Character Education

Tuesday, February 16 to Friday, February 19, 2010

Tuesday, February 16 – Anti-bullying cupcakes for sale outside cafeteria

Wednesday, February 17 – Pink t-shirt day

Thursday, February 18 – Hand print on the wall day

Friday, February 19 – Errol Lee concert during period 2

Thank you to Ms.Fitzpatrick for all of her work organizing the Character (Anti-Bullying) Week for students and staff. Increasing not only awareness, but a level of further commitment to eliminating bullying from our school and community was well received.

Photos by L. Steinwedel and K. White.

Free Concert

Mustang Sally will be performing a FREE concert Saturday, February 20th at Searchmont Resort in the main lodge. Come share an afternoon of skiing or boarding or just enjoy the atmosphere in the lodge! The band will be playing from 4 to 8 pm. T-shirts and Great Big Gig tickets will be on sale as well for $10 each. Come on out to the hill and support the band!

Wrestling City Championships

On Friday, the Colts Wrestling team had a great performance at the City Championships. Our boys successfully defended their title capturing the City Championship trophy again. Our girls had a strong showing placing third. Winning gold for Korah was Aaron Forbes, Dylan Pigeau, Wylie Middleton, Jesse Morley, Kyle Atkinson, Joey Quinton and Tasha Doroodian.

Photographs by Vanessa Closs.

Hockey Win!

Colts Hockey won the championship game in a recent CanLan tournament they entered.

Seussical The Musical

Photography by Alyssa Eddy.

Calendar

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The Knights of Alloy Robotics Team

Logo above created by Keyana Doroodian in Communication Technology for the Robotics Team.

Some of the team work on the lifter arm.
Jesse works the lathe to machine a part.

Greetings Friends and followers of The Knights of Alloy Robotics team.

The FIRST robotics season is up and running once again and ADSB's high school competition team is hard at work building this year's robot. Attached, please find our first press release for the season, with updates expected each week for the next few weeks. This year's shipping date (when the robot must be done) is Feb.23rd, so I should have final photos of the robot during that week. Competition dates are Mar.25 to 27 (Waterloo Regional at University of Waterloo), and Mar.31 to Apr.3 (Greater Toronto Regional in Mississauga). Should the team meet with success in either Regional, we could go on to the World Robotics Championships in Atlanta for Apr. 15 to 17th.

Please feel free to contact me at any time at this email address or at my new office phone at 945-7489, and I would be glad to give anyone additional information about this year's competition. If you would like more emails, photos, information or anything else, I am more than happy to relay any and all information that I can. For those interested in this year's actual game, I encourage you to download the game animation from the NASA site (linked in the press release) as it does an excellent job in showing the details for the game (and is also how we were shown the game details ourselves).

Jonathan Budau
coach/mentor - The Knights of Alloy Robotics - team #1535

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EARTHQUAKE IN HAITI

Any students wishing to collect funds on their own will be granted community service hours and the money will be counted as part of the homeroom total.

The homeroom class collecting the most funds will win a pizza or sub party.

Thank you again for your support of this very worthwhile event.

Funds will be sent to UNICEF Canada on behalf of Korah Collegiate

Update: Feb. 2010 During a two-week period, our student body raised almost $1,200 to assist those in need in Haiti. Thank you to our Students’ Council and ISCF club members for their work on this initiative.

GUY VETRIE MEMORIAL BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT

Friday, February 5th, 2010
During Period 4
Korah vs Toronto Oakwood

Tickets $2.00

Photo by Vanessa Closs

Seussical The Musical

Flip Book

Hand drawn flip book photographed and imported to Windows MovieMaker to create animation.

Created by Mary Callaghan. Grade 10.

WINNER

The draw for the tickets to the Superbowl PTA fund raiser was held Jan. 15, 2010. The winner was Bart Albanese from Garson Ontario. Pictured above, Allison Bovingdon and Stephanie Johnson. co-student presidents, drew the winning ticket with the assistance of the Korah mascot, Mr. Iacoe and Parent Council members.

Stop Motion Animation

Illustrations and concept by Eric Moss.

Student Of The Month

Jasmine Brosseau - Math

Chloe Halpenny - Geography

Love Science!

You either love this assignment or you don't! Dissecting a pig in science class.

Photo by Brittany Morrar.

Mustang Sally

Mustang Sally plays to family and friends at Korah on Dec. 8, 2009.

Mustang Sally is back at it for the 2009-2010 school year. Check out what they have been up to! The past 3 months have been a blur to the members of Mustang Sally. On September 26 the group performed their first gig of the year after only having 5 practices. They delivered an outstanding gig to RBC regional meeting at Windsor Park that had them begging for more.

Mustang Sally is again promoting Character Education throughout the Algoma District School Board with pride. The group performed their very first elementary school gig of the year on October 30th to a “rockin” crowd at Pinewood PS. They were able to record their original song “Character Ed” for the ADSB Character CD that will be release in the new year.The first two months of rehearsals for the band were very busy with extra practices scheduled to prepare for the group's performances at the National Character Education Conference that was held in Huntsville Ontario at the Deerhurst Resort November 1, 2 and 3rd. The group performed two 20 minutes sets to students from around the country. The group also performed 2 night sets for the adults attending the conference. Mustang Sally left a great impression on both the students and the adults that were at the conference. They also had an opportunity to have their picture taken with David Suzuki at a book signing!Mustang Sally performed its second character education gig on November 13th at CASS, where the audience was both elementary students and high school students. The audience rocked out to a set filled with rock and pop songs such as Dear Mr. President, Angel, Walkin on Sunshine, Dawn of a New Day, We Will Rock You, Who Are You, Who Knew, What's Going On, I Want You Back, Magic, One, Sweet Home Alabama and many more. That night they also went to the Great Northern Conference Center and performed for Mr. Caruso at their hockey fundraiser. What a busy day full of music!On November 20th the band played in Korah’s auditorium which was filled to capacity with its feeder school students. The audience joined in singing many of the bands songs and also danced along. The electricity in the room was magical! The band inspired many elementary students to come to Korah in the future and get involved in high school life. Morgan Steele performed “Video Killed the Radio Star” for the first time, and the audience loved it.The band performed on November 30th at the Speak Easy at Algoma University to a crowd of students that were attending the Sault Ste Marie Innovation Centre's Youth Entrepreneurship Workshop.

Mustang Sally believes it is important to get involved in community events and give back whenever they can.And.. don't forget... MUSTANG SALLY'S GREAT BIG GIG is April 9, 2010 at the Great Northern Conference Center. You must be 19+ to enter, but the tickets make excellent stocking stuffers for the music lovers in your life. Tickets are $10 and are available from any band member or the main office!

Boys Basketball

Boys basketball is underway. Come out and catch a game.
Photo by Vanessa Closs.

Cardboard Boat Races

Although Korah teams' boats did not finish in the top of the standings this year, the students had an enjoyable day and learned some valuable lessons.
The team from Espanola performed well in the weight test holding 800 lbs. above water in their boat.


Two teams were entered in the Ontario Skills Cardboard boat races in Espanola on Dec. 1, 2009.

The rookie team consisted of Connor Maloney, Gabe Wetzel, Michelle Millar, Piyush Shukla.

The veteran team consisted of Alena Atkinson, Marissa Schliephacke, Ashley Hunter, Nicole Maione.

Christmas Parade

Korah Pride was shining through at the Christmas Parade. Students let the community know all about it and us on their parade float.

Christmas Concert

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Crystal Shawanda Concert

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YOU CAN WIN!

Korah’s PTA is conducting a Super Bowl Draw to raise funds to help support student activities at our school.

Tickets will be on sale for $10.00 to the general public for 9 weeks with a draw date scheduled for Friday, January 15^th, 2010 at 2:45 p.m. in our main gym in front of the entire student body.

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Semi Finals

Jr. Football team beats White Pines 28 - 0 to win their 1st semi-final game.

Student Of The Month

* Devon Phillips - Science
* Mike Della Penta - Tech
* Tanner Gaudreau - History

City Cross Country at Hiawatha

Heavy rain and cold temperatures couldn't stop your Colts Cross Country team from coming out on top at the city meet. Your Colts won team awards in Midget Girls, Junior Girls, Midget Boys, Senior Boys and came second in Senior Girls. With such a strong team effort your colts claimed, for the first time, the girls overall and boys overall City Championship. As Mackie Edwards would say, “IT WAS AWESOME.” The following is a list of the top 6 finishers.

Teija Humalamaki - 6th Midget girls
Nick Burns - City Champ - 1st Midget boys
Liam Train - 6th Midget boys
Mariah Krancevich - 2nd Junior girls
Jaimee Carter - 6th Junior girls
Karl Zimmermann - 4th Junior boys
Corey Conforzi - 5th Junior boys
Sophie Kargl - 3rd Senior girls
Elyse McCarthy - 6th Senior girls
Jack Carlyle - City Champ - Senior boys
Mackie Edwards - 2nd Senior boysStephen Erickson - 6 th Senior boys

Thank you to cross-country coaches, Janis Hogan, Carolyn Fitzpatrick, Terri Finlayson, Jennifer Mireault, and Scot McCron for doing a fantastic job with our girls and boys teams.

NOSSA Update:

For the first time in school history your Korah Cross Country team came home from NOSSA as Aqqreate Overall Champions! The Junior Girls and Senior Boys came home as team champions while the Senior Girls were second overall, and the Midget Boys team tied for second. Top honors go to Mariah Krancevich who finishes second in junior girls, while Nick Burns and Jack Carlyle were fifth overall. Though the weather conditions were less than ideal, and the team was hit hard by the flu, all runners dug deep and ran their hearts out! Sixteen runners will now be representing Korah at OFSAA later in the week. Congratulations and way-to-go Colts!

SINGING AND SWEETS CONCERT!

The Korah Music Department would like to invite you to their very first annual fall Singing and Sweets concert on Wednesday, October 28th! This year’s lineup for a fantastically musical night includes many individual acts, as well as some duets, the Korahster Choir, grade 10 vocals class, and guest appearances from the casts of RENT and Seussical the Musical!

The sweet musical night begins at 7:00 pm in the auditorium. At intermission, there will be an array of baked goods, sweets and beverages in the cafeteria, along with some more musical entertainment. This is all included in the low ticket price of $5.00.
We hope to see you at the event! It promises to be a "sweet" night!


Reported by Liisa Steinwedel.

Korah Duathalon "Do The Du"

Congratulations go out to Spencer Hogan and Scott McCrone who successfully defended their team championship from last year in the Korah Duathalon. Second place went to the team of Andrew Barbeau, Jack Carlyle and Steve Erikson. The male and female individual winners were Karl Zimmermann and Teija Humalamaki.
Thanks to all those who participated. There were 18 teams entered. Sarah Theodossiou won the door prize of 2 tickets to Three Days Grace donated by Trevor Zachary and the Essar Center.