001President, I have 5:30. >> Thank you very much. >> Like to call the role to call the meeting to order. Roll call, please. >> Mr. Steininger, >> yay. >> Mrs. Mad >> here. >> Mr. Browning, >> here. Miss Landon, >> here. >> Mrs. Web >> here. >> Can we stand for our pledge of allegiance, please? I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you very much. >> You may be seated. >> Okay. Next order is to approve the agenda. Is there a motion to approve the agenda? >> So moved. >> Second. >> It's been approved and second. Can you please call the role? >> Mr. Browning? >> Yes. >> Mrs.
002Mad? >> Yes. >> Miss Landon? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Webb? >> Yes. >> Mr. Steininger? >> Yay. Next is to approve the minutes of the July 10th regular meeting in the July 28th joint work session. It's been attached. >> So moved. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> It's been approved and second. Could you please call the role? >> Mrs. Mad? >> Yes. >> Miss Landon? >> Yes. Mrs. Webb, >> yes. >> Mr. Browning, >> yes. >> Mr. Steininger, >> yay. Next is uh the good of the order. Jared, do you want to kick us off and I'll go down the line? >> Um, I wanted to start off thanking everybody within the district. You know, a lot of people don't realize the amount of work that actually goes on during the summer, you
003know, when the kids are gone. And you'll hear about a couple of them. I know you're going to talk about one of them this summer, but uh there's a lot of the the custodians, there's a lot of training, you know, the bus drivers are getting trained. I mean, so just I I wanted to make sure everybody understood that there's a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes during the summer and a lot of hard work going in and central office is there all summer and just wanted to thank them for what they're doing. So that's it. >> Wendy, you making a few notes there? Are you ready? >> Yep, I'm ready. Um, so thanks Jerry. Um, I just wanted to just uh remind some remind people of some events that are coming up. The
004band preview has been moved to August the 13th at 7:30 here at the high school. So they'll they'll um probably perform their band show um you know their show for competition as well, maybe like the first movement. Um also the mum cell is September 5th and then we're going to restart the uh brick fundraiser again at Sweet Corn Festival. Um we have the bricks are in place outside um at the entrance to the um athletic or to the football field. So >> thank you. >> Go ahead, >> Wendy. Oh yeah, Katie. >> I don't think we're that entertained. >> I don't think so. >> Um I just want to give a shout out to um Jeff Greer and all of the um food team that um has for feeding kids all summer. that's been a
005huge deal for our community and um I'm glad that we are able to provide that for for families. That's really important to keep kids well fed over the summer. Um so thanks to all those people who are working on that and driving food around. Um shout out to all of our athletics. I know pictures were this morning and um super excited for all those kids to um get started on and wishing them a a a happy and healthy and safe um competitive season for our fall sports. Um and I think that's it. Oh, and just you know, back to school. So, everybody be safe first day. So, >> Stephanie, >> um I would like to thank Coach Cox and the football players. uh six of the football players who came to the senior center for
006our free lunch for seniors uh last month and the boys served. They did a great job. They helped. We have people with canes and walkers. They did a great job. Uh by the end of it, they were actually talking and patting the old, you know, walking by and it was great. They they did a they did a great job and so did co coach Cox. Uh this month for August, we're having uh girls soccer >> come. >> I know >> you are. >> Okay. >> We talked about it yesterday. >> Fabulous. >> Um and and do the same thing. It's great for the seniors. It's great for us. It gives the seniors exposure to how great our kids are. So I'm going to keep that up. Uh and you know, go Hawks. Big big big
007month for everybody. And so we just need to keep pressing on and do our best for all our children. And that's all. >> Thank you. Again, as I look out to my to my back here to the south of the building, I see dirt moving. >> I see heavy equipment moving. And that's good to see. It really is good to see the progress we're starting to make there. And I look forward to seeing the structure starting to sprout out of that ground. It's exciting. We do live in exciting times here in Fairborn. It's fun to be around here and to watch our kids grow and take come back to school again to these buildings and to the staff. It's taken so much good time to get them ready. All the staff, everyone who contributes takes
008it takes our takes everyone here, the bus drivers, everyone to make us successful here. We're not done without it. So, I wish us all a very good, safe and prosperous year. Thank you. That's it for me. uh recognition of visitors. >> Mr. President, we don't have anybody signed up for public comments. >> Okay. Uh school presentations uh higher ground football camp. So, I'm I'm not sure where Coach Cox is, but we'll go ahead and u move on to Camp Invention because Sarah Fulton, our gifted coordinator, is here and she is going to share some information with us about a camp that um had its first run this summer and was hugely successful. So, Sarah, go ahead, take over. >> Got to use the leg. >> All right. So, I am super excited. Oh, hold on
009just a second. to share with you a great report on our first ever camp invention FCS gifted talent development camp. So this camp um I was the camp director. Uh Miss Rachel Souder was u my co-director. Uh and it was a fully funded. So that means we paid for all of the uh required fees in order to do the camp through our gifted talent development funding as well as busing and meals for the kids while they were there. All day uh hands-on learning experience for uh students to support their engagement, critical thinking, problem solving, and creativity in a fun day camp atmosphere. We had over 120 students participate uh and we had more than 200 students who applied. So we had a significant waiting list. The community interest was absolutely incredible. Um and so moving
010forward it's something that we definitely want to make sure uh that we provide if we can um because the community felt like it was valuable. It was a wonderful success uh and we want to see these uh students develop their talent as much as possible. So uh what is camp invention? We had four modules of the claw arcade where the students deter uh where the students investigated the physics of claws and animal claws and then created a claw machine. Uh illusion workshop where they created they worked through uh visual and performing arts. They had special guest tours of the amazing facilities here to see the special effects in our theater program and then made uh illusion creation designs from that. uh the penguin launch where they explored the physics of launching different things in different
011ways using penguins and in control where they explored AI uh computer-based uh control systems, Morris code and being able to send and receive through a wireless transmitters that they built themselves. This is a group shot of all of the kids uh here on the learning stairs. And then they were broken up into six teams with a team lead for each of the different groups grouped by grade level. along with a team lead teacher. We had uh a dream team of our staff. So we have gifted trained teachers who are already trained to work with our gifted educators. We pulled from only that pool of teachers so that they could both use this time and the preparation for it for gifted professional development time, but also use their expertise to make sure we're building into the
012talent development goals of the program. uh students that were invited were students who were in the 80th percentile or above on I Ready Diagnostics so that we were pulling from a specific student group to make sure that they were um able to fully participate and develop those talents and hopefully grow our gifted program as we move forward. Teachers completed lesson review, then spent a full day organizing materials and preparing for our orientation day, including turning uh the high school into an engaging atmosphere with decorations in the whole nine yards. teachers were able to use their training and experienced CEUs to our gifted PD hours. Um, and our instructors were Mary West, Alli Brazie, Jacob Ross, Brie Vincent, Buffy Wit, Karen Oennis. And our team leaders were Emily Folultz, Rachel Snyder, Lisa Gearhart, Sarah Whitehead, Kim
013Cornwell, and Tanya Hilty. Like I said, you'll recognize a lot of those names. There are some of the all-stars here in uh the schools, and they did an absolutely amazing job. One of the most important things about this camp is that it was carefully selected because it's researchbased. Um, it has been shown to positively impact students attitudes towards STEM and creative thinking, problem solving, as well as uh improved school attendance, which I know has been a major goal for our district. Um, higher GPA and better test scores with some studies suggesting these benefits extended beyond the summer program all the way into the school school year. um while fostering a passion for learning and exploration and encouraging children to develop innovative mindsets and pursue interests in the STEM fields. But even more importantly than that,
014we had a lot of fun. And where's my video? There it is. So, this is we did a highlight video for each day. This is one of the days videos. As you can see, everything that the students were doing was very hands-on and active. There's our illusion machines. You can see the animation coming through. Penguin launching. There's their controller boards. As you can see, the students were working in groups almost the entire time, facilitating those collaborative skills as well. autonomous penguin snowplows. They're pretty cool. Even the teachers got involved. These were pneumatic puppets that they designed for a puppet show. These were at the game station where they played different uh group games. and these were our teams. We had two first and second grade teams. Got the third grade team. Here's a fourth grade
015team. Another fourth grade team. And fifth grade. >> That was one day, Sarah. >> That was one day of our five-day camp. >> But that all that was just >> all that happened in one day. >> Wow. >> Multiply that by five. We were very busy. There was no room to not be engaged. So that was the the big uh uh selling point I think for the program is just the incredible level of engagement um and the vocabulary and the type of concepts that the kids were working with was really challenging and and wonderful. Um, so reflections and moving forward. Um, I think that it was a good use of our gifted talent development funding. Um, because it's that direct to student contact use of that funding, which it can be hard to come by
016sometimes. And so I really appreciated that element. Um, and the interest in the community was a testament to how valuable that the community felt like this was as well. Um, so we will offer our weight listed students from this year priority registration for next year. they'll get the link a whole week ahead of time because there were some very sad families that wanted to be a part of it and we just didn't have the space. Um we had tons of positive family feedback for the kids who were able to come. Um and then moving forward we want to look at the following measurables for um the impact reflections. attendance rates for kids who um and it naturally became a random uh sample because we had about 200 kids and about 120 were able to come
017versus others that were also registered. So we would able be able to directly compare those two to see if there's an attendance rate difference with those um gifted identification rates see if we have any improvements with those attenders I ready growth and uh of students who were participated versus invited um but non-participants in the in the program if you have any questions. >> Do we have any questions from the board? >> All right. Thank you very much >> program. Thank you very much. >> Lots of smiles though. >> They were having a good time. >> Lots of smiles. Thank you, Sarah. >> Yes. Thank you, Sarah. >> Thank you, >> Mr. Steininger. I do have one more item that I would like to add to the um >> Okay. >> district presentations tonight. If I
018could ask Richard Dale Thomas to join us right here at the end of the table, if you wouldn't mind to come forward. We have a very special guest with us tonight. Richard Dale Thomas. Um you can actually you can stand right there. Right there in the middle. That'll be perfect. Richard Dale Thomas uh was a student at Fairborn Baker High School and he left Baker in his 10th grade year in 1974 to join the Marines to serve our country. Mr. Thomas went on to serve during Vietnam era events and because of his service to our country that makes him eligible for a high school diploma. While he should have earned a diploma in 1977, tonight we are proud to present him with a class of 2025 Fairborn High School diploma. And we would like to
019thank you both for your service and for being a member of our community. Thank you. >> Thank you. [Music] [Applause] I'll be crying. want to speak. >> Do you do you want to say anything? >> Thank [Laughter] [Applause] You're welcome to stay, but also this is an opportunity if you want to zoom out and zoom out. >> You want her feelings that you go. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you. Yeah. >> Okay. The good times we have >> this board being able to honor someone like that. >> Okay. Uh treasury report. Uh we have a treasury report. Uh can I get a motion to approve? >> So moved. It's >> been so moved. There's a second. >> Second. >> So before we call the role, are there any questions? Do you have any
020do you have any Kevin? Do you have anything you'd like to say about the report? >> I'll give an update on the end of the year finances probably at the September meeting when we do the five-year forecast. >> Okay. Then hearing that, uh, would you like to please call the role? >> Mr. Browning? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Mad? >> Yes. >> Miss Landon? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Web? >> Yes. >> Mr. Steininger? >> Yay. Next we have the administrative reports which starts with a A1 and runs through the end of this here. >> Page eight. >> Yep. >> Page eight. Item all the way up to D. There comes to 21. So do I have a motion to approve? >> Some moved. So it's been moved. Second. >> Second. moved and seconded. There any questions
021about this section at all or I don't I didn't see anything that needed recognition. >> So, >> okay, then call the roll, please. >> Mrs. Webb, >> yes. >> Mr. Browning, >> yes. >> Miss Landon, >> yes. >> Mrs. Milad, >> yes. >> Mr. Steininger, >> yay. >> Okay. The next part we have is gift and donations. Wendy, would you be so kind? >> Sure. Uh, Fairborn City Schools Board of Education would like to gratefully acknowledge the following gifts and donations. City of Fairborn for school supplies, the Grey Writers for School supplies, and Mary Help of Christians, Pride Gochair, Power Wheelchair. Thank you to everyone for all your gifts and donations to our kids and our community. Thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you. With that, we have a work session. Do we have it?
022Do we want to take a second or do we do we have items for work session?