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The 7th Annual Parkside JSS Race this year was a wonderful success! Nearly 100 cars raced. Nearly 300 students participated.
A great sense of thanks and gratitude goes out to Cris Kennedy and PTA parents who helped enormously on this day. Thanks for manning the lanes to report times and help take cars on and off the lines. Thank you Principal Mark Bregar. It's always a fine job of MC'ing you do for this event.
Many thanks go out also to Carol Winter and John Seljan. Your hours of volunteerism each year helping with students during the construction and testing stage mostly go unnoticed. I honor your vim and vitality. Drew Hocevar - lending your scroll saws allows a dimension to the building process. Thank you.
Thanks to all the parents, administrators, former students, high school students, etc. for coming to watch this great event! Your support is and has been appreciated. Thanks also to the parents that made cars. There were three this year. The winner was Mr. Khan, father of Maryam Khan.
Thanks to all the vendors this year that made it. We feel that sharing your expertise and products with students is vitally important. Thanks to John Lance Ford, Pat O'Brian Chevy, Sister Helen Ann for bringing your CNG car, Al Straus for lending us your Meyer's motors all electric vehicle, to Peter Thomas from Hawkins school in Lyndhurst for lending us a generator bike; thanks to Donny Davis from LEEDco for sharing the news about the wind generators going up on the lake that your company is helping with; thanks to the girls from Mrs. Dawson's class for manning the generator bike and learning enough about it to present to the 6th graders; to Bob Stoll from CSU - not only helping kids in Mrs. DeWitt's class, but answering questions at the hybrid car section, and finally to my son Gus, who took a day off of school to help his dad prepare for the race as well as present the battery powered lawnmower - which he uses often.
And finally, I'd like to thank the 6th grade teachers. First, the language arts and social studies teachers for helping during the race. Science and Math teachers - you are truly amazing people. No one will ever know (except me) just how much work, dedication, preparation, and tenacity one has to have to do this project. You can not be thanked enough. I honor your sense of humor, your common sense, and your collective knowledge and wisdom.
Keep inspiring new visions for the future.
Kurt Thonnings
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Thank you to the following organizations that have made this program possible with their donations and grant funds and participation on race day.
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About this site and program Comments? Would you like to donate to this project? Kurt's Tech Page ? ? Teachers Since January 2007 |
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