There’s No Place Like Nome….

With NYO finishing, my travels brought me to Nome.  I am here for the OS Help Desk Certification that BSSD is jointly putting on in conjunction with Southwest Region School District, and to help with the gifted and talented camp.  The help desk kids are staying at the NACTEC dorm, which I visited for the first time today.  The facility is very nice.  They have bedrooms, common rooms, and a kitchen.  The students are responsible for all of their own cooking and cleaning outside of their classwork. So its a good experience for them. The GT kids are staying at the Aurora Inn.

Tomorrow, the GT kids will be flying in.  I will be working primarily with the OS Help Desk kids for tomorrow, and then floating between the two groups after that.  I would write more, but I am exhausted, and need to hit the sack.  I’ll fill you in on the rest of the details tomorrow.

NYO Day Two….

The tournament has finally come to a finish.  The kids were great.  Everyone was very polite, and their sportsmanship was excelent.  These events are amazing.  The “one foot high kick” reached a max height this evening of 104″.  I’ll post some video later on this.  Its really impressive how high they can kick.

I got all the gear packed up.  4 students and I fly to Nome tomorrow morning aroudn 10:00 AM.  I will be staying at the Aurora (Thank you Rebecca) which will be so nice. Im looking forward to getting some sleep.

Erin is in New York right now.  She is presenting at an SFA conference.  Sounds like she may have the morning to get recooperated after a 4 hour time zone change.  I hope her sessions go smoothly.  There was a lot going on today, but Im too tired to write about it.  🙂

I did help Conrad, a teacher from Stebbins set, set up a blog today.  You should check it out.  He put a lot of work into it today.  You can find it  at http://stebbins.bssd.org/radwood/.

More to come from Nome tomorrow…..