Exploring Math – Summer 2009 High School Student Workshops

The Mathematics Department at Dartmouth College is pleased to announce two summer enrichment workshops for local high school students. Here is a chance for students to interact with mathematicians in a fun, non-graded environment. Topics covered will be outside of the usual high school syllabus. An exploratory approach will be emphasized. Each program will cover different mathematical topics and students are invited to attend one or both. Program cost for each workshop is $20.00.

Exploring Math – Summer 2009
High School Student Workshops
2 enrichment programs at Dartmouth:
Program 1: Afternoons July 13th –17th
Program 2: Afternoons July 27th –July 31st
For more information or to register contact:
Kim Rheinlander at 646-1146
e-mail: Kim.Rheinlander@dartmouth.edu
www.math.dartmouth.edu/activities/special-events/exploring-mathematics-2009.php

SWWCSWMD

Southern Windsor/Windham Counties Solid Waste Management District.

Check schedules for hazardous waste pick-up.

Paradise Park work day – June 6th

What: Cleanup and minor trail work in various spots of Paradise Park
When: Saturday, June 6th at 9 a.m. This date was chosen because it’s National Trails Day
Where: A Paradise Park Commission volunteer will be at the County Road entrance to Paradise Park (by the hospital) with slips of paper with various jobs that need doing.
Who: All who will.  Anyone who enjoys the park and is willing to help keep it beautiful.
Why: The park and trails are in need of some help, plus it’s fun to explore parts of the Park you’ve never seen before.

New Windsor Alumni Website

Windsor High Alumni

Ascutney Trail Cleanup Day

[From Steve Giroux]
This year’s trail cleanup day will be on Saturday May 23 beginning at 8:30am. I believe that we will be meeting at the Windsor trailhead. To confirm that info you may wish to contact Barbara Rhode at 674-2326.

Windsor Scout Show

Windsor’s Boy Scout Troop 218 attended the Calvin Coolidge District’s Scout Show on April 18th.  This year’s event was at the Windsor Rec center, so it couldn’t have been easier for our guys to attend.  Troops from around the area showed off their Scouting skills, checked out what other troops are doing and helped put on the Cub Scout Pinewood Derby.

For those who don’t know, a Pinewood Derby is where Cub Scouts (8-10 year old boys) make a small wooden race car from a very basic kit, cutting and painting it to their favorite cool design.  They have to be under a certain weight and ready to race down a drag-strip course, where gravity, aerodynamics and luck determine the fastest car.  The winners get trophies and it brought out probably 40 Cubs.  Windsor’s own Jackie Collier planned and organized this event.  She had lots of enthusiastic help from Windsor Boy Scouts, including Ben Anderson and her son Ben Collier, who rallied the Cubs with songs and cheers.   Other adults such as Leland Tibbetts helped keep things running smoothly through all the race heats.

Windsor’s Troop 218 learned and practiced about cold-weather camping over the winter in 2 separate overnight campouts in Paradise Park, so it was natural for them to demonstrate those new skills at the Show.  They assembled some winter gear for their display, including a tent, cold-weather sleeping bags and boots, plus even ice climbing gear and a Klondike sled.  They made their booth even more educational by displaying two training presentations they’d created themselves.  Ben Anderson and Nick Lebeau created a slide show on how to built winter shelters from branches, tarps and snow, while leader Fred Lord’s slides showed how to stay warm, dry and healthy when you’re winter camping.

Troop exhibits were judged by a panel and Hartland Troop 235 took the blue ribbon for their exhibit on pioneering skills.  During the day the Hartland boys lashed together a table, a ladder and even a catapult, which they used to launch a stuffed eagle into the basketball hoop in the gym.   Since one of the tenets of Boy Scouts is that the troops are “boy-lead”, the boys did all the work, organizing themselves into teams for each item they lashed together.  Their adult leaders, Tom Ramsey and Sam Williamson just stood back and watched them go at it.