Regional Champions

Congratulations to the members of the envirothon team who won the regional competition this past weekend. The team will be participating in the Provincial competition next week.

Atlanta World Competition

The team finished 34th out of 87 teams in their division. They did not move into the finals, however all are proud of their accomplishments and excited to have competed with 350 of the best teams from around the world.
"Holly - The Wickett Robot" performed very well!

The Algoma District School Board robotics team won a silver medal at the Waterloo FIRST Regional Robotics Competition.
See link to the teams web site for more information.

Art Circuit

Mrs. Schliephacke and some of her art students were in attendance at the opening reception of Art Circuit art show of local high school students art work at the Art Gallery of Algoma.Top picture: Paula D'Agostino and her art work entitled Darren. Two above: Shinea Hansen, Grade 12 and her art work Miyavi Adoration.Above: Ms. Schliephacke and Sadie Puddister with Sadie's art work entitled No One's Baby.

Badminton

The Korah Badminton team had an excellent showing these past 2 days at the City championships that were held here at our school. Our grade nines combined to capture the midget division overall, as did our grade tens in order to win the overall junior title and our grade 11 and 12's combined to win the overall senior division. Our Colts as a team for the 18th year in a row, yes that’s right, 18 years straight won the overall badminton aggregate championship which is a combination of boys and girls, midget, junior and senior divisions. Way to go Colts!!!
Our top individual placings went as follows:

Midget:
Joey Lucio - 2nd in singles
Rachel Ivey - 1st in singles
Kala Studens - 2nd in singles
Taylor Hammond and Hao dong Zhou - 1st in doubles
Tony Ziccarelli and Brad Vandordunk - 2nd in doubles
Abigail Fogg and Evelyn Steele - 1st in doubles

Junior:
Josh Fritz - 1st in singles
Adam Hopfgardner - 2nd in singles
Adri Ivey - 1st in singles
Willie Poll - 2nd in singles
Matt Maidra and Mitchell Nisbett - 1st in doubles
Ariel Harriman and Rebecca Rowe - 2nd in doubles
Chris McAllister and Sam Iacoe - 1st in mixed

Senior:
Ian Roney - 1st in singles
Suzy Yan - 1st in singles
Nicole Maione - 2nd in singles
Jarrett Cummings and Dustin Grondin - 1st in doubles
Riley Hogan and Haley Allen - 1st in doubles
Erik Allen and Vivienne Steele - 2nd in mixed

The 28 individuals just mentioned will be continuing on to North Bay for the NOSSA Championships next week in North Bay. Congratulations goes out to the whole entire team on a great job. Without the effort of each athlete, our 18th consecutive aggregate championship would not have been possible.

Student of the month

Hao Dong Zhou - Health/Phys. Ed
Gabrielle Fogg - Art
Josh Cerasuolo - Business
Chelsie Spadafora - Family Studies

Composition

Photo compositon sites.
http://www.photographytips.com/page.cfm/6
http://photoinf.com/General/Gary_Stanley/An_Eye_for_Composition.html
http://photoinf.com/General/Robert_Berdan/Composition_and_the_Elements_of_Visual_Design.htm


Food for Thought:
here are a few good review points to remember each time you compose an image.

1. Make sure your horizon line is level.

2. Look for distracting elements in your viewfinder that might take away for an otherwise excellent composition.

3. If you want sharp front-to-back detail, make sure you have enough depth of field.

4. Look for things in the composition that will allow you to use the basic design elements of line, shape, texture and form.

5. Look for good foreground subjects to add that three-dimensional look to the composition.


Give these few suggestions a try as you develop you own eye for composition.

Character Ed. Posters

Student Of The Month

Hao Dong Zhou - Health/Phys. Ed

Gabrielle Fogg - Art

Josh Cerasuolo - Business

Chelsie Spadafora - Family Studies

Outdoor Activities

New this year at Korah is the course Outdoor Activities. This course focuses on the development of a personalized approach to healthy active living through participation in a variety of outdoor activities that have the potential to engage students’ interest throughout their lives. Students will develop and implement personal physical fitness plans. In addition, they will be given opportunities to refine their decision-making, conflict-resolution, and interpersonal skills, with a view to enhancing their mental health and their relationships with others.

Pictured above students build Quinzhees to escape the elements. Students also went ice fishing at Marks Bay on the St. Mary's River.

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.

Little Shop of Horrors

The talent or our students is awesome. Thanks to Denine Williams for her hours of work directing the show and the many staff and volunteers. The plant and set created by Ian Ganton is impressive and the organization and coordination of the stage and sound by Megan Morley and Paul Sawchyn has been fantastic. Thank you also to Bobbi Gasparelli, David Young, our student teacher, and Greg Ryckman for their help and musical talents in the pit band.

MUSTANG SALLY CHARACTER EDUCATION AT GRAND VIEW PUBLIC SCHOOL

Mustang Sally was invited to conduct a Character Education Day at
Grand View Public School on Wednesday, February 18, 2009. Students
showed their own good character by coming into the gym to lend a
helping hand when Mustang Sally members were setting up seating and
again, later, when the seating had to be disassembled at the end of
the day. Many thanks to all those hardworking students whose teamwork
made the job seem effortless.

The morning classroom visits involved Mustang Sally musicians, in
their leadership roles, 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. 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). The attribute of fairness was stressed since it
is the attribute being emphasized for February. Mustang Sally members
spoke about how important it is to be fair in the band and gave the
example of how each of them has a solo and that other members do not
compete, but work to blend in and enhance each other's solo
performance, because it is only fair to let each have a solo
spotlight.

The afternoon performance to the whole school included songs to match
character attributes, accompanied by a power-point presentation with
slides related to the attributes, and a video, "Angel," produced by
Sir George Ross students and staff, with the permission of Thames
Valley District School Board. 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 Mrs. Dolcetti, Mrs. Lucio, teachers and
students for such a warm, enthusiastic welcome and for being such
gracious hosts for the day.

1st Place Winner!

Randy Roy-city of SSM waste diversion supervisor, Anna Boyonoski & Charlie Thomlinson - "Bag This" Challenge Committee Members, Mr. DiBerardino and Mr. Cole.
Mr. DiBerardino is wearing a jacket made out of reusable bags and signed by David Suzuki.

Andrea Mitchell receives a certificate of Merit for winning the competition from Anna Boyonski

Certificate for first place for the "Create Your Own Challenge" School Challenge where Korah submitted a list of initiatives that they are involved in to help reduce, reuse and recycle.

Korah took top honours in the highshcool division in the city's "Bag This" School Challenge. In a ceremony at the school on Friday morning Korah was awarded $1000 along with various certificates by Randy Roy, the city’s Waste Diversion Supervisor, along with members of the Shopper Loyalty “Bag This” committee members Charlie Thomlinson and Anna Boyonoski.

The competition which was kicked off October 1 was designed to reduce the number of plastic bags sent to landfill and to encourage and promote the use of reusable bags. The competition was made up of six challenges.

The problem with the plastic bags at the landfill is not the amount of space they take up but they cause problems by flying all over and “littering the landfill,” according to Roy. He says that landfill fill staff spend hours trying to pick up the bags and those that get away can end up anywhere “They don’t stop blowing”. Roy cites a recent news story about a tortoise choking on a plastic bag. “You don’t know where that bag came from.”

Thanks to this initiative Roy says 225,000 bags were sent to recycling. The bags were sent to GTA Recycling where then to a company that turns the bags into decking. The bags were collected between October 1, 2008 and January 31, 2009 and totalled 2,019 kilograms. “I thought I would be able to pick up them up in my Ford Focus” said Roy “but there were just too many.”

Charlie Thomlinson told the students that 4783 students, parents and families from across the city took part in challenge, 18 schools participated including two that were late to project, and with the bags collected 11 backyard decks measuring 3 meters by 4 meters could be constructed.

Korah Collegiate & Vocational School has helped keep Sault Ste. Marie healthy and beautiful by
- Reporting on what their school is doing currently to address waste reduction, reuse and recycling (3Rs)
- Providing suggestions that reinforce and promote continuous awareness of waste reduction and environmental issues.

Practice, practice, practice

The robot is complete and on the way to its first competition in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and then to another competition in Mississauga, Ontario. This year the robot
is competing to gather balls off a low friction playing surface intended to simulate the
surface of the moon, and then shoot baskets? The robot which is able to score the
most points wins. The challenge is complicated by the fact that other robots are trying
to knock it off course and prevent it from winning. Students had to design and build their
own robot. The technical, engineering and programming skills used in this competition
are impressive. Thank you to Steve Burmaster, Jon Budau and Rob Marshall from AHHS,
for leading this team. Thanks also to those who helped from the community. Joe Edder
and Craig Mock from TENERIS, Cal Oswin from EPOH, Mike Aikens and John Larue
from ESSAR and Al Gooderham from Sault College. This year’s robot was dedicated to
Holly Wickett and named Holly the “Wickett” robot.

Drama Posters

Posters above created by Paula D'Agostino and Danielle Hodgson in Communication Technology.

Have A Heart Campaign

Are you aware that 73,000 Canadians are HIV positive, and almost 30% of them don't know they're infected. Do you want to help? Well you can! Stay tuned for more information on the Have A Heart Campaign.

Announcements

Valentines Day is coming fast, and there's no better gift than roses! Come on out and support Water For Life in the front foyer at lunch by buying roses for that special someone! Roses are $3.00 each and are only being sold from Monday to Thursday.

Korah Collects over 27,500 Books to Help Africa

Grade 11 Korah student, Amber Levesque, first heard about Invisible Children’s "Schools for Schools" book drive in the fall. She immediately enlisted the help of Korah teacher Megan Morley and started promoting the program.
In a few short months, Korah students, staff, parents and members of the public donated between 27,500 and 28,000 books, which are being sent to Better World Books. Although Amber hoped to reach a goal of 30,000 books, she was excited to see Korah collect the thousands and thousands they did. Free shipping was offered to schools which collected over 10,000 books. Better World Books either sends the books to impoverished areas or sells them, with all proceeds going toward new books in Africa.
One student from each of the three schools collecting the most books will be given a free trip to help build a school in Uganda. Korah is in the running for one of the top three spots and will find out if they qualify in a couple of weeks.

Eat Smart! Award of Excellence

Above: Dr. Northan the Medical Officer of Health presents the "Eat Smart Award" to our principal Ms. Wickett and Ms. Tucker our cafeteria manager. Korah students assist in the ribbon cutting ceremony that was held Tuesday, January 20th.

Engine Donation

Thank you very much to Mr. J. Eder for his generous donation of the Ford engine on a stand with gauges to the Korah Transportation Technology area. This learning tool will greatly benefit the teachers and students in seeing how a working engine operates.

Co op Fair January 2009

Mustang Sally visits Queen Elizabeth School

Mustang Sally celebrated character education at Queen Elizabeth on Wednesday, January 14, 2009, a school so very close to the heart of one of our vocalists – Kaylee Raynor, who is a grade eight student there. Kaylee not only sang, but told students about the importance
of having the courage to follow their dreams, just as she has by being in Mustang Sally. The junior kindergarten class was treated to their very own concert where Mustang Sally musicians introduced students to different instruments. As well, some musicians went to grades 5/6,
6/7, 7/8 and grade 8 classes to discuss the process of becoming a part of Mustang Sally, and how character attributes (honesty, responsibility, integrity, cooperation, respect, perseverance, caring, leadership) are demonstrated in the band. An attribute of special focus was that of responsibility. Leo Moore and Johnee Whalen talked about the negative effects of irresponsibility on teamwork in the band and the importance of taking responsibility to attend all rehearsals, and practice individually.
Students were also informed about high school life and given opportunities to ask questions about it. A very special performance was given to Mustang Sally by Mr. Collin's class – they performed an opera that they had composed and written lyrics for,
previously arranged for a performance at the Kiwanis Community Theatre in December. The afternoon offered a special story with musical accompaniment to the school assembly, called A Chance to Shine followed by a set of 12 of Mustang Sally's favourite Character Education songs. Special thanks to the fine staff and students for their hospitality and to Mrs. Atkinson (Principal) and Mrs. McTaggart (Vice-Principal) for their luncheon arrangements and for their very warm welcome.

An apple a day and Miss Wickett goes away.

Algoma Public Health is pleased to announce that Korah Collegiate will receive the Eat Smart! Award of Excellence.

Principal Holly Wickett is so pleased that Korah has met the high standards of Eat Smart! that she now plans to retire on a high note. Her task list is now complete. Join us as Wickett leaves her apple core on a healthy high school. Eat Smart! is a provincial Award of Excellence program that recognizes schools’ efforts to create healthier environments for students. To receive the Eat Smart! Award, schools must meet and maintain three standards: Nutrition Standard, Food Safety Standard and Smoke-Free Standard.

Where: Korah Collegiate - Cafeteria
636 Goulais Avenue Sault Ste. Marie, ON P6C 5A7

When: Tuesday January 20th , 2008
11:30 a.m.