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Perry Robotics Club Heading to Regionals

Perry Robotics Team Heading to RegionalsPerry Robotics Club Ready for Challenges Ahead

The Perry Robotics Club is heading to Oklahoma City this weekend tom compete in the 2019 Botball Multi-State Regional Competition. On Mar. 6, four teams composed of nearly 60 students competed in the club’s annual Mock Botball Tournament, to fully prepare for their upcoming competition.

On Mar. 9, students will compete against competitors in a multi-state region ranging from middle school to high school. Botball is a challenging autonomous robotics competition. Students have had 8-9 weeks to design, build, program, and test up to two 100% autonomous robots. The robots will compete head to head in a non-violent robotics event. Additionally, the students must prepare a presentation to perform in front of a pair of professional engineers at the event.

Learning Coding in Different Programming Languages

The students program their robots using C and Python, which are computer languages in use every day in the engineering world and beyond. The DeWitt Perry Middle School Robotics Club is 18 years old, and is one of the longest ongoing and most successful robotics clubs in the country. The club is supported by the CFB Advanced Academics Department and the CFB Association for the Gifted and Talented.

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Kacie’s Run 2019 Unites

Kacie’s Run 2019 marked 15 years that the event was named for 2003 R. L. Turner graduate High School, Kacie Brekhus. The annual event began as the RLT Torch Run, an activity Kacie was highly involved in during her years at her alma mater. After her death in 2003, the Torch Run was renamed in Kacie’s honor and grew into a district-wide event. The event is held to raise money for CFBISD Special Olympics. The 2019 event, held Mar. 2, had over 900 registrants. Students and staff across all CFB campuses helped to raise money for the event. Rosemeade Elementary won the Most Spirited award as well as the Most Money Raised award.

Community Involvement

The event includes a 1K Family Fun Run as well as a timed 5K Run. Participants include teachers, staff, school board members, students, and members of the community.

View the full results of the 2019 race online.

View more photos from this event in our Flickr gallery.

Kacie's Run 2019 Unites

Overall winner, Kevin Curry, finished the 5K in 17 minutes and 59 seconds.

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Dallas Cowboys Visit CFB

Dallas Cowboys Visit CFBIn celebration of Dr. Seuss Day, Athletes for Charity brought former Dallas Cowboys players to visit Central and Landry Elementary campuses. Every year, the National Education Association celebrates Read Across America, which coincides with the birthday of author Dr. Seuss.

Former player Danny McCray and current Dallas Cowboys cheerleader, Nicole Bulcher visited Landry Elementary along with mascot Rowdy, to read to students. Additionally, former player Jesse Holley and Cover 4 reporter Lindsay Draper visited Central Elementary. Landry students enjoyed McCray and Bulcher reading about healthy bodies. Central students listened to Draper and Holley read about finances. After the reading sessions, students at both campuses received their own copies of the book to take home and read.

View more photos of the Cowboys visiting Landry Elementary in our Flickr Gallery.

View more photos of the Cowboys visiting Central Elementary in our Flickr Gallery.

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Long Middle School Teacher is BEAM Nominee

Long Middle School Teacher is BEAM NomineeProject SUCCESS participant, Francis Camacho Vargas, has been nominated for the Bilingual/ESL Education Association of the Metroplex’s (BEAM) teacher of the year award. Ms. Camacho joined Project SUCCESS this academic year and received four days of professional development focused on helping sixth grade students transfer content from Spanish to English guiding them to make cross-linguistic connections.

Ms. Camacho teaches at Long Middle School. As Long’s first Two-Way Dual Language teacher, Ms. Camacho was instrumental in the expansion of the program in CFBISD. She endeavors to make her students feel loved and accepted. Camacho teaches her students to strive for excellence. She is committed to accelerating and challenging students to be bilingual, biliterate, and bicultural. BEAM’s Teacher of the Year will be announced during their 2019 Symposium on April 6, 2019 in Grand Prairie, Texas.

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Project SUCCESS Empowers Families to Improve Biliteracy

Project SUCCESS Empowers Families to Improve BiliteracyProject SUCCESS is a Title III National Professional Development Program funded by the US Department of Education. Project SUCCESS won a competitive award of $2,709,123 from September 1, 2017  to August 31, 2022 from the Office of English Acquisition of the USDOE. The grant funds the Latino Literacy Project. The project focuses on working with parents on ways to help their children with literacy and biliteracy development. Also, to establish a reading routine at home with their children. Parents work with the teachers at the schools for 10 weeks learning how to teach reading to their children in English and Spanish at home.

Training

In addition, 290 teachers at 20 CFBISD schools (Blair, Blanton, Carrollton, Central, Davis, Farmers Branch, Furneaux,  Good, Kent, Landry, La Villita, Las Colinas, McWhorter, Rainwater, Riverchase,  Sheffield, Stark, McLaughlin/Strickland and Thompson) receive professional development training through the grant.

Testimonials

Regarding the program, 2nd grade teacher Monica Agular states, “It has given me the opportunity to connect with the parents at a different level. I’ve gotten to know them more. What their home life is like, what experiences they’ve endured and more. It has allowed me to get out of my comfort zone and interact more with the parents.”

Additionally, 1st grade teacher Esmeralda Leal says, “With a new school year came a new program and experience. The project has given me the shared cultural experience that I had never felt with coworkers, parents, and students. These past months I have laughed, cried, and celebrated where we come from and where we want to go. No program or experience has ever done that before in my 8 years of teaching.”

See a local TV story on the Latino Literacy Project at Thompson Elementary.

Read the Al Dia Dallas Newspaper story on the program.

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RHS Powerlifter Qualifies for State

RHS Powerlifter Qualifies for StateRHS powerlifter, Jhorden Tennyson, took 2nd place in her weight class at the Region 6 Division 2 Powerlifting Championships. This qualifies her for the State Powerlifting meet, where she will compete on Mar. 15. When Ranchview High School Powerlifter Jhorden Tennyson first joined the powerlifting team, she did not know if she was going to stay. Having never lifted weights before, Jhorden was very sore after her first couple of workouts. Through the help of a friend, she was able to stick it out and qualify for the Texas State Finals.

She praises Coach Whitaker, Ranchview Head Powerlifting Coach, for helping her grow as a lifter. Though his support Jhorden was able to achieve success.

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McCoy Hosts Cowboy Mall

McCoy Hosts Cowboy MallOn Feb. 22, McCoy Elementary hosted their Cowboy Mall. Students came up with ideas for businesses – either with goods to sell or services to provide, so that parents and staff could give them feedback on their ideas by way of commerce. Adult visitors were issued play money as they entered the gymnasium and student teams competed for their business. Some students sold crafts they had made themselves, some provided beverages or dessert, and others provided services in the form of entertainment including a magic show and fortune telling. Some students were so successful, they sold out of their products. Visitors included CFB Superintendent Dr. John Chapman, and Carrollton Mayor Kevin Falconer.

View more photos from this event in our Flickr gallery.

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Preparing CFB Students for the Future With AVID

Preparing CFB Students for the Future With AVIDAVID, or Advancement Via Individual Determination, in CFBISD is providing a support system to look at a future that many students didn’t think was possible. AVID is an opportunity to close the gap for students who might not have the same opportunities as others. Regardless of their life circumstances, AVID students overcome obstacles and achieve success. They graduate and attend college at higher rates, but more importantly, they can think critically, collaborate, and set high expectations to confidently conquer the challenges that await them. AVID is making a difference in the lives of our students in elementary, middle and high school.

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Polk’s 2019 Destination Imagination Team State Bound

CFB’s 2019 Destination Imagination Teams Compete Regionally

The Ted Polk Middle School 2019 Destination Imagination team competed at the Regional DI Tournament at Marcus High School on Feb. 23. The teams worked hard using their creative problem-solving skills to solve STEM based challenges. Polk’s DI team moves to the State Tournament on Mar. 23. Twenty other CFBISD DI teams also competed, placing in several categories.

DI Elementary Team Results

Country Place Elementary – Monster Effects, 3rd place
Farmers Branch Elementary – Heads Up, 4th place
La Villita  Elementary – Monster Effects, 7th place
Las Colinas Elementary – On Target, 10th place
Rosemeade Elementary – Escape Artist, (3 teams) 5th , 9th, and 12th place
Sheffield/Furneaux Elementary – Monster Effects, 5th place
Stark Elementary – Escape Artist, 9th place

DI Middle School Team Results

Blalack Middle School  – Medical Mystery, 3rd place
Bush Middle School – Monster Effects, 4th place
Field Middle School – Heads Up, 3rd place
Polk Middle School – Heads Up, 1st place

DI High School Team Results

Turner High School  – eXtreme, 4th place

Polk's 2019 Destination Imagination Team State Bound

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