001hello my name is joe satar i'm the principal of orange door for elementary school welcome to the warren store for creation station this room was designed to allow students to engage with the engineering design process to learn a simple way to put that is to have our students learn by having fun with all this cool stuff this room was made possible through a grant from the east brunswick education foundation in the course of preparing the room our teachers joined plc's we read books about what it means to be to have a maker lab and to how to use a maker lab and our students have been engaging in some fun activities that we're going to show you so please take a few minutes and enjoy watching the video about the warren starfire creation station [Music]
002do [Music] do [Music] so [Music] so [Music] five four three two one action good morning my name is sydney and my name high of is and a low of 55 and it is gonna be clear skies uh it's gonna be a beautiful day so get your shorts on and get outside [Music] foreign [Applause] so that's a little bit of of how we're using the maker lab and uh our kids engaging with some of the materials that you see on our on our tables here um of course much more went into the planning of this room um as you can see the furniture in here uh there was uh the the floor was redone all of these cabinets the cabinetry the wood butcher block cables all went through a great process to uh to figure out
003which materials we wanted to purchase right down to deciding on on how we're going to store all the materials which materials to buy how they'll align with the curriculum that we're using already so uh this was a great effort uh by a lot of people and and i i think uh it really of course couldn't be couldn't have been done at all um if it weren't for the generosity of mr tony yoselov so we really i of course want to welcome him and his family uh his mom and dad are here uh we we spoke a little bit of shop that we uh mr yoselof and i uh worked together on a uh an english project uh with uh middlesex county college uh when i was at the high school so thank you for for
004that for all those years those were those were wonderful times um and of course our ebef representatives from our ebef uh alan shearer is here from uh nilsek county college and part of the evdef as well um of course uh dr velesky is here thank you sir for for your support of our vision for this room um and uh the kids have been a wonderful asset in trying to figure out how we can use this room getting them in here playing around with things to to make it the best it can be we really only scratch the surface as as we move forward into a traditional year next year this room is going to be really the heart and soul we hope of the of the building of course none of this would would have
005wouldn't have been able to put all of the planning and and operations of this together without our teachers and really all of the teachers in the school were involved in this we had plc's as i mentioned we read we read books [Music] it's been a large part of what we've done what we were doing it seems like a long time ago because of because of our situation um but that that's been ingrained in our in our in the culture of our of our teaching and or at least our planning and we're hoping that it's going to lead into what we do on a daily basis once we're able to get back full time but really our teachers are represented here today by and i'm going to name you guys because you guys have been wonderful
006uh anne-marie curtis lisa ruggiero cara johnson michelle riesbord who was our instructional coach last year she was a she was a great helping get in this room together uh andy scanlon is our is a supervisor in the district and a good friend and he and he uh he had a lot to do with putting this room together as well kelly stalling uh uh aaron carroll and monica marrero is our media specialist and special thanks to uh where's joanne joe oh i missed it right here special thanks to joanne yanchak and kelly stalling for helping get this room together uh again for this for this event so thank you thank you all very much uh thanks for being here in just a few minutes you're gonna have a chance to play with all the materials but
007i'd like to welcome dr moleski [Applause] good morning to everyone to all of our distinguished guests to our students to our teachers our wonderful professional teachers our administrators this is an opportunity that i get in my role in east brunswick to participate in these significant events and this is one of them today um you know i didn't have the opportunity for those of you who don't know in this room mr yourself's teacher mrs shone is uh present here and so we reunite teacher and student once again and so i wasn't here to see the impact first hand that mrs schoen had on mr yusulov but that's evident today it's evident by his generous contribution that made all of this happen and yet once again that impact will pass on to you students for opportunities to
008explore to create and to experiment and so on behalf of the district thank you very much for not only the relationship you had as teacher and student but now in giving back to our students and giving them the opportunity to envision the world in a different way we thank you so much for that and just i have to acknowledge leslie's husband paul shone and paul is a member of the ebef and handles all the financial dealings and until about two weeks ago i thought paul was actually an employee of the district because paul is in our office all the time well not because of the pandemic but he recently asked to come back into the office and regardless of what's going on in paul's life if he's traveling or anything going on the foundation is
009always at the at the center of his concern and making sure that the finances of the foundation are in place and that students and teachers get the benefit of grants that the foundation has so kindly offered our teachers throughout the years and exceeding two million dollars now right jack so it's it's a very big number so someone who can speak more eloquently about the foundation no other than the president of ebf mr jack levitt thank you dr volesky all i could say is wow this is something that i have been waiting to do for probably the last 18 months or so we were ready to do this and then all of a sudden we got delayed and this process goes back way beyond 18 months for me this started with a simple phone call i
010got a phone call from tony yoself one day saying hey i read that warren storefront is having a 50th anniversary i said yeah they are there's a whole big year-long celebration he goes is it okay am i allowed am i allowed remember that part of the question am i allowed to make a donation in honor of their 50th anniversary let me tell you you don't have to be allowed to make a donation to our organization you never ever ever need permission i'm telling everybody you never need permission we will always welcome a donation because anybody who donates money to us it automatically gets turned around and goes right back into the classroom it doesn't stop it just turns around and comes right back to the classroom because teachers like the ones around the room write
011grants to do very cool things some are smaller things some are humongous things like this but your money turns into all of this so we are incredibly fortunate to have donors who are willing to give us funds to have programs like this so the phrase that takes a village starts with that phone call tony made this phone call and said can i do this i said let me call the principal over at warren store for and see what kinds of things he might want to do with the donation we talked about the numbers and i called mr satari and we talked about the possibilities and he got his team of teachers together and said here's our list and they voted on what they wanted to do and a maker space which is called the creation
012station came about now to take a classroom and completely turn it into something else is not something you could just snap your fingers and do so we had to rely on dr volesky leading the administration to be able to get this room available to do this and there were a lot of phone calls back and forth and you know the board of education voted on this very enthusiastically excited to see that this is going to happen because this is the first one in the district so everybody was watching to see what a room like this would turn out to be so now we have a donor we have ebef involved we have the teachers we have the principal we have the administration we have the board of ed the whole village of east brunswick has
013been involved and the last ones to get involved and the most important ones are the students in the classes and you coming in here and showing us how this all works really completes the story and completes the circle for us because we get to see all the hard work that went into this finally pay off so i am very excited about the tour we're about to take but before we do that there's somebody i think you really need to meet because the man who started this whole chain of events is here today and he's going to come up and say a few words to you so let's hear it for tony yoself [Applause] thank you uh jack thank you principal joe thank you to dr uh valeski and thank and thank you all for taking
014time out of your day today uh to be here for this i'm only going to speak for a couple of minutes um i want to talk about two things you know the first of which is like why i did this right and so i was at warren star for school for seven years and so when i was in the school district and i grew up uh right down the road so less than a mile uh from here and i spent my entire childhood in east brunswick um warren stoffer was a k-6 school and so i was literally the last year of sixth grade at warren stauffer which i think was 1986 not to date myself but and i thought about it i have not spent more than three years at any other school in my
015life which included high school college law school and business school so i spent more than twice as many years at this school as i ever did anywhere else and i had an amazing uh experience at this school uh in part to many amazing teachers including leslie shown who was my sixth grade teacher and graduated with me up the hammershot i think after uh after we all uh we all left and so i feel very fortunate to have been part of an amazing public school uh district um that really did great things in in my life and i don't think i would have got on to the things that i did later on but for having that amazing uh foundation and so i'm old enough that i remember i think either the 15th or 20th anniversary
016of warren stauffer and being here but when i heard about the 50th anniversary i actually didn't realize how young this school was when i was here because it was under 10 years old when i started here and so i called up and i did ask uh permission because sometimes you know the rules are a little different with donating to uh public schools but that's where the east brunswick education foundation uh comes in and you know there really are two people in this room to thank in part for this leslie is one and paul is actually the other i made my first donation to the east brunswick education foundation like 20 years ago um and um i did that for a few reasons number one my mother who's here is actually a co-founder of the east
017brunswick education foundation so i i i knew what they were um because of her um i am one of the original backers of something called donorschoose.org which now um gives 150 million dollars a year to public schools across the united states including the east brunswick high school so i was one of the original people involved with that and then eb ef kind of showed up so i sent them a check and paul rang me up and said can i come to your office and see you uh and to be honest i probably mostly took the meeting because paul was married to leslie but i said sure if you want to come see me come see me and so uh he told me all about the wonderful uh work that uh paul that the the the
018foundation was doing and i got to know jack a little later on uh as well having run the foundation for a very long time uh at this point um and that's that's where we are and so this was all supposed to happen uh about months ago which seems to me like five years ago with everything that's happened with uh with with um uh covid but i'm super thrilled it's here you know i have children around your guys ages i've got a fourth grader and i've got a sixth grader and an eighth grader uh they do robotics they do a lot of stuff with electronics uh i hadn't seen the spheros before those look very cool uh by the way and so um you know i kind of made it open-ended with whatever the district thought
019was was best but when a couple of options uh were presented to me this one really spoke to me because i understood the reason for it and so space got built it was february 2020 which again seems like a long time ago and so i i made one last request of the district and and i said would you mind if we name the space after somebody and um after a little while they said sure and who is it and i said you know i can think of nobody better to name this after than both leslie and paul shown so we were originally going to announce this at the [Applause] this was originally going to be announced at the ebef annual dinner in march of 2020 um but obviously we got delayed a little bit but
020i want to congratulate leslie and paul and um you know thank you guys both for all of your hard work and efforts on behalf of me and the east brunswick schools so thank you okay so thank you everyone and please uh enjoy our maker lab the kids are going to come over and show you how to use some of this material please take a look at our wonderful plaque dedicated to mr and mrs shone have fun everyone you