UPDATE: Earlier Release
<Please scroll down for English version>
Liebe Eltern und Erziehungsberechtigte,
aufgrund der aktuellen Wetterwarnung in unserer Region und im Interesse der Sicherheit aller Schülerinnen und Schüler sowie Mitarbeitenden beenden wir den Unterricht und das Kindergartenprogramm heute vorzeitig um 12:55 Uhr. Die Schulbusse werden das Schulgelände um 13:05 Uhr verlassen.
Um eine ungefähre Ankunftszeit an Ihrer Haltestelle zu ermitteln, bitten wir Sie, sich an den Zeiten der regulären Busroute zu orientieren.
Wenn Ihr Kind nicht mit dem Bus fährt, holen Sie es bitte um 12:55 Uhr ab.
Sollte sich die Wettersituation so entwickeln, dass es erforderlich ist, werden wir selbstverständlich alle Schülerinnen und Schüler sicher in den Gebäuden behalten und Schutz im Gebäude gewährleisten, bis eine sichere Situation gegeben ist.
Falls Sie aufgrund von Verkehr oder Wetter nicht genau um 12:55 Uhr zur Abholung eintreffen können, werden wir die Kinder weiterhin in den jeweiligen Gebäuden – Preschool, Elementary School und im Hauptgebäude – betreuen und im Gebäude lassen, bis Sie sicher an der Schule angekommen sind, um Ihr Kind abzuholen.
Bitte fahren Sie vorsichtig, versuchen Sie jedoch so zeitnah wie möglich zur Schule zu kommen, da wir bemüht sind, die Gebäude für die Sicherheit aller Beteiligten so bald wie möglich nach 12:55 Uhr zu leeren.
Sollte es zu Verzögerungen bei der Abfahrt der Schulbusse kommen, werden wir Sie selbstverständlich umgehend mit einem weiteren Update informieren.
Wir danken Ihnen für Ihr Verständnis und wünschen Ihnen und Ihrer Familie, dass Sie gut und sicher durch das heutige Wetter kommen.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Die Schulleitung
..........................................
Dear Parents and Guardians,
Due to the severe weather alert in our region, and in the interest of the safety of all students and staff, classes and the preschool program will end early today at 12:55 pm. School buses will depart campus at 1:05 pm.
To estimate the approximate arrival time at your bus stop, please refer to the times listed on the regular bus route schedule.
If your child does not ride the bus please pick them up at 12:55pm.
If the situation warrants it, we will certainly keep all students safely sheltered inside the buildings and ensure everyone remains safe until conditions allow otherwise.
If you happen to be delayed in traffic or by the weather and cannot arrive exactly at 12:55 pm for pickup, students will remain inside their respective buildings - Preschool, Elementary School, and the Main Building - and will be supervised until you arrive safely to pick up your child.
Please drive carefully and do your best to be on time, as we are for everyone’s safety hoping to have the buildings cleared as soon as possible after 12:55 pm.
If bus departures are delayed, we will certainly provide another update promptly.
Thank you for your understanding. We wish everyone a safe afternoon and hope you stay safe during the weather.
Kind regards,
School Leadership
Authentic-STEM Launched at Kick-off Meeting
At its inaugural meeting on February 8 th the long-awaited launch of Authentic-STEM took place online with over 100 of the project’s participants in attendance including 10 GISW 9 th graders.
This initiative is a binational collaboration involving 70 students in the US and Germany, representing 7 schools – three American and four German, and organized into 10 binational teams, as well as participating companies and advisors in both countries. Students’ participation is supported by mentoring provided by university students and faculty from the math departments of the University of Siegen and Clarkson University.
The objective of the project is to help students learn systemic approaches to contemporary problem solving, develop intercultural communication and interdisciplinary skills as they collaborate in solving an actual problem of a regional company that operates internationally. Besides those benefits, any one of the participating companies may be a current student’s future employer.
GISW students, under the mentorship of their Math teacher Andreas Haider, are on three of the ten “solver teams” and will be working with three of the participating companies, specifically ALSCO, TMD Friction and OnSemi.
Assistant Professor Jenny Magnus from Siegen University was MC for the virtual kick-off of Authentic-STEM and introduced the organizers. Jorden LeBlanc from North Country Workforce Partnership Inc. (NCWP) described the many ways that open-ended business problems presented by companies are beneficial to the students selected to participate. For example, the opportunity to test hypotheses, overcome challenges and receive authoritative feedback from the companies provides them a sense of autonomy they didn’t have before. NCWP Executive Director Sylvia Nelson remarked that “Authentic-STEM provides students with a kind of learning you can’t find in a textbook.”
Next, the participating companies were introduced: ALSCO Uniforms, BETA Technologies, TDM Friction and OnSemi, followed by student-produced videos some of which featured rhymed lyrics.
The highlight of the launch was the much anticipated presentation of the problems the students will be working on in the coming months. The solver teams met in separate virtual break-out rooms with company representatives and mentors from the universities to discuss the tasks ahead and to do some initial brainstorming.
By early June we may see for ourselves the success of this project when the solver teams present their results in an innovation forum. In the meantime we wish all GISW participants good ideas, perseverance and a lot of fun!
Steffi Colopy
(MINT-Koordinatorin GISW)
