001more our student rep. We might be joined by Kip in a little bit and our IT administrator/director Matt Stone. If everyone could stand for the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge allegiance 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. >> Okay. All right. We have uh two sets of minutes to approve. Um we have schoolboard meeting minutes from April 21st as well as non-public minutes from April 21st. Do I have a motion to approve the minutes? >> So moved. >> Second. >> All right. Any discussion? All right. All those in favor? >> I. Those opposed? I abstain. Motion carries. Uh and I have because I wasn't here. Okay. Great. Um we are at our first
002public comment portion of the evening. if you'd like to come on up. Please, we ask that you state your name and address and that you keep your comments to three minutes. Okay, great. Uh Lucy, how are we looking? Well, it's pretty busy time of year, I will say. Um obviously, we haven't met since before break, so um I do have a few things to talk about from before break. Um starting with the um middle school sustainability and action summit, which is on Earth Day, so April 22nd. Um, Maple Street sixth grade uh, environmental action club was very well represented. I think they had 12 students go, which was more than I think any other school, even though there were schools from like Nasha, Marramax, some pretty big um, you know, cities. Um, I was there
003doing a workshop and I helped organize it and it was just a really fun um, and you know, it was a fun day and it was great to um, meet with you know, younger students to talk to them about what they're thinking. Um I believe um that the sort of action project that the Maple Streeters decided on was um renovating the sidewalks outside of the school so that more people would be inclined to bike to school, which is an interesting idea. So we'll see if they go through with that. >> Um also on the 23rd, so the following day, Kip and I went to Maple Street School um to visit. Um we talked with the fourth graders um at lunches um about spear week uh mainly because it was tropical day so they were very
004excited about that. Um we talked about their book clubs uh their earth day projects um and then also um their specials that they're doing. Um and then we got to go sit in with Mr. Wells um six sixth grade uh class during their flex period. um we got to talk to them sort of about like what we do as students and also they could ask us questions and then we were sort of interested in hearing about like what they're thinking about um which is mainly just the transition to the middle school next year which they're all pretty nervous about. I think some of them are excited as well but I do think the sixth grade teachers do a great job of preparing them and I think you know they'll they'll be great. Um but yeah
005after that Mr. Wells was going to teach them about social media wellness from the Fly Five book, which I thought was interesting. Um, interesting to see that type of instruction getting moved earlier and earlier. Um, which, you know, is helpful in these times. Um, and then on the Friday before break um was the Hopkin District Festival, which is a music sort of whole district, um, day with band in the morning and chorus in the afternoon. Um, I really enjoy the festival. Um, just being able to play with um sort of band students from different ages as well as um perform for them and hear what they're working on. Um, you know, being in band since like fourth grade, it's really cool to see kids sort of doing the same thing and be a being able
006to talk to them um about a common interest is always really good. Um, yeah. And then moving to after break. Um yeah, just a really busy time of year. AP exams have started. Um I believe all of them are offsite, so at Camp Methodius or at the um SPCA like classroom building across the street in conquered. Um and then sports are going well. Um I believe all teams are having a pretty good season so far. Um notably yesterday girls lacrosse beat um Bow, which is their biggest rival. So, I know they were excited about that. >> Um, senior spring festivities, which um I think Kip would obviously be more knowledgeable about, but um sort of on a more negative note, um senior assassin did get cancelled. I know that's always like sort of a contentious
007thing every year, okay, but it just sort of escalated too far this year and the school and the police department decided to call it, which you know, with safety in mind, I think that's that's a good decision, but definitely going forward, we'll have to keep in mind if that's something we want to keep running. Um, earlier this week, they also had a senior dinner, um, which is not the same as the barbecue that they have every year. I think that was like a new thing. But yeah, definitely getting closer to graduation. Got less than a month. So, um but yeah, upcoming um I met with Mr. Kelly today um and with Carsten from the news club to work on starting to get security redesign presentations out um to the whole student body. Um and then
008we've got prom on Saturday. Uh it is looking like it's going to rain, which is great. Um, and then also the best buddies walk is on Saturday as well. Um, yeah, I think that's all. >> Any questions for Lucy? >> Wait, it is going to rain or it's not going to rain? >> It is going to rain. >> So, and then the backup plan's going to be the auditorium. >> Um, we're still trying to figure it out. Um, I know they went to the state house last year, but there's not really a ton of room there. >> So, for if people wanted to see like the prom photo situation, if it's a cool pill, what time does it usually start? 5 5 or 5:30. >> Okay. Yeah. >> Yeah. Okay. Um >> the other idea
009was like the covered bridge and like the gazebo, but I don't I don't know. We'll see where we end up. >> That's kind of a fun idea. >> Yeah. >> Go ahead. >> I What color is your dress? >> Oh, it's navy. >> Okay. Had to know. But I well I wanted to say like just how um I appreciate your updates, how thorough and um just how you were such an excellent student representative to the school board like so poised. Uh but I had questions about the security redesign presentations to students with a focus on like the changing of the back entrance, right? And what that's going to so that's going to be a highlight of those student presentations or can you ensure that that is a highlight of those student presentations >> like the
010back like the gym entrance? >> Mhm. >> Yes. >> Right. Yeah. >> Okay. >> We can be sure to to talk about that. >> Okay. That that's going to change. >> Yes. The students will be walking around. >> Yep. Okay. >> As in. >> Yes. >> Perfect. That's it. >> All right. That's a great update. >> Okay. Cool. Anything else? How many AP exams next week? >> Next week >> for this week and next week combined. >> Um >> for her personally >> like for me for you. >> Oh okay. Um I had one this week so far and then I have one tomorrow and then two next week. So four to >> good luck. Good. You're going to be great. >> I will meet. >> You will know. You'll be great. Um okay cool.
011Uh all right board comments. Anybody? Where are we looking? Okay. So, I think it's notable. You guys might have brought this up, but I don't know if this was happened before, but um open enrollment, did you talk about that bill? So, open enrollment, the universal open enrollment bill, SB 101, um was rejected by the New Hampshire House 168 to 184, which is pretty notable. I know we've talked about it a lot as a district um at our meeting and also a lot in in this forum with schoolboard meetings. And um I think I can say that we were nervous about the impact that it would have on um both our students and our staff and also our ability to finance education here in Hopington. So I feel like this is a great win at least
012for now. Um and it feels really nice that I think that happened. So >> cool. Anything else? >> That's one of the bills, right? >> One of the bills. There's another one >> time to attach. >> Y >> which is still a live bill. >> Yeah. So work continues. Um, all right. Anything else? All right. We have the Ozram team here in full force. Can you guys come up and tell us and show us all the things? >> Why is there a microphone? >> Hello everybody. >> Thank you. Uh recently this year we started uh two FTC teams, more snacks and snacks first. Uh they were pretty successful this year. One of them made it to the New Hampshire uh state championship and that year they did pretty good there. Uh and then we plan
013to continue to do that next year as well as running our uh XRP summer camp again uh score summer camp a room experience which is where we excuse me got the students for our FTC teams. We did a uh summer camp using XRPs which are little robots about 6x6 uh they're distributed by I think WPI >> uh and we use those to kind of teach them some basic engineering aspects as well as some programming and kind of how the general idea of uh FTC would work where you would have an autonomous period and a teley operated period. Uh and I think they did pretty good with that. >> Uh next slide again. Then we have our first robotics competition team. You've seen us year after year. Uh that is 1922. That's our ball from this
014year and the game as well. Next slide. So our competitions from this year we went to Northshore over in Reading. We got what was it? 23rd first pick of the fifth alliance and then match 13 which is semi-final. So right four finals is how far we made it in the double elimination bracket. Uh then UNH we ranked seven uh first pick of the third award and then match 13 again. Uh we also got the creativity award at UNH and the sustainability award at Northstar which was huge for us because we had leaned in really far in sustainability which you can see in the the handout we have there. Uh mostly because uh our sister team uh or not sister team, sister school uh John Stark backed out of the program to start events, which is
015perfectly fine, but we lost a little bit of funding and a bunch of students from that. >> Uh so we decided to lean heavily sustainability to make sure the team could continue year after year so the town and school would still continue to have a robot team so we could keep bringing STEM to Hington. >> Amazing. Wow. Uh then at New England District Championships, we placed seventh again and were the captain of the fifth Alliance. Uh we made it to match 13 again. Uh and that qualified us for worlds where I think we ranked 18th out of the 75 teams in our division. >> I think our current world stats are 141st worldwide. So the top 4% I Um, next slide. >> Thank you guys. >> Yes, right there. >> We are fourth in New
016Hampshire out of 30 something teams ranked for 400 New England teams ranked 14th. 3,152 teams in the world. We are at 114th and 3,792 teams. We are at 141st which as I said is top 4%. >> That's impressive. You We also have the uh usual offseason plans of go baby go fun fair and battlecry which all land on the same day this year so be very busy. >> Uh we'll also be present at the July 4th celebration and we'll be running our XRP and FTC summer camps. >> Awesome. >> Any questions? >> How many? Yes. Wait, how old what are the ages for the summer camps? >> So, the summer camps, I believe, are going to be our uh sixth through through 8th graders. >> Okay, >> cool. And are they at the schools? >>
017Yes. >> Okay, cool. Go ahead. I don't want to >> um we're going to have one of them at the American Region. >> Oh, cool. >> Okay, great. When how do people sign up for summer camp? >> We'll be sending us some information. >> Great. Thank you. um for like when you guys are at the 4th of July, I saw I was looking at the sustainability. Do you have um information on how the community can support you when you are at these different events? >> I'm sure we'll have something available. >> We'll have a banner that will have a QR code >> to donate. Okay. >> Yes. So we can all continue to support you. That's amazing work. >> Is this the best that you guys have ever done in terms of project? >> No.
018There was one year in 2010. >> All right. >> Made it to the finals. >> The best in 16 years. >> It's been a long long time. And if you go look that back at the stats, there was a lot less teams back then. So total amount of teams, you're technically ranked in a higher percentage. >> Yes. If you are growth adjusted, you are technically the best. >> Technically the best. >> That's right. >> Can can you talk a little more about what it means to focus on sustainability? Like what is what is that? >> Right. So our sustainability goals over the year have been to grow the team by 50%. >> Wow. >> So that could mean 50% more money, 50% more students because we have four seniors on the team that will all
019be graduating. And as a team of 14, that's a really big impact. >> Um we've also been trying to make sure that we're reusing as much stuff as possible. So electronics, any hardware that we can reuse in the next year, we try to do as much as possible. Uh we've also been leaning pretty heavily into making sure that the lunches we get are cheap but effective. So we've been having families bringing stuff for Saturday meetings so the team can spend more money on robots and bringing students places instead of food for the weekends. >> Thank you. >> Are you making like round 13 sweatshirts given that that was like your situation. >> We might. That was uh That was Mechanical's goal for the year was to make it to match 13 and >> match 13.
020Yeah. >> You were successful in doing so. >> I think you should do it. It's pretty amazing. >> It sounds cool, too. >> Yeah. Match 13. Yeah. >> Um other questions? >> May I How many of you graduate this year? >> Four. Myself, Judah, and Sarah. We have one more student who wasn't able to make it today. Warren, and he is also graduating. if you want the roles for ourselves. I am the strategy lead. So I I work on robot strategy and basic robot design. This is our mechanical lead. He works on making it he works on making sure everything that I ask of the robot to be able to do can actually do it. Um Sarah's our sustainability lead. Um she works on completing goals and she's also our safety captain. I know was
021our digital workers. >> Talk to me about how Ozram has prepared you for kind of the next step for those of you that are graduating or preparing to graduate in the next year or two. Like what do you think you want to study and and what role has OSAM played in that? >> Um so my journey will be continuing at Western New England and meatronics. um meatronics is mechanical engineering. It is very similar to mechanical engineering with electronics involved. So it is basically the same thing I've been doing in Ozram. Um I'm just taking it forward. Um so a lot of the things I've learned from Ozen, you know, working mechanical are going to help me succeed in that class. And it's um also showed me where I want to go in life. Uh when
022I first joined the team, I had no idea where I wanted to go past high school. Um and so it kind of set me on a nice foot forward where I want to go. >> Uh very similarly, I will be going into electromechanical atworth. >> This was mostly inspired by me doing a lot of building on the robot. So I was heavily involved in the wiring, the assembly, the design. So I wanted to carry that forward a little bit further. uh and Ora was a huge help for me because I was unsure if I wanted to go more computer side or more physical >> but uh yeah was able to show me that I wanted physical more than digital. >> Awesome. >> And then for me I'm going into mechanical engineering at Clarkson University for
023a lot of the things that we do especially go has sort of helped me decide that I want to go into a career making prosthetics for people with disabilities and mobility disabilities. So it's ability disabilities uh for people that struggle with that especially um in my family I've had issues similar to that so helping those related to me I feel like big benefit for my community and United States and the world >> I agree I agree >> it's great >> Jonathan Jonathan did you guys watch the Artemis um departure uh takeoff and landing together My god. >> Well, I do watch it, but no, it was not a group activity. >> Oh my god. I tell you, I watched it with my kids like taking off. Great. I mean, I watched the Challenger like I
024think most of us did, but also re-entry. I was like, "Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god." Oh my god. That's the hard part. Getting into space and getting back down. >> Oh my god. And when they're like, "We don't really know if the heat shield's going to work." I'm like, "Oh, cool. Great." >> But it did. Sorry. Sorry. Yep. Sorry. Um, uh, I had one more question, but I'm forgetting this. Oh, and then what was the hardest thing that you guys had to do over the course of the season? >> It was what, 27? >> Yeah. So, I guess our mechanically, our hardest challenge this year, um, was the amount of iterations we went through on everything, specifically looking like the spindexer. So, this season, we focused on making as many prototypes
025as possible in order to figure out what was most effective. Um, the spindex took 20 something iterations to get finally into a place where we're really happy with it. Um programming issues a lot of it is we wanted to push ourselves past what we've never had in the past. So we've always kind of gone just make it work. Yeah. >> This year we wanted to really exceed. So we focused a lot into our atomics routines and focus >> making distance from any shooting from any distance really fixed work. So it's been a lot of math that we had to get it out. That's a lot of math. >> Yeah, >> that's intense. Okay, cool. All right, do we get to see we get a demo? >> Let's do it. Congratulations, you guys. This is amazing.
026>> Oh, yeah. Come on up. Sorry. >> Was challenging. We took a lot of reflection every improvements from there. We did that end of the year retrospective and look back and decided that we would make some changes to how we go about doing the designs. We used to lock in design pretty early and um and that was pretty much it. Didn't really want to change a whole lot. After that, we decided this year to do to keep it open for the first week. So, we have about eight weeks to get the game, how we want to play it, design it, build it, test it, code it, practice with it. what you see is unbeliev um so we held the design open because there are alliance middle organization and teams that post all the research and
027prototypes so we can learn from that so we did that and then throughout the season as Eli was saying we kept iterating on these parts so if it wasn't quite working the way we wanted to um we we did we changed it so in some cases these pieces like the collector that Judah just pulled out We uh we rebuilt that six or seven times. Um and we would do that between events and we have about a week to come over fabricate get on make sure it works. So pretty rapid turn around lots of hours but lots of great great kit. >> I think we're going to try to run this now. Um normally as Eli was saying we have a target and um this will use show the cameras. It uses those cameras to know
028exactly where that target is and how far away it is. And then we're calibrating the shot for that. We don't have a target. So, uh, it's going to go some distance. I think we'll be okay here, but apologies in advance. Okay, good. >> It's going to dynamic. It's robotics. It's really exciting. So, really at a high level, um, what the way this plays Okay, here we go. to go. Okay, >> this is exciting. >> Um, so the game this year, so the way it works is competition. There's two teams with three robots each. They go out to achieve accomplish task. >> Um, this task this this year was to pick up these yellow balls. We pick up as many as you can fit into your robot. We have max size we can make it and
029so on and then diluted them shoot them into a into a hub and work work together to do that as an alliance. Um and so we will we can that collector will go out, we can drive around, pick up the fuel, fill it up and we get roughly 80 fuel into the into the robot and then shoot shoot it. takes about 12 seconds or so, 10 12 seconds for us to compete and via the hopper, which is really really great. Super proud of that as you might talk about where we stand. Obviously, it's pretty quick relative to everybody else. Just give a comparison top teams in the world pretty much. So, anyway, um >> wow, this is absolutely amazing. Um we have gotten I would say every every ounce of uh anything all capabil everything
030out of this thing. So >> amazing shower runs back. a lot of controls. Use >> is require a line in >> we don't have a demo. Sorry about that. >> I totally get it. You know >> it's always competition. >> It's ready to win. Can people see that it's going by someone else? >> Amazing. >> Has the number of shots on that? >> Yeah. Do you see the Yeah. You see it? >> Really? 18,000. >> Wow. Really? >> 18. >> Do you have a counter? Do you have like a logger that's all? >> We don't have a counter. they use. So it's it's uh the whole um FRC community is fascinating. All these sites that have all these stats and everything else. >> Um they don't actually count how many fuel, but they can start
031to get a really excellent approximation based on all the matches you can play and scores that came out of them and so on. >> That's awesome. >> Tons and tons. So if anybody um just put a little camera, >> do we only do like just this this thing here or we do other stuff, right? >> We do other stuff like we do marketing. We do marketing. We do our outreach events like um that live that we have. We do the go baby go. We do fourth of July. We recently started also, excuse me, uh started doing the meet bingo that we're doing with the American Legion now. Uh we've been doing bake sales now as well. Uh, one of the parents of one of our members is doing that and we're going to be doing
032that pretty much every single year now. >> So, while the season is happening, we're doing all of this and we're doing this during the offse. >> Do you go to like Harold Barton to start doing like pre-recruitment and show them how the robot works because it's pretty awesome. >> Not really. At this moment, we don't. I mean, we used to have a team. Um, I thinkl team is what we had, but we ended up not having any teachers at that time interested in really hosting it. >> Oh, yeah. No, I think it's like just let them see it because it's so awesome and they will like know. >> Show it off like fun. >> Fun. >> Yeah. Well, it's very uh it's awesome. The kids love it. We go to fair and there'll be some
033kids feed the robot. Okay. You got to go somewhere. Oh, no. That's awesome. >> Really cool. >> So maybe uh could you just tell what it's would do if it was going to shoot? >> Yeah. Can we just while you guys do that? >> Okay. So when the robot is supposed to shoot um as you saw the collector um down here at the bottom this is that 20 iteration device that's spindexer inside the robot >> with this stick here. It will actually push the fuel into this tower here. This tower is a feeder. This feeder will run the fuel all the way up and inside this metal box here is our shooter wheels. It's a 6-in flywheel and two wheels that will get pulled through and launched out the top. Work cool when it's not
034running. >> Do you have to aim the ball too? Like cuz you have to aim and hit something. Yes. >> So it's um there's a big funnel of the field and you have to get them up into that. >> Okay. You could shoot with an entire line of stone. >> Okay. >> And so when we first went to the first event, we started with just set distance shooting and it would use um there's QR codes in the field called pickle tags and that will help us determine our position and we can use that to auto line to where the hub is set up and also a distance. Um, and we were able to then do math to find out how far we were to actually how fast to spin the flywheel and we could shoot
035in any distance. And then after that, we were able to calculate how to shoot while driving with a fixed shooter. >> Yeah. >> So once they have set up, they say shoot the driver. >> This is amazing too. We'll auto auto align and calculate the distance and just go. So he doesn't have to do anything besides get kind >> one of our you know really cool superpowers these guys worked out is that >> we didn't calculate it but I'd say we probably have >> upper 90s uh shot accuracy that we put up goes in which is not a lot of teams do that. So, so we >> trial for basketball. >> Yeah. >> Why? Why the terminology fuel? >> Oh, yeah. Uh because they uh they try to have some sort of theme for the
036game for the year. And um this was called rebuild. Um was still not sure they didn't explain some of these very well. Um but in the in the game parlance, the walls are called fuel, >> right? But I noticed that I was just curious. I'm not sure quite why from an older game. They took aspects of all these previous games. >> So the hub kind of that the that we shot into was similar to a game from years ago. >> And in one of the games years ago, the piece was called Fuel Fuel. So they took that as >> just random. >> Yeah. Pretty much just random thing is inside the teaser for the game. your your actual goal. Um, you're shooting fuel into the hub and you're refueling machinery >> to continue working because
037it was like an archaeology digging exhibition kind of stuff. So, refueling machinery was kind of like their whole thought. >> Yeah. Do you know that Michael Jordan only had an 84% free throw percentage? So, >> way better guys. 90s is pretty sick. So, greatest athlete on the court and you guys crush it. How do you guys um make sure that so clearly you know a lot so how do you make sure that the knowledge that you have is passed on to future students? >> So that's a great question and something we actually looked about last season. So um in the past we had open like a open signups around so you can join no matter what if you're in college or an offse and we had changed that so you can only join in the
038offse now so that you have time for us to prepare you so we can put more focus into the build season. So our offse are normally filled with sorts of projects. Um so back in Judah's freshman sophomore year he had a tote bot. You've seen it at our July festival. It's a yellow tote with a tiny robot inside that let you drive around. Um this year's awesome project is going to be a little bit more advanced than that or another robot that's competition ready. Um we're hoping to get that one out. Um so it's just about project driven and then being able to pass down and letting younger students kind of take more advantage of that and take more lead while the seniors kind of work on stepping back um from projects >> to work
039on. >> Yeah. Right. >> Get to work on the work stuff. the entire team. >> You'll learn all work and we'll have discussions. Um, one thing that we did a lot this year is fishbowl. So, there's an outer group. Um, and we were always, you know, trying to get many people like you're not working, come to the fishbowl, listen in, and take what you can take from conversation. Um, because there was a lot of conversations that went into making the robot as powerful as it is. And so, um, you know, making sure that students are getting information while products being made um during the competition season. So, a lot of the getting your basics, the fundamental zone, you can turn a wrench, you can plug in wires, and then the competition is watching that put
040into action so that you can >> amazing. >> Okay, this is incredible. >> I'm going to give this one more time. Go ahead. Go for it. >> We'll see it goes the trick here. >> Or it might hit >> or might hit Lucy. Ketchup. He's good. >> He's got it. He's got it. >> Do I try auto? >> You just um turn it just a little bit and didn't drive this way. >> Yeah. >> So, one of the things they're really cool about these robots now is they have what's called drive on them and >> they can um you can see it can it can spin. >> Yeah. It's like going in a straight line but spinning at the same time. So, uh, it gives us extremely high levels of maneuverability. >> It's much faster
041than I thought it was going to be. >> It's a little bit of a brain twister to try to drive it around. >> So, they have something called field oriented control. Regardless of which way the robots pointed, forward is that way. All that is that way. Otherwise, no way you can. >> Amazing. >> So, we're going to do a quick swap here and we're going to get the FTC bot out. Drive it over here and and have that run real quick. >> Okay. Do >> you have access to like the source codes? >> No. >> If someone had extra 8020 lying around, do you guys want it? >> Like the metal parts, the metal rails. >> Maybe uh usually slightly bigger scale than what we use, but um >> if someone happen to have an
042extra pile, maybe handing on knowledge. We're starting to develop some more curriculum so the programmers have you know sets of steps that they can go through different levels. >> All right. So while they're getting it out, I will share that sustainability to me not only means saving materials and saving the environment, >> but it also means sustainability of the team and transferring the knowledge from those four you part of that the next generation is probably the hardest thing to do in a first team. >> I would say especially for I mean we tackle that a little bit early on with our FTC team now. So, we've made it so that during the XRP summer camp, excuse me, they're able to get early on training. So, if they decide to continue first and go to first
043robotics, they already have pretty much all the training they need. It just gets it's a bigger robot. That's all it really is. I mean, it's a little more complicated because then you use power tools, but at their stage, you're already learning, okay, how do I solve a problem? It's still the same challenge. It's the rebuilt sort of theme. >> Um, but for them, just a smaller rope. That's all it really is. >> And then in terms of sort of passing on the knowledge, I mean after first for us, uh we can go to college and oftent times we have a lot of our alumni that come back as mentors. >> So one of our mentors, his name is Evan, Evan Shinderwolf. He comes back every year during our during art season for strategy because that's
044mainly what he does. Um so that's part of sort of uh continuing the knowledge within our community. >> And I mean there's times where we go to different like classrooms or like the during the club day when we're introducing our team or like okay here this is this is what we are if you're interested in doing sim we're here for you. >> So it's always sort of nudging that we're a team and sort of we're supporting our community in the best way we can. >> We've also started a STEM foundation this year as well. So getting in funds and stuff is easier for us. It doesn't have to go straight through the school which makes it easier for people that want to be anonymous or just sort of the in general. >> Amazing. Let it
045go, guys. Did >> that answer your question? >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> All right. >> So, this is the much smaller scale to play on a 12T by 12t field. This year's goal was to get these uh balls called artbacks, right? >> And then to shoot them into a shoot them into a goal. So, you're gonna see, >> right? Great job. >> The right way. >> I can hear. >> Oh, yeah. Yay. >> So, much much smaller scale, but um same same types of things, right? Gota got to do something with this uh with this ball and get it delivered. So, Um, we had two teams each other. >> Nice. >> That's amazing. >> Great. >> Better than that. >> All right, Judah, are we all set? >> Stop. >> One lesson. Okay. All right.
046Then we gota we got to wrap up here. And while they're doing that to go back and there's so much stuff we just lost the wheel >> you know I talk about sites that have statistics right uh it's just huge part of do so it's not just you know design and build that um there's programming um it's like a hard statistics there's um fundraising uh money management we spent a huge amount of money on materials a few years ago now we had one student who was really into that he would take manage pack everything order all the orders together the coach could just hit the you know the buy button. So there's lots of different roles for everybody. It's not just >> Yeah. >> Um you know we hear stories every once in a while.
047Oh it's too hard. Oh no. Everybody >> that's amazing. >> Is there a public speaking aspect of it? I've noticed that you you guys have been excellent at explaining uh and you seem very comfortable. Although you have been very comfortable presenting at our actual events. In order for us to get awards, we have to present all our information to judges. >> Okay. >> So, it's not like there's a script we can read. Sure. >> I mean, then we have like our sustainability booklet that we made this year. That's a new thing that has sustainability and our engineering stuff all within that. >> So, we can refer to that, but all the information that we have is pretty much in our head. >> Yeah. >> I mean, there is some times throughout the season where we
048are practicing our speeches a lot. Most of it is just on the fly. Let's talk about what we can talk about. So, but we just know the team well enough where we can talk about the set. So, >> I mean, but then for our younger students, they're this is their experience. They're getting to sort of be here, listen to us talking, but they're next year, we're not going to be here anymore. So, they will be the ones talking to judges because we need the awards. >> The awards help us get to worlds, help us get to the district championships, and we need to get them. That sort of shows for our team that we're pushing forward every year. That was our goal this year is pretty much >> getting even in the districts cuz last
049year we did not make the districts. >> Yeah. Well, forunate. >> You got that. You mean you did pretty well. >> World crash. >> Amazing. >> Well done. >> All right. Judy all set. >> Deploying. >> Any other questions while we wait? >> Yeah, we do have they do have also um we'll talk at meetings sometimes they'll be talk presenting different information. So even a lot that do some public public presentation >> within my role oftent times safety is a huge thing within the team we have flying balls so you need safety we have electronics and wires so safety presentations everyone is it's mandatory for everyone that has to get a safety training if you do not get a safety training you cannot touch the robot what's so everybody here has had their own version
050of safety training that's amazing smart probably. >> All right. Can we take a picture? >> Can we take a picture with you guys? >> Absolutely. >> Great. Let's do it. >> Okay. >> Should we get the robot in? >> I think we could try to get the robot. >> Yeah. >> Can we also take a picture with the robot? >> Yep. >> Thank you guys. >> Why not get the all the students everything around the take a picture guys around the robot? >> Know how much money we have? All right. So, organize themselves. Get around the get around there. And short people in the back. >> I just see if anybody's paying attention, right? Okay. Uh, squeeze in. Uh, everybody. Yep. Okay. >> You can see a camera. You can see a camera. You're good.
051>> Thank you. theater group. >> Okay. >> I just want to let her know they're all here. >> And anyone know who's not here in the theater? >> My child. >> I don't know. Oh, I changed the term. I was like, >> would you like us to leave this at all? >> I think so. >> Back to the school and pick up some. Thank you. >> Um, >> I think we have to check it out. >> All righty. >> I'll put it. >> Okay. Thank you so much. >> Oh, yeah. Sure. All right, you so match. >> So bring this up. You know, uh, world is a really interesting opportunity for us to go to. So it's six different teams from around the world. We were next to a a pit uh people that were
052next to us. So we all get 10 by10 space our robot and our tools and everything else. Team came from Turkey. They uh they had quite a story. They they uh forgot to fill out they didn't fill out the paperwork to get it shipped in time. >> So they took their robot apart. They put it in their suitcases. They carried it over there and they assembled it. Never looked that. But everybody helped them as well too. So, it's an amazing community of of teams that just helps everybody else make sure stuff gets done. Um, just getting a chance to be with 600 other teams from around the world. Uh, make new friends, get to see amazing amazing robots, um, and connect with with old teams that um, there was a team there that we uh,
053last time, well, not the last time, in 2010 when we went and they were our pit mates. They were near us again this time. So, it's great to just go over and get, you know, reconnected with them. >> That's great. >> Um, so this is going to be a, you know, uh, real quick, let's be one of the matches that we played. I think it's a high score. >> You get an idea how game plays. >> Yeah, it's amazing. It's like hungry hungry hippos. >> Mad. But during this time, this is autonomous. These robots are all acting on their own. There's nobody driving >> really. >> Yes. You'll see some of them go in, shoot, come back out, collect more fuel, go back in, and when it gets down to two. Okay, so that's the
054end of autonomous. At this point, the driver will take over. >> This is us right here if anyone's curious. >> Oh, yes, I am curious. >> Wow. >> Whoa. So, it's not actually a very big funnel. >> No, it's about 102 in by 42 in. >> So, it's pretty. >> You're shooting a lot of balls. >> Definitely. Yeah. >> So, I think the statistics here is it's almost like eight or nine million people were shot. So, eight or nine million people were shot and went in and counted. >> Mhm. >> Are you allowed to push one another >> anytime? >> Yeah. >> Oh, yeah. I play bumpers. >> Okay. I'm I'm like I feel like I see them pushing each other out of the way. >> The collisions can get pretty big. Um we actually
055took um a hit from one of the best teams in the world. Um, and they had a very fast, very sturdy robot and they hit us and they messed our collector up pretty bad. Um, so we had a pretty quick turn around to get that fixed. Um, but yeah, it you definitely take some big hits. You'll dish out some big hits. Um, >> that's amazing. >> Very cool. >> Oh, that one has a lot of balls. >> If people have not been to a competition for robotics in person, I highly highly recommend it. It's amazing. That was Oh, look. There's a ground view, too. I didn't see that. >> So, the teams, you can see the yellow arrow up at the top. Teams take turn, you know, they got a period set period of time
056they can shoot. Um, so right now, the red team is trying to collect up fuel and get it sort of stockpiled on their end. >> So, when they get a chance to shoot, they can run through their their stockpile. Now, it's going to their side. um defensive strategies or stuff like you go over there and you steal stuff out of their stockpile um to try to keep them from scoring so many points or fill up your own robot and um right so they can't have the fuel that you're carrying around. We're going to get ready because the uh it's about to switch back so soon as it switches back you know blue's blue alliance is shooting straight away. >> Where's your where I've lost track of where you are. >> Uh we just have to
057move to the only blue spot. >> Okay. Yeah. We're the really tall one. >> Oh, >> now we can't see you, right? You're >> behind the hub right now, unfortunately. >> It's okay. >> You can see us through the >> Oh, great. >> So, that's that's what it should have done in here. Um, but >> we actually don't know why that because we did a presentation last morning and it was >> It's okay. >> It's fast for today. >> It's totally good. >> He's a little tired. >> So, that's it. So that was uh was it 602 or eight points we scored. So that was our high score match. >> Wonderful. Fantastic. Hey, look at that. >> Way to crush six. So we had one more match for this that we won that put us
058into rank three for a good period of time which is pretty cool. >> Oh yeah, you're number six. >> That's amazing. Thank you guys so much. >> Thank you. >> All right. Really appreciate it. Ozram, you guys should be wicked proud of yourself. >> Thank you. >> Wicked proud. All right. Next up, we have another student group. Thank you guys. We have our performers from A Wrinkle of Time. Could you guys come on up and introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about your performance and preparation and directing? >> Um, hi everyone. I'm Fiona. I'm the director. I'm just going to introduce them briefly and then you can talk to them. But, um, yeah, we did A Wrinkle in Time in April. It went very well, I think. Um, I'm really proud of them.
059I've known some of these kids since they were in sixth grade. Um, and it's just been really cool to see them take on these super challenging plays and do such an amazing job. Um, so without further ado, here's the cast of A Wrinkle in Time. >> Hi. Um, I'm Lia Salo. I've been doing the school play since my sophomore year, so coming up on three years. Um, and I played the part of Charles Wallace this year in A Wrinkle in Time. >> Um, hello. Uh, my name is Rex Davis. Um, I played the role of Meg this year at A Wrinkle of Time. This is only my this was only my second year. Um, last year I was a a pirate. But, um, it's just a it was a really awesome experience um, last year
060and it definitely like made me want to come back this year and I'm really glad that I did because we have an awesome cast and we work really hard. So, Um any like questions, comments, I'll be happy to answer them. Yeah, >> but just um talking about like the theater department in general. Um I'm not very sporty. I feel like that's kind of obvious. Um I've never been sporty. I have tried like pretty much every sport on the table. I played lacrosse when I was younger. I played softball. I played soccer. Nothing was really like a good fit for me. Um and then when I started doing like theater, I was in middle school. Then happened. So, I had like a long break where I wasn't like doing any extracurricular activities. And then my sophomore
061year, I saw the play was going to be Dracula, and I love Dracula. I love vampires. And I was like, "Oh my gosh, like I have to get in on that." >> And just ever since it's been like so nice to have an extracurricular activity that makes you feel like you're like, this is kind of corny, but like a part of something because our school is very like very sports and it's cool. It's great to see like everyone going and doing sports and like we have great teams. Um but it has always kind of made me be like oh like I wish I had something like that. So like theater is kind of my outlet and my opportunity to like be a part of something and participate in something that makes the school better like
062draws in revenue and like it's just very cool to have that sort of like creative outlet. Um and I very much enjoy it and we work like very hard. We put in like hours of work. Um a lot of memorization especially people who are like newer to theater. Um it takes a lot of courage to like stand on the stage and you know deliver your lines remember them all you know have confidence in yourself and like it's really like a great exercise in like building confidence too like public speaking all of that kind of like plays a part in theater and it's just overall like a great experience both like personally and like character building in general. So >> yeah, sorry I'm talking mic right now. >> Can we have Mr. Murray behind you? Can
063you you guys introduce yourself too? Hi. >> Um I'm Michael. I'm a sophomore. I'd also just like to add that this is my second year doing these plays. I also 12 night last year and my first real play was in eighth grade and I've never been a super confident person but ever since I started with that play in 8th grade Alice at Wonderland, I definitely felt myself you know getting more out there. So I'm really grateful for the plays have the opportunity to kind of like build my confidence and practice performing just like in general. It's the stage in my opinion. >> It's true. >> It's it gets there's definitely times where it's hard and you don't feel as confident. It's really tempting to just give up on it. But >> um continuing with theater
064has always been so helpful for me and it's helped me meet so many great people and I would hope that it just gets bigger every year. >> Amazing. >> You're on equal footing. >> And do we have Mrs. Who? I can't remember who you are. Are you M? >> No. >> Who are the insect? >> You are the insect. and the redeye man. >> And Dennis. >> Yes. Little small child. >> Yes. Twins. >> So, uh, I've been doing theater since the sixth grade. I came in for first play they offered to us basically. And uh I've always just kind of liked theater since, but I've specifically liked the play department like around the middle school or like this play. >> Um I did the play last year and I did this year and it's
065always just been a fun experience and a good outlet for me. All the plays. >> Yeah, they're fun. I like them. Well, what was cool about the play this year, correct me if I'm wrong, is you guys had the same like the same folks who did it last year were in this year. So, you really had two years of like working together. And I feel like you could really tell. I mean, there was for anyone who didn't go, you really missed out. This was fantastic. I went both nightsc um I loved it. Uh but there was so much blocking. You guys were in different places all the time. Um, it was just I mean it might be one of my favorites. It was really good. >> There was a lot of work put into this
066explaining. >> I mean, you could you could tell though. >> Yeah. >> And I'm reading A Wrinkle in Time right now to my kids and it's actually like extraordinarily accurate in terms of the dialogue that's in the book and what you guys did in the play. It was great. >> Yeah. And Rex and Lydia's um speeches made me cry. So >> yeah, >> which like to be fair, I do cry a lot. Uh, but they were outstanding and you guys were, I think, really moving with your with your senior conference. So, you should be really proud of yourself. >> Any other questions for our our uh theatrical um superstars? >> Well, I will say it was one of the best plays I've seen. >> Yeah. Right. >> Yeah. >> We're the we have three seniors
067and one of them tonight. So, we um she's actually working on she's a different Shakespeare production right now. So, she's doing that. Mhm. Wow. Are you going to continue? Like, are you going to do some community theater? Are you going to study theater? Like, what's the plan? >> Um, I'm going to art school in Georgia. >> Not just any art school. Which art school are you going to? >> Scad in Georgia. >> And um while I'm not like personally pursuing theater like or acting as a major, I would love to like get into community theater and like do smaller shows because I genuinely like I love theater so much. Like it's so much fun. like it's just such like a nice texture activity to have. So, I'll probably continue if I can. So, >> um
068I'm unfortunately I'm going to a very small school in Maine. Um main design. >> Um so, unfortunately there's no theater program there, but it's also in the heart of Portland. So, I'm sure that >> community theater, there's so much there. Yes. >> I could go and be a play. All right. Awesome. >> That's marvelous. >> Um I think the the only thing that I would say is that I really feel like that an advertisement has to go out from Harold Martin and Maple Street and Maple might do it, but like it's such a good play and it's such a great experience also for little kids to see you guys that every parent should bring their kids. >> Yeah, we do our best to get the word out, but I'm doing a lot of it by
069myself. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Well, next year, like, you know, I was like, "Oh, you know, this year, so I'll help, you know, started watching the productions. I was like, I got to be a part of these. >> Yeah. Nice, >> right? >> Yeah, it's amazing. Well done. Any other questions? >> No, I think the only other thing I would say to Lydia's comments about like something that brings in revenue, I would also say that the benefit of the play is that you made art. Like art in and of itself is just so valuable and I think it is >> it's just I think it is part of what makes Hopington a really special place um is like you guys. So, thank you for bringing that to us. >> Fantastic. >> It was great. Can
070we get a picture with you guys? >> Is that okay? >> Sorry. >> Oh, yeah. >> Stand by the robot. >> Well, it was really >> I wish we had a robot. >> Yeah, I was upset. >> That'd be wild if you brought a robot. You guys can >> say thank usually comes to certainly does not. >> Yeah. >> Thank you guys. >> Thank you guys. >> All right. Uh we have a special guest here. Do we want to jump to that? >> We do. We do. >> Yes, we do. Let's do it. >> Amy Doyle. >> This is about you, Alicia. >> Okay. We've had many special guests to be. >> So, we're joined tonight and later on in the meetings, you will formally nominate Alicia Hansen Crew uh to be the next principal
071of Maple Street. And so, Alicia is here tonight and to take a few minutes to introduce herself. Um Alicia and I have worked together in the past and I'm just so excited to be welcoming her to Hopington. So, the mic is yours. Come on up. >> Thank you so much. It's so good to be here with you all. Um, I'm so excited to come to Hopington, uh, pending nomination and approval. But, uh, Alicia Hansen Pru feeling like a a hunchback of >> um, I've been in education for more than 20 years at this point. Uh, the last nine have been in administration. Um, I'm currently a principal in NSHA and um looking to uh join the community and and dig some roots in and um really looking forward to getting to know the staff and
072the community. Um, the students already seem fantastic. I'm so impressed by all the representation and the presentations tonight. >> Um, personally, I'm a mom of three. My youngest is graduating high school this year. Um, I've got 24 year old twins who graduated college a couple years ago and uh, education is very important to us. So, um, I'm really excited to come to a community where, um, not only do I know Amy from having worked together in Marramac, but, uh, when I was taking a tour of Maple Street, um, I ran into some fellow colleagues who I had taught with in Manchester years ago. Um, so it just felt very comfortable and welcoming from the start. Uh, so I'm really excited to be here. >> Thank you for that. >> Yeah, we're excited to have you
073join us. >> We are. >> Any questions for Alicia? Sorry, you're not up yet. Yeah. >> I think we're thrilled. >> I hope a couple key things that you should know is they do have a uh hydroponic garden that they're very proud of at Maple Street. >> They have the best sustainability program of I think all the schools despite I I'll give it up, you know. Yeah, I know. It's true. >> The book vending machine is amazing. I went to school here. It has been the same for 40 years. Yeah. >> It's fantastic. >> Yeah, exactly. >> For better, for worse. But there's a lot of pride in Maple Street, I think. >> Yeah. It's a good school. It's a great little school. >> Yeah. Everyone will be thrilled. So, we're really excited. >> Cool.
074>> Anything else for Alia? We're so glad. Thank you for coming and introducing yourself. It means It means a lot. It means a lot. >> Yeah. Cool. Awesome. Thank you. >> Welcome. Welcome to meet you. Yeah, great. Yeah, you're welcome to stay if you like. We also will not be offended, Alicia, if you're like sayanara, you know. Yeah. >> Yeah. No, you really you do not need to >> we will not take up other things. >> Yeah, exactly. >> You have to you'll hear from me tomorrow with next steps. >> Perfect. >> Thank you again. >> Thank you so much. Good to meet you. >> Good to meet you. >> Good to see you again, rather. >> Yeah. >> All right. Next up, uh stuff. >> It is teacher appreciation week. >> Uh our PTA
075has done an amazing job doing the what I think is now an annual brunch at all three schools. They solicit donations. They set up the table. Um they do a lot I think to um I think try to show appreciation to our teachers who are, you know, the lifeblood of blood of our district. Um I also just want to say thank you to all of our teachers and all of our staff in the buildings. Um being educators is is is a big job. It's an important job. It's one of the most important jobs. And uh we have amazing faculty and staff here. And I am so thrilled to have our teachers doing what they do every day and caring about our students and educating them. >> Anything else you want? >> Just so thankful for
076the PTA. They do so much. And um every staff room that you go into this week is just chalk full of drinks and snacks and um stickers with inspirational messages. And they've just been so thoughtful as always. Um they put out some information today looking for some help related to the fund fair. So if anybody wants to bake some brownies or buy some brownies, they're looking for some donations. >> The cakewalk. >> They are doing the cakewalk. >> Yes. >> So the way that we could give back assemble and do the fun fair baskets. >> Oh, those are up. >> Do they need baskets? I can do or I can assemble and do baby, read the email and volunteer. >> Amazing. >> Throwback. >> Yeah. Huge thanks to the PTA. Uh they I think that
077they've done an awesome job this year. Um they also have the directory in case anyone hasn't signed up for it, but that's like a wonderful thing to get so you can contact other >> other kids parents for playdates and otherwise. Um >> and become a member. And they have meetings that are both in person on Thursdays at 5:00 p.m. and also on Zoom. So if you want >> their meeting is happening now. >> That's right. probably over. Yeah. Y amazing. All right. Next up, we have uh the non-union and administrator nominations. Um a first read. As a reminder, um these will have two reads um before they get finalized. Any question that you have about an individual uh we do we want to go into non-public for that for reputation. If you have something about
078the process, we can absolutely talk about that uh here. But if there's something where you had a question that was pertaining to personnel information, we we should go into nonpublic. So, does anyone have a need to go into non-public? >> So, I do actually have a question. >> Okay. >> That >> Okay. >> I cannot ask. >> Okay. >> Look. >> All right. Um, so can we go into non-public? So, we are going to go into non Do I have a motion to go into non-public? >> Uh, wait. I have to look at the thing under 91 A3 C for reputation. >> You do have to site it. >> You don't. >> Well, you might know. Um and we will go into nonpublic and come back out and uh resume the regular part of the
079meeting. Do I have a motion to go to non public? Yes, Jonathan. Second. >> Second. >> Great. All those roll call vote. Jonathan >> I. >> Jonathan >> as well. >> Suzanne. >> Sure. >> Yeah. Andrea. Duly I. Okay. We will go into non public. We'll see everyone. >> I open that up. We can leave our water. >> Yeah, it is. It is. It is emotional. >> Lucy, hold the port down. >> I will. >> Okay. I any opposed? Terrific. Okay, guys. Thank you so much. We are here. We have a few few more things as we round the corner towards the consent agenda. Uh we want to talk about board retreat dates just to set this up. Uh for the last fiveish years, we've had a board retreat and really the goal is to
080talk about um the strategic plan and our annual goals in relationship to the strategic plan and what we see as the needs of the district. Um, these goals are the board's goals, which are different than the superintendent's goals, which are different than the administrator goals, right? But the hope is that we can set our goals and Amy's able to run a process throughout the course of the summer to do some work with herself and her team, have them go down, have them come up, we meet in the middle, and make sure everything's cogent and cohesive and tied together. Um, some of our goals over the years have become best practices where they're just things that we do, right? Some of them are we're going to be working on them forever. Communication. I don't know if
081anyone's heard. That's a hard thing for school boards to really get an A+ on. Um but we try to do this. So we for the last couple years we've been able to have it at the library. It's a public meeting. Everyone's welcome. I just wanted to try to figure out when people >> really I mean when I first came on we did it over at Rob's house. Mhm. >> I understand the thinking, but like having done it last year at the library, like do we really can't we go back to I mean >> I guess I just uh it is nicer and I felt more cohesive the way that we started out doing it. Jamming in the library in the summer is not >> but they are supposed to be open. They have to be
082open to the public and it was before too. Right. >> Right. >> I know but in private residence it's a little different scenario like to to roll into a private residence. Granted we didn't have any visitors and I I appreciate it wasn't part of the deck at Cedar and M. >> Well so I think it's worth a couple of things. So even when we were running through the budget process the library was tied up. I have not pulled the library yet to see when their room is available. So, it is entirely possible that like we could put forth three dates. It's not possible and then we have to do >> we have it here. >> Uh yeah, depending on what it is, but >> has five. >> Yeah. But I think that we should choose
083a date and go through a couple different venues, figure out what we can do that's zero cost. And um >> I'm just raising the question. >> Maybe we can find some places that will come to it. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> And still look >> not to not to take us sideways. >> I was thinking Kimble Cabin actually. >> Interesting. Outside >> because it's lovely. >> Yeah. Um Okay. So I think um >> or the gazebo. >> Exactly. >> Amazing. >> Um we had looked at the week of the first is pretty jam-packed. We have senior parade and barbecue on the first. We have a meeting on the second. Graduation is on the 5th, June 1st. Yep. >> Um, in years past, we had used to be able to do the retreat on the same day
084as graduation. I there's a at this point a 95% chance that I might be traveling. So, uh, which I had not caught until yesterday morning. Um, so then there's a following weekend, um, following week, which we could look at June 11th, 12th, uh, 18th to 19th. 19th is a federal holiday holiday that doesn't impact the district because I think everyone's motivated to get >> out. Um but I think we could think about that and then the following week um staff wrap up on the what's the last >> 17th 18th. >> Yep. >> The students are the last days the 17th and then they have the 18th and the 19th. >> Yep. And then all the buildings are open again the week of the 22nd. Um so are there any hardline dates where people are an
085absolute nogo? Suzanne, I also recognize you're also in the end of the year and your schedule is a trifle wonky. >> I mean, how long does it need to be? >> We've done four hours in the past, but I think three to four is reasonable. I don't think it needs to be a full day anymore. >> I guess I screwed up when I misread your email earlier. >> Yeah. >> You were saying the weeks of and you gave weeks and I looked at those as specific dates. >> Nope. Yep. Which is totally okay. Yep. >> But >> yeah, >> I was going to say I'm pretty flexible. 623 has a warning block till 10:15 for me, but that that's a one day. >> The 19th is the last day for my staff, so kind of
086a no. >> Okay. Yep. >> I just have the day off on the 19th, so I don't want to >> What about on the 12th? >> The 11th or the 12th? >> Um, >> uh, the 11th. I'm I'm in Boston, >> right? >> I do the 12th. >> You're the 12th. What? >> It's a Friday. >> Friday. >> What time were you? >> Um, we could really we could do 8 to 12 or you we could do 12 to 4 or I don't know if we need to block four hours, but >> I'm just saying it's it is a work day for me. So, I'm trying to think of like when Yeah. I think I think any four block chunk in morning or afternoon is good. I would love morning, but yeah, I would like
087morning too. >> I don't mind morning, but like we start at like 9:30. >> Sure. >> Or 10 or something like that. >> 10 to 2. >> Yep. >> At what for you? That's like >> is that the worst of all the options? >> Yeah. I'm like I could start at like seven and and then I could go in or start at like two and then I could work most of the day and >> like that's what would work better for me. But but I also >> So maybe just keep pushing it and do noon to 4. >> Yeah. >> On the 12th. >> Noon to 4. >> On the 12th. >> Yeah. Because then I could at least put in your calendar. >> Let's call it noon to >> Well, we have a retirement
088party that afternoon. I would just need to be done around 3:30ish. >> Great. Let's Let's call it noon to 3. >> Okay. I don't think we need more. >> And we're still looking at the 12th. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Two. This will give us impetus to >> I'm gonna send out a calendar hold for everyone. Sorry, I know live scheduling is like both helpful and not helpful. >> Sorry everybody. >> Um big fan of the doodle hold. I know you brought that up last. >> You should do that in the future. >> I know, but it's like 30 days, you know. It's like >> Oh, that is also true. >> It's a tough thing to do. Um >> my computer wants us to do it from noon to 7. >> Okay, great. Yeah, I
089will check if you'd like to get a drink after I'm the game. I will check all the things. Okay, guys. >> It's a great idea. >> Good. Great. All right. Awesome. Next up, our May newsletter is in the folder. Andrew, can you take us through? >> I did. I So, we had been talking about our newsletter. Um, and so I put it together, folks. Let me open it up and I'll talk to you about it. Uh, hold on. It's loading. Okay. Uh so uh you will see that I have a little welcome to Alicia. Alicia, that's how you say things, right? Uh so I creeped on her LinkedIn and uh pulled some information about her uh because I I didn't have information. So uh she's very impressive um and seems lovely in person. So we
090have a little welcome for her. We had a little note. We we had real slim notes about what we wanted in this. So, >> we did. >> Uh I did what I could. So, I wrote up a little thing about preventing summer slide in math um and broke it up for elementary, middle school, and high school students. >> Amazing. >> Um I we were going to put something in here about the redesign uh project. I didn't have information. I didn't have enough information where I really felt like I could put something together. So instead, I swapped that out and put in this highlight that the US News best high schools report came out. Um, and I know part of what we are doing is, you know, we talk a lot about wanting to make sure
091that we have a variety of like avenues for our kids and that's why we're um highlighting like CRTC, but I also think it's really important that we are still celebrating things like the best high school high schools report which really looks at like AP testing. Um, and so we're seventh best high school in New Hampshire uh and first the conquered area which is fantastic. So, um, I put that in there. We had a note of wanting to keep in our our, um, hot lunch information, and so I sort of revamped what we had in an earlier newsletter. Um, so it's not total word for word. And then we had wanting to put in important dates. So, we had a great in our packet, we had a great memo with all the dates on it. Um,
092so I have a welcome to Mayber, the second busiest time of the year. Um, and it has all of the dates in there and then I I bolded some that I felt were like super important, like the last day of school and then the first day of school for next year. Um, and then graduation, senior parade, but I can bold other things if you feel like they're super important. Maybe field day. That's another big one. >> It is a big one. >> Um, so that's it. I I took out the wellness blur because we got a community member >> Laura. >> Um and that was it. That those were the only things that we needed in here. So, >> it would be great if we could get the uh Ozram camp dates. >> Oh, >>
093the link to sign up for more information. I know she said they're it'll be coming, but that would be a good place for it. >> Yeah. I wish there was like a central location for us to point to like ARAM and PTA and like like school affiliated >> clubs. I know >> this is amazing, Andrea. Thank you for doing it. I love it. It's a great way to round the corner here. >> I love the dates. I sure >> parents did. Amy, did you put together the dates? >> We uh I compiled them all from all of them. >> Yeah, it's it's like a real dance card. It was a really me thing. It's a lot happening. >> It is. But like as a I mean my kids out, but like I was like, man,
094where was this when she was 14? Just put them all together. >> That's great. Yeah. >> On your So I'll add a little blurb in there about Ozram and I'll probably put PTA in there as well. Um and then this looks okie dokie. Uh >> not going to happen this week. >> Let's do it. I'm gonna just put it together and then I'll send it to Amy. Can you send it out and you can draw it out right on behalf of us? >> Send it to me. That's what I did the last time as well. >> Yeah, I couldn't remember for some reason. >> It'll make it pretty and we'll send it out to everyone. >> I dig it, ma'am. It's pretty dope. Sorry, that's not professional. It's excellent. Thank you. I really appreciate it.
095>> Words. >> All right. Anything else on newsletter? Thanks, Jame. We have policy. >> Yeah, I'm going to keep talking. Yep. So, we have no first or second reads. We only have final reads. Um, we've had three other times to talk about these, and I think they are all ready to go. >> Um, I don't believe there was anything that needed to be changed in these. Um, I didn't do my final look right before here. Um, but so the policies we have I will take out the highlighted sections uh before or once they're done. >> You mean unhighlight them, not take them out. >> Well, yes, I will unhighlight them. Thank you for the clarification. I will take out the highlights. >> No, I will just unhighlight them. >> Yes. Mhm. >> Uh and then
096they will go into our our uh the section on our page where all the policies go. All my words are gone. So here are the policies that we have for our final reads tonight. JL DB, suicide prevention and response plan. EBCA, crisis prevention and emergency response plan. Eh, public access to school district records. Ehr, procedures for public access to district records. JIC student conduct JLCJA emergency plan for sports related injuries and additional protocols for athletics participation. Um and as a reminder for all of these policies, these are required policies. Some of them are required uh that we look at them on an annual basis. Um but all of them needed some level of updates. Uh so essentially I'm looking for a motion to approve these policies as presented. So >> moved. Second. >> Wonderful. Any
097discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? >> I opposed. >> All right. >> Thank you. >> All right. With that, you're around the corner. Consent agenda. >> Yes, ma'am. >> We'll start with our new hires and personnel report. Um, you already got to meet our wonderful nominee for Maple Street Principal, Alicia Hansen Pru. Uh we also have Casey Urgen who will be is being nominated for the Harold Martin School occupational therapist position the point8. Jessica Kota the Harold Martin School preschool teacher position that is open for next year. And David Wargo is our nominee for HMHS day custodian. Um and he will start at the end of May. So he is not a next year hire. >> That's good. resignations tonight. I just want to take a moment to mention um that Nene Allen, longtime choreographer,
098has chosen to step away from the theater program >> and so she will not be returning next year to the program. >> I want to thank her for all of her many, many years of work with our students and she will be greatly missed. >> I don't know if everyone knows this. I'm going to bring it up every time. We started as children, the two of us dancing together with Nene Allen at the Old School Community Center. And that's how Laura and I know each other from like a hundred years ago. >> Ballet. >> And a little bit of like samba at the end, you know. >> Yeah. >> For the entire Dirty Dancing soundtrack. It was like 5-year-old. >> Yeah. It was great. It was legendary. So, >> I still have my shirt. And
099Nene, if you guys have not met her, she is a um a old school New York City ballerina uh who loves choreography, loves students. She did a lot of work with the schools as well for a long time. She's a part of this past um musical. >> Yeah. And she did a lot with kids in h multiple different planes. Um so she was wonderful. We thank you for her service. >> Yeah. >> It's really missed. >> She will be Yes, she'll be greatly missed. And Joseph Montana, third grade teacher at Harold Martin has put his resignation and he will be done at the end of the school year. And I will just say that >> my son had him last year and uh that's a loss. >> He was a as far as I could
100tell a very good teacher. >> Yeah, that was great. >> Thank you. >> All right. Any questions on new hires for any discussion? >> Okay. >> Donations tonight. These are donations that we have seen before. Uh Hopin and Rotary Club is providing $1,000 to the Interact Club at her um the middle high school. They Interact is almost a sister agency to Rotary. Um I was speaking with Kathy Dano who's the treasurer at Rotary about these and she said that they provide it every year as it's part of their mission. And in addition, they're providing $1,000 to the middle high school student needs uh account that is held there for students that may need something, whether it is uh financial assistance on field trips or food or clothing. Mr. Kelly has the opportunity to use that
101money uh for what he needs. >> So, we thank Rotary for their generous donations. >> Amazing. >> And there are no financials tonight. They will come on May 19th. >> Yep. have a field trip form, right? Yes, we do. It's a very last minute edition and I'm sorry about that. Um Charlene um and the Ozam group are going to go to WPI later this month. Um and so that was a very last minute addition in your board packet. Uh they will be going on May 29th, 30th, and 31st and uh to compete at WPI. So that is uh for your consideration tonight. And then for superintendent update, I provided a list of all of the Maysecember um activities that will happen between now and graduation. >> So there's a lot together last year and you
102did a better job. I was like, dear principles, can you just give me now? They're like, do you want AP testing? I was like, I don't know. >> Can we make that public both like on the website and here? I think it is >> invaluable. Yes. um as I went through as you guys know and panicked on Tuesday for not having June fully calendared out. >> Okay, great. Um anything else from agenda? >> I just wanted to mention um that our afterchool program between school and home uh recently was named the afterchool program of the year by the New Hampshire out of schooltime conference in April. >> Uh so their board president Jamie Corwin let me know. Uh they also have will be providing a donation uh to Herald. They're at a very generous group.
103And so I just want to acknowledge Heather. Um the program director over there clearly is doing a great job and was uh recognized at that conference. I think they were surprised. At least that's what Jamie said. They weren't expecting to win anything, but but they have. So wonderful. Wonderful for them. >> If only we knew someone on the board. >> I don't know what you're talking about. >> Wait, >> that's great news. They should be really pleased. That's a big deal. >> We We have a very We're a very lucky town. >> Yes, for all these resources. Okay, great. >> Um, do I have a motion to accept the consent agenda as presented? >> So, moved. >> Second. >> All those in Any discussion? >> Great. Okay. All those in favor? >> I. All those
104opposed. >> All right. Oh, guys, let's go around the corner on committee updates. We're in the the final final quarter here. Policy, we meet on Tuesday. >> Great. Amazing. CIA we meet next Thursday two not this Thursday but the following Thursday right so nothing new to share the last meeting >> um CIP >> we meet in like a quarter I don't know >> I don't know when our date is >> okay safety and security has not met I can talk a little bit about the security redesign >> yes >> uh we are making a few design changes trying to get final MEP specs done we've had a couple of meetings over the course of last month to sit down with the architect and the builder uh to go through and make sure everything from like
105how many ballrooms do we need uh to where are we placing things to improve flow into the building to if we are hanging screens for security stuff do we have enough plugs on the wall so I think it's been a great group very thoughtful and we're we're moving stuff along as fast as we can but we'll be shovels in >> Yep. EMC, we need to we canceled the meeting right before break. Um, so we need to uh we'll be meeting against once more. The goal is to I think to I need I think I need to send you guys are meeting on Tuesday. I can send you the draft sustainability policy for you guys to discuss. Yes, I will not be a failure. That's terrific. Okay, great. >> Oh, I already have it. >> Oh,
106you do actually. You can do things. >> Yeah, I think I actually have it on our policy flow. It's Yeah, >> great. >> It's in the It's in the in the docket. >> Finance budget. You guys are meeting in two weeks. Sounds good. >> All right. Oh, that's great. I'm assuming before financials. Great. >> We meet on May 18th. >> There you go. >> Wellness. >> May 12th. >> Oh, >> virtual. >> Yes. >> Okay. Uh PD that one. >> Um we will we hopefully we'll meet by the end of the year. Okay. >> Terrific. All right. That's it. Um public comment. If you would like to come up, um please state your name and address and we ask you keep your comments at three minutes. >> There is no public comment. Any other business,
107old business? All right, we do have a need to go into uh non-public and once we go into nonpublic, we will not be coming back out into a public meeting. I'm gonna go ahead and say it, Jonathan. RSA 91 A3 2C for reputation. I know you don't think I have to say it. It's a roll call vote. >> Say the colon. >> What? I know I didn't say the colon of the princess. >> Sounds like a very long chapter head. >> That's right. Exactly. Um, it's a roll call vote, but do I have a motion to go into non-public? Second. >> All right. Johnson, >> I. >> Andrea and Susan. >> Yeah. Hey, Jonathan. >> I. >> Jonathan. >> Yes. >> Susan. >> Hi, >> Andrea. And Dalty. Great.