Decreasing your speed to 30km/h will only increase your commute a minute or less and help to protect our kids. Will you take a minute to help keep our kids safe?

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The NPSS Senior Alternate program has successfully been working on projects to benefit both Fort St. John, and the international community.  Right now they are wrapping up a year long project to help the homeless in our community.

Throughout this past school year the program has completed projects such as sending Christmas shoeboxes, which are small boxes filled with gifts, to less fortunate children of Africa. The program also sponsored a family during Christmas and bought them Christmas dinner and gifts which hopefully helped the family have an amazing Christmas.

In addition, they have also cleaned up the school grounds and they have brought greeting cards to the seniors at Peace Villa Care Home to brighten their day.

Earlier this year, the class held a clothing and coin drive to provide warm clothing and supplies to the shelter. Walmart Canada also contributed a $1000 grant to this project.

Currently, Ronin Medcalfe, who is the lead organizer for the homeless project, is working on getting lockers for the homeless living in our community to use to keep their belongings safe.

“I think it makes them feel good, like somebody cares,” said Ronin Medcalfe. He’s been working on this project since last year when his proposal letter was read at City Council.

“They need somewhere to put their stuff where it won’t be stolen;  their wallets, ID’s, things that they treasure most,” said Medcalfe. Right now Ronin is working on the final stages of buying the lockers and getting them installed at the homeless shelter.

“Every homeless person in Fort St. John who uses the shelter will have access to the lockers,” said Medcalfe. The Salvation Army was more than happy to work with Ronin and the other students on this project.

“Receiving these donations means a lot to the community that we serve,” said Cameron Eggie, Executive Director for the Northern Centre of Hope. “It shows our guests that people do care about them and it shows our frontline staff that the community supports their work.”

This article has also been published at https://npss.prn.bc.ca/?p=4449 and https://www.energeticcity.ca/2018/06/npss-students-collect-donations-to-install-lockers-for-homeless-residents-in-fort-st-john/

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This is a video compilation of this year’s Physics 11 students, Rube Goldberg projects. The students need to build a Rube Goldberg machine that demonstrates some of the major concepts from Physics 11 (momentum, acceleration, velocity, energy, Net force and projectiles). The students have to have a project with a minimum amount of energy transfers from one object to another and this years challenge was to launch a ball over a wall 10x the diameter of the ball and hit a 5cm tall pin no wider than the ball itself. The students also had to complete calculations based on their project that show an understanding of those major concepts. The students have 3 tries for their project to work completely.

 

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As with our physical libraries we ask that parents be involved in ebook title selections.

More info is available on our Libraries page at http://www.prn.bc.ca/?page_id=225

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BIKE DAY was created by Lisa and maintenance foreman, Greg Large, who on a regular basis, work together to support children with special needs in SD 60. Lisa uses her skills and expertise as a physio to assess kids and liaises with Greg for his technical expertise to adapt equipment to meet their unique needs. Together, they began making adaptations to typical bikes to further work on the development of a child’s motor skills. “What better way to work on range of motion, strengthening, limb co-ordination, attention skills, and socialization than with a bike,” says Lisa. The demand for bikes quickly soared, and in 2007, Lisa approached the City requesting the donation of found bikes for the cause. A partnership with the City of Fort St. John quickly ensued. During this past year, bylaw officer Bonnie Isenberg played a key role in ensuring the district had the bikes required to make this year’s BIKE DAY a success. Lisa and Greg are already planning for next year’s event, and look forward to celebrating the students’ successes and the continued support of everyone involved, especially the City.

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The winner of the contest will receive a $250 Staples Gift Card and a t-shirt with the winning design on it!

Guidelines:
– Your design will be science related
– Your design will include the words: 2012 Northern BC Regional Science Fair.
– Your design will have no more than three colors
– Your design will be no larger than 8 1/2” x 11”
– All entries must include name, age, grade, school and home number.

Send entries to J. Armbruster at the Energetic Learning Campus by school mail or electronically to jarmbruster@prn.bc.ca before January 27, 2012.

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