Thursday, July 5, 2012

July Notes


I hope you all had a safe and fun 4th of July.


The Solar Car Race is July 16-19 at Texas Motor Speedway.  We will be racing from 2-5 on Monday, 9-12 and 2-5 on Tuesday and Wednesday, and 9-2 on Thursday.  Everyone is welcome to come out and check out the excitement.  It is a free event and open to the public.  Come in the south tunnel entrance and head to the infield.  Follow the signs to the Cup Garage at the north end of the infield. 


We will be having a Solar Race Team Parent Meeting on Monday 7/9 at 6pm in Room D103.  There is a bunch of information to go over before the race.  There are also some forms that have to be filled out that evening.


Be sure to check out the work and meeting schedules on our calendars.   You can find them on the blog at coppellengineering.blogspot.com


The STEM Boot Camp is for ALL 2012 STEM students (new and old).  We will be doing a lot of team building activities and putting the mentoring groups together.  There is no experience necessary.  This is a fun activity for all of the students.  Camp is free and is being held on Friday 8/10 from 1-4 and Saturday from 9-11.


The STEM Family Picnic is on Saturday 8-11 from 11-1.  All STEM students, parents, and siblings are invited/encouraged to attend.  The picnic is a great way to get everyone together for a fun social event before school starts.  We do need help from a couple of parents to help with set up/ clean up and someone to help us find a place to take any leftover food after the picnic so we don’t have to throw it away.  Sign up info is attached and on the Engineering website at www.coppellisd.com/engineering


We will be packing up the last of the stuff in the labs for  summer cleaning on Monday 7/9 at 9am.  We need as many people as possible to get this accomplished.  The custodial staff will be taking everything out of the labs later in the month to clean for the start of school.  We want to make sure everything is safely packed up so things don’t get damaged.


We will be putting the labs back together after the summer cleaning on Monday, July 16 at 9am.  We need help getting things moved into place, computers hooked up, etc for the start of school.


Thanks.