I'll give it to her sister. Next, we have freshman Lily Datillo. Lily won the 200 medley relay, 200 freestyle, and the 400 freestyle relay. >> Oh, she has three. Okay, awesome. >> All right. And they're not in order. Sorry. >> I'll just give them to you at the end, maybe. Is that fine? Okay, perfect. Okay, next we have sophomore Alejandra Shy. Alejandra won the 200 IM, the 100 breaststroke, and the 400 freestyle relay. Sorry, I'll give it to you. Hang on. You can stay. There was one of them. Uh, also qualifying for state were second time state qualifier sophomore Tayy Johnson. Taylor qualified in the 200 medley. Somebody should have prepared me for this. Sorry. There you go. And our final qualifier is four time state qualifier. Our senior Lily Canada. Lily qualified in the 200 medley relay, the 100 butterfly, the 100 freestyle, and the 400 freestyle relay.
And then we're also so grateful to Elizabeth Kelly and doctors and scientists from around the world who have developed the EMF or electromagnetic fields medical conference. That conference was available for 24.5 continuing medical education credits. And when that 2-year accreditation period expired, Elizabeth Kelly took the entire conference, all four days of lectures, discussion panels, and additional materials and put them online at no cost. So any doctor, any nurse, any healthc care practitioner, and even members of the public can go out to the EMF medical conference 2021 and just mark your calendars, a half hour here, an hour lecture there, and you will learn from top scientists and doctors around the world. So if you go to my website at Massachusetts for safe technology on my resources page, this document for the EMF medical conference is right there in the top bullet. So we are grateful that we have resources today to train.
For I have want to work at a hospital or a lab. Thank you, Sophia. Hi, my name is Noah George. My goal is to get a paying job. I want to work with a work with a DJ. Hopefully. >> Thanks, Noah. Cool. Thank you. Hi, my name is Marcus Arroyo. I want a job working in the kitchen. I hope to earn a kit certificate to do that. Thank you, Marcus. Well, uh well, program, uh We are transition program for young adults ages 18 to 22. We focus on preparing for adult life after high after high school. This includes job skills, independent living skills, and being active members in the in our community. Thank you. And you want me to help make and deliver orders for the dairy lunch cafe. And you want those off campus each day. Each week we work out at the YMCA.
Under this procedure, the district school committee has established a local agreement governing the distribution of available seats. Each member community will be apportioned seats based on the previous year's enrollment data and its percentage share of the overall eighth grade population in the district based on member community data submission to the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. GLTS will run a randomized unweighted lottery consistent with the seat allocation requirements of this local agreement. The town allocations and enrollment numbers, based on a class size of 500 students, are as follows: Andover is 5% or 25 seats, Lawrence 65% 325 seats, Methuen 25% 125 seats, North Andover North Andover is 5% 25 seats. I will now turn it over to Doreen Louth from GoTo Solutions to describe the lottery number assignment and process. >> Great, thank you. Um we're excited to be here to assist with the lottery today.
You will have three minutes. And if you could say your name and how you are affiliated with the schools. >> My name is Virginia Haskell. I'm here from the Federal Street PTO. This statement is being shared on behalf of the Federal Street School elementary PTO. We support the safety requirements for volunteers, including Corey checks, fingerprinting, and trainings. However, the current process requires multiple steps and at least one trip outside of Greenfield, which creates barriers for many families. Our volunteers are giving their time to support our schools, and for some families, the extra travel, time, and training requirements make volunteering difficult or impossible. Some families do not have transportation outside of Greenfield, which prevents them from completing this process. Research consistently shows that when parents are actively involved in their children's education, student performance improves. We respectfully ask the district to offer a regular opportunity to complete the Corey checks within Greenfield, such as one scheduled day each month at a district schooler office.
You will have 3 minutes and if you could say your name and how you are affiliated with the schools. My name is Virginia Haskell. I'm here from the Federal Street PTO. This statement is being shared on behalf of the Federal Street School Elementary PTO. We support the safety requirements for volunteers including CORI checks, fingerprinting, and trainings. However, the current process requires multiple steps and at least one trip outside of Greenfield which creates barriers for many families. Our volunteers are giving their time to support our schools and for some families the extra travel time and training requirements make volunteering difficult or impossible. Some families do not have transportation outside of Greenfield, which prevents them from completing the process. Research consistently shows that when parents are actively involved in their children's education, student performance improves. We respectfully ask the district to offer a regular opportunity to complete the CORI checks within Greenfield, such as one scheduled day each month at a district school or office.
And so, we are part of that. So, next slide, please. And here you see part of my I like to call them my dream team. And this is my instructional leadership team, and it is composed of at least I tend to have one member from each grade level. You have there uh special education representation. You have PPS representation. You have uh ESL representation, uh and you have uh uh >> [clears throat] >> teacher from fifth grade, and those are people that are committed to the work that we're doing, and that's just a quick picture of the ones that are part of the hard work that we do in South Street. We'll go right into our wildly important goals for 25-26. Um obviously, I have more goals than this, but this is what we are focusing on the most. Uh one of the things that we've noticed since [clears throat] after the pandemic is our attendance, right?
Each speaker will be given three minutes to address the board, five minutes per organization, and a maximum of 20 minutes per topic. However, in exceptional circumstances, when necessary to ensure full opportunity for a public input, the board president may with board consent adjust the amount of time allowed. Any such adjustment shall be done equitably to show a diversity of viewpoints. The president may also ask members of the public with the same viewpoint to select a few individuals to address the board on behalf of that viewpoint. Speakers are reminded to communicate with respect, fairness, and courteousness to each other and to all present. We ask that you not use the name of any district employee in your comments. The board welcomes orderly communication from the public. All right. And first we have um Kim No. >> Hi, I'm Kim.
Um we couldn't do what we're doing without your support, and it's been really good for the students. It's really going to help them proceed on throughout their whole careers as long as they're doing in this type of field. Um I'd also like to thank Mr. Gunderson. He's been a huge supporter of our program. Uh outstanding. Thank you. And um I would like to thank the parents for bringing their students here today. So, without further ado, I'd like to bring them up. I would like to bring up uh Mr. Everett Ott first. Come on up, Everett. He's going to speak to our iTech 1 iTech 2 program, and then I got Ike in the back here. He's going to come up right after him and continue on. Hi. First, I'd like to say thank you for you guys for supporting my iTech 1 program. It's It's been really fun all semester.
And Angelina, can you play? >> Welcome back. A quarter of a million dollars is heading to rural schools. Puma Jed is granting $50,000 to build districts uh to get districts to build out their career and technical education programs. Research shows CTE classes keep kids in school and these districts need the support. 13 News education reporter Sol. CTE students work on cars. They learn to cook. They build houses. To qualify the CTE class, more than half that class time must be spent learning hands-on. But that's really expensive. Those students run through materials quickly. So when I heard about a new grant that can help, I drove to Aaho to find out more. Rural districts often struggle to find resources. >> There's less businesses around. There's less institutions around. And these rural districts struggle to keep kids in school. In Aaho Unified, 50% of students are chronically absent.
So rather than uh me try to um give you guys cliffnotes versions I feel like or or my understandings um I just thought we'll just bring them all in. And so um Phil has done the drawings. Andrew could speak to the architectural pieces of it. And then I appreciate Max and Hearn um just doing a budget for us, a rough budget. They did that at no cost. So I appreciate their efforts to do that for us. And um so you guys have all those and I'm just going to kind of let them go through it a little bit from their each of their I guess expertise areas and kind of uh talk through us uh what that might look like or kind of what their recommendations are. So Phil, I guess I'll let you start and I've I've got everything. I'll get it pulled up on the screens too.
Also, public health officials, we saw this in a big way back during CO. Um, every public school was working closely with its local health department to be able to provide contact tracing information, all kinds of stuff that the local health department was requiring. So, we were relying upon the the health emergency exception in order to be able to provide that information as was needed during that time. medical personnel. You get a call um we get a student who's maybe sick at school or gets hurt at school, needs to be taken by ambulance, you know, medical personnel arrive. We're able to be able to give the people who are there to help the child the information that they need under that health emergency scenario. Also, it could be a parent of someone who who's not the actual student at issue. That's rare, but when it does happen, it could be, for example, uh we become aware that uh a student has threatened the life of another student.
>> Okay. >> Mhm. All right. Yeah. And also, they cannot change their players. They cannot change their characters after they win or lose, you know. >> Okay. >> Mhm. Uh, so the Sam the Samus is going to stay a Samus and the other uh varsity cyber tigers are going to have to um are going to have to counterplay, pick a character that they think could win against them. >> Makes sense. >> Mhm. >> Right. And any stocks a player has lost must be relinquished at the beginning of the next game, which means they're jumping off. And after they do jump off, they have to taunt to let them know, hey, we're ready to go. So, it looks like Eli is coming up and he's playing Donkey Kong. This character was uh an enemy in the hit video game Donkey Kong. >> Mhm. He didn't appear purple in that game.
Congratulations. All right. down here. >> I'm incredibly proud of the dedication of these swimmers showed this season and the way they represented our school. Congratulations, ladies. Now that I'm embarrassed, >> there's girls. Next is girls wrestling academic team. >> Okay. See if it matches. That's first. Got him. >> Good evening. Tonight, we'd like to recognize several members of our girls wrestling program who have earned academic all-state honors. This season was an incredibly successful one for our girls wrestling team. And these recognitions highlight the commitment these student athletes have shown both on the mat and in the classroom. In our athletic department, we consistently emphasize that our athletes are students first and athletes second. Athletics are an extension of the classroom, and these young ladies have done an outstanding job representing the philosophy by excelling in both areas. We are incredibly proud of their dedication, discipline, and example they set for others in our school community.
But for all of those who went through medical school and never learned about this, I think that your experience with the utility smart meter that was mounted on your home is a very strong testament to why we need protections from our local utility companies, from our state level departments of public utilities, and from our legislators. We have two bills here in Massachusetts to give people the right to opt out of these man-made radio frequency transmitting utility meters for gas, water, electric, solar, even propane are putting these transmitters on. So I would be very grateful if you would share your story with us on how you came from knowing nothing about nonionizing radiation to the experiences that you and your family have had and then to what you've had to do in the legal system to try and protect your family. I was coming home from running some errands on November 30, 2015 and there was a utility truck at the top of the driveway and he was there to install the new meter.
We meet with other transition transition groups at Hopkinton Arts Center for adult classes and we have different social activities every Friday. Thank you. We work at different locations in our community and around the middle school. My favorite internship is Usher Nutrition. We are working on being more independent. Someday I would like to make some drinks for customers from the one and only Kelly from Ashland Nutrition. Mhm. We learn how We learn how to make coffee orders. We practice cooking and doing the dishes. Thank you. Uh this year we have the daily launch calf. We can serve staff at the Ashland Middle at at Ashland Middle School drinks and treats. We did a calf uh we did a coffee and kindness fundraiser for for teachers in all the schools in Ashland. Thank you. We also put on the movie event for classes from David Mendez, Ashland Middle School, and the high school.
Um before we begin, I'm going to give you a brief overview of how the lottery works, how the lottery ID works, um and just give you a sense of what is going to happen uh for the remainder of the lottery. A total of 1,316 students have qualified for the this year's lottery. To ensure fairness, the computer will randomly shuffle all of the eligible students. To protect the student confidentiality, you were assigned a lottery ID number. That lottery ID number is available in your application portal. During the lottery drawing, the computer will generate a four-digit number between 1,001 and 9,999. Every student will draw a number, and after all students have received a number, this will be sorted by community first, and then lottery number from lowest to highest within each community. And you'll be able to see those results. Again, this the lottery is an unweighted lottery with town apportionment.
Making this process more accessible will help more families participate and strengthen our school community. Thank you for your time. Sincerely, the Federal Street Elementary School PTO. Okay. Hi. And if you could say your name and your affiliation with the schools. >> Yeah. My name is Isaac Mass. Uh I'm a taxpayer in Greenfield and the parent of three children who are educated by Greenfield public schools, including my youngest is a senior in Greenfield High School and I'm a spouse of a Greenfield educator. Um, the reason why I'm speaking to you today is first I want to thank you for all of the hard work that you do. It is sometimes thankless. I know that to be a public servant and to be engaged in the very important work that you do and you do important work for our district. So, I appreciate each and every one of you.
Making this process more accessible will help more families participate and strengthen our school community. Thank you for your time. Sincerely, the Federal Street Elementary School PTO. Thank you. Isaac Mass, followed by Elizabeth Myers. Okay. Hi. And if you could say your name and your affiliation with the schools. Yeah. My name is Isaac Mass. Uh I'm a taxpayer in Greenfield and the parent of three children who are educated by Greenfield public schools, including My youngest is a senior in Greenfield High School and I'm a spouse of a Greenfield educator. Um the reason why I'm speaking to you today is first I want to thank you for all of the hard work that you do. It is sometimes thankless. I know that to be a public servant and to be engaged in the very important work that you do and you do important work for our district, so I appreciate each and every one of you.
We we tend to have now we never used to have such high chronic absenteeism. And last year we had 13.3% and this year our goal is to bring it down to 9%. So when I tell you to do activities, we do so many activities for all our wonderful K through 5 kids. Uh we try to do monthly. It is exhausting, but they love it. We have all kinds of uh different activities for them and I My kids are all older, but I'm getting to know what is out there, what is popular and famous because I have to to make them more engaging and tell them how important it is to be in school. And they do love to be in school. So our goal is to do um reduce that to 9% and we're working our way towards that. Um our next goal is academic driven.