Congratulations to these sixth-grade students. They completed a three-hour course sponsored by Amazon in Sonya Gabbard's science class. They learned how a real-world industry uses robotics to deliver goods at Amazon. Students also heard from two Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship winners as they shared a bit about their own personal journeys into computer science.

The sixth-grade students in Sonya Gabbard's class began the school year with a PBL project to help raise money for the Aurora Public Pool. They kicked off this project meeting with Aurora Park Board members to discuss ways that they could help. Students spent a week collecting "Pennies for the Pool" throughout the building. In the end, they were able to raise $1275.00 for the pool project. Today, students once again met with Aurora City officials to officially present their donations to them. We would like to thank Mayor Mark Drury, Denise Rose, and Kathy South for allowing our students to work with them on this project. Thank you to Brooklyn Reeves and JJ South for being the spokesperson for our group. Finally, SDCSC Curriculum Director Dr. Janet Platt for attending the event.

Since the IREAD test was also given to second graders this year, the teachers in grade two agreed to follow third grade tradition. Any student that received a perfect score could throw a pie in their teacher’s face. Congratulations to Aurora Smyser for earning this honor!