AT MOUNTAIN VIEW PUBLIC SCHOOL

Mustang Sally was invited to conduct a Character Education Day at Mountain View Public School on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 and oh, what a day it was. The morning classroom visits involved Mustang Sally musicians, in their leadership role, discussing character attributes
as they pertain to band members, their personal lives, and their school lives. Mustang Sally fielded many questions about auditions and Korah high school life. As well, the primary grades were treated to their very own concert in the gym and they were introduced to each
instrument and to a number of character attributes the band members use to work together (i.e., personal responsibility, perseverance, co-operation, teamwork, caring and fairness). Students of Mountain View showed their own good character, by being very keen listeners during the morning presentations, and by being so very friendly, helpful, and polite throughout the day.

The afternoon performance to the school included several features. Kaylee Raynor, one of our vocalists, spoke about the importance of following your dreams using character attributes such as perseverance, courage, and self-respect. Katie Stafford, a student at Mountain View showed her courageous side by willingly coming up to the stage to help our Mustang Sally vocalist, Kaylee, sing “Walkin’ on Sunshine.” Way to go Katie! Another highlight was the premiere performance of our new song called “Character Ed.” The song sheet (lyrics and music) was
presented to Mr. Bell and the school. A power-point presentation with slides related to several character attributes, accompanied each song in the set and a video, Angel, produced by Sir George Ross students and staff, permission of Thames Valley District School Board, was
viewed. The video is about bullying, the importance of standing up for the victim, and the importance of speaking out against bullying. Mustang Sally’s own vocalist, Jenna Train, sang the song “Angel” by Sarah McLachlan to accompany the video. Many thanks go to Mr. Bell and
teachers and students for such a warm, enthusiastic welcome, and for being such gracious hosts for the day. We had so much fun together.

Student Of The Month

Missouri Stoycheff - Math
Jesse Merelaid - French
Brittany Lillie - Geography

Aaron Dodds - Music

Wrestling

Korah had 6 members qualify as medalists at NOSSA and advance to OFSAA.
Wylie Middleton and Tasha Doroodian placed in the top 10, Chelsey Maitland and Cherie Behrens placed in the top 18. Aaron Forbes and Dylan Pigeau also qualified to compete at OFSAA

DUKE of EDINBURGH AWARD CEREMONY 2009

BRONZE AWARD winners

The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award is a program that was designed to challenge young people between the ages of fourteen and twenty-five years to reach for their best. The Awards are designed in ascending order of achievement: Bronze, Silver and Gold levels. Each level provides for training, achievement and recognition for good citizenship. The programme aims to broaden interest and deepen experience by embracing a wide variety of adventurous, cultural and practical activities. Korah Collegiate’s Duke of Edinburgh Award Ceremony was held on Thursday March 5^th 2009 in the Cafeteria.

BRONZE AWARD

The following students were honoured at this ceremony for completing all requirements for their Bronze Award. These students completed a minimum of 15 hours of service, the Bronze expedition, 6 months on learning a skill and at least 30hrs of fitness in 15 weeks. Ms Wanda McQueen, Chair of the Algoma District School Board presented the following students their awards.

Haley Allen,

Shannon Kainula ,

Sarah McBain,

Caitlyn Campbell,

Katie Lennox,

Jesse Merelaid,

Miranda Ferris,

Eric McAlister,

Erin Sherwood,

Samantha Iacoe,

Chris McAllister,

Megan Sherwood,

Adrianna Ivey.

SILVER AWARD

Students that have completed an additional 30 hrs of service, the Silver Expedition, skill development over 6 months and 40 hrs of fitness over 20 weeks were honoured for completing their Silver Award. Mr. Jim Steele a long time volunteer on the expeditions presented awards to:

Laura Christie,

Elyse McCarthy,

Gabe Wetzel,

Olivia Christie,

Michelle Millar,

Derek MacInnis,

Yi Quan

A group of students were recognized in the fall of this year in Toronto at Queen’s Park at the Silver Duke of Edinburgh Award ceremony. The following students were honoured.

Erik Allen,

Ian Roney,

Paul Bursche,

Eric Sparrow,

Chaney McCaig

Allister Smith,

Dwight Newton,

Vivienne Steele,

Hilary Ortiz,

Kaitlyn Teller

These students were presented with a special award from David Orazietti M.P.P.presented by Mr. Bob Cole These students are now working on completing the requirements of the Gold Award. They most recently completed their Gold expedition in September 2008.

GOLD AWARD

The Gold Award requires an additional 60hrs of service, the Gold Expedition, skill development over 12 months, 50 hrs of fitness over 25 weeks and a residential project.

Hilary Ortiz and Karina Seto were honoured at the ceremony for the successful completion of the Gold Award. Hilary received her gold pin form Mr Bob Cole, Principal of Korah Collegiate. Karina Seto was not able to attend as she is away at University. Hilary and Karina will receive their award at a special ceremony from a member of the Royal family on their next visit to Canada .

Group photo

Introducing your 2009 Robotics Team and their competition robot.