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Monday, March 31, 2008

PAMS Students place in Computer Fair

Two students, Brad DeLeone and Linnea Phillips, placed in three categories at the Pennsylvania Middle School Computer Fair

(more project links and photos coming soon!)

Congratulations!



Mrs. Shaffer and Mrs. Sullivan are proud to announce that the students participating in yesterday’s Chester County Middle School Computer Fair had an excellent day! Seven students traveled to the Chester County Intermediate Unit (CCIU) to compete amongst the best of the best computer projects in all of Chester County. We would like to acknowledge:

Bradley DeLeone – Desktop Publishing – “Killing Mr. Griffen”



Sean Speers – Desktop Publishing – “The Untold Story of Sean Speers”



Bradley DeLeone – Digital Movie – “Aladdin and the 8th Grade Fall Play”



Tyler Freeze and Jake Stambaugh – Logo Design – “2009 PA Computer Fair”



Allison Henry and Jordan Snowden – Multimedia –

“Average American Middle School Girl”



Tyler Frees – Multimedia – “The D.B. Cooper Mystery”



Jordan Snowden – Webpage – “Hoppin’ 50’s”



Linnea Phillips and Amanda Kurtz – Webpage – “How to be a Hippie”



This day long event welcomed over sixty students from seven local middle schools. The Pennsylvania Middle School Computer Fair is a student event that highlights computer technology integration within the middle school classroom and recognizes student achievement. Students are able to unleash their creativity, convey information more dynamically, apply state standards and collaborate to create innovative projects. There are competition prizes associated with the computer fair. At the regional level yesterday, individual medals were awarded to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners. All participating receive a certificate to honor their efforts.



We are proud to announce that two of our students were placeholders in three different categories:

Linnea Phillips took 2nd Place in the Webpage category for her project titled “How to be a Hippie”

Bradley DeLeone took 2nd Place in the Desktop Publishing category for his adaptation of the book “Killing Mr. Griffen”

Bradley DeLeone also took 3rd Place in the Digital Movie category for his film titled “Aladdin and the 8th Grade Fall Play”



This event was designed to be fun as well as competitive and allowed the students the opportunity to participate in two internet scavenger hunts as well as a virtual field trip to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Twenty students (including our own Allison Henry and Jordan Snowden) participated in the creation of a news bite of the Middle School Computer Fair for the Student Update show. Students created the interview questions, served as news reporters and worked behind the camera to capture footage that will later be edited for an upcoming segment of the Student Update show on http://ccitv/cciu.org



Please join us in congratulating all of these students on a job well done and especially Bradley and Linnea for their project awards. We hope that all students will pursue this contest next year in high school and we look forward to working with everyone on next year’s fair here.

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