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Dear Galileo Parents and Scholars, My how fast time flies. Here we are with 8 weeks of school left to go. It seems like yesterday that we all got together to meet each other for the first time.

There are plenty of activities and events left that parents need to be apprised of as we a have Sky Sox Math Day coming up on April 15th, the Science Fair on April 30th that all scholars will be involved in, our final MAP testing takes place mid-April, and boys track, boys golf and girls volleyball are gearing up to be in full swing through mid May.

I want to let the parents know how hard our scholars worked on our state CSAP tests. Thank you for changing schedules around so our scholars could be here.

Summer school info will be coming within the next few weeks. It starts June 1st and runs through June 26th. There will be plenty of opportunities for skill development as well as enrichment. Please call Stacy Brisben at 328-2206 if you have any questions.

As always, we appreciate you sending your scholar to Galileo School of Math and Science. Please let us know what we can do to improve.

Sincerely, Rusty Moomey Principal

Galileo School of Math and Science 1600 N. Union Blvd. Colorado Springs, CO 80909 719-328-2200

April 2009

ADMINISTRATIVE AND SUPPORT TEAM …

Galileo’s Main Line 328-2200 Fax: 448-0498

Administrators COUNSELING CENTER Mr. Rusty Moomey, Principal, 328-2202 Mrs. Vanessa Long, Counselor, 328-2206 Mrs. Stacy Brisben, Curriculum Coordinator, 328-2208 Mrs. Mary Ley, Project Coordinator, 328-2209 Support Team Mrs. Cornella, Administrative Assistant, 328-2210 Mrs. Smith, Registrar, 328-2211 Mrs. Perez, Attendance, 328-2213

School phone directory and staff contacts can be found on the Galileo website: http://www.d11.org/galileo

Galileo...where the students are stars!

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IMPORTANT NEWS (MARK YOUR CALENDAR!) ...

GALILEO’S FIRST EVER SCIENCE FAIR! All Galileo Scholars will be participating in the Galileo Science Fair on Thursday, April 30th. Mr. Marshall can’t wait to see the amazing experiments and projects our Scholar Scientists present to the judges. Key dates to help your scholars succeed…

• April 3rd Parent/Guardian signs slip to acknowledge project is chosen, started and that materials & display board have been collected/purchased • April 13th/14th Preliminary presentations in class on project & progress • April 20th/21st PROJECTS DUE with final presentation in class • April 30th Science Fair formal presentation and judging from 4pm-6pm

UPCOMING SCHOLAR EVENTS Wednesday, April 1st Science Discovery Day Space Symposium Monday, April 6th 5th Grade Shadow Day Wednesday, April 8th 5th Grade Shadow Day Tuesday, April 14th 6-7pm BAAC 7-8.30pm PTA Wednesday, April 15th Sky Sox Math Day Monday, April 20th 6-7pm 5th Grade Orientation Friday, April 24th No School Thursday, April 30th 4-6pm SCIENCE FAIR 5.30-6pm Piano Recital 6-7pm Community Project Night Theme: “Mister Roboto” 4-7pm Book Fair Sneak Preview Week of May 4th thru 8th 8am-4.30pm Galileo Scholastic Book Fair

UPCOMING SPORTS EVENTS

Girls’ Volleyball Schedule 4/7 vs. Russell, 4/9 @ Jenkins, 4/14 vs. North, 4/16 @ Holmes, 4/21 vs. Sabin, 4/23 @ West, 4/28 vs. Irving, All matches start at 4:30pm. 4/30 @ Mann, 5/5 vs. Emerson

Boys’ Track Schedule 4/9 @ Jenkins 4/15 @ Stadium 4/23 @ Jenkins 4/30 @ Stadium 5/7 @ Stadium

All meets start at 4.30pm. Boys’ Golf “Club” Team All games played @ Patty Jewett except 4/16 and 4/21 @ Cherokee Ridge 4/2 5pm vs. Mann, 4/7 4:30pm vs. Creekside, 4/9 5pm vs. Holmes, 4/14 5pm vs. Watson, 4/16 4:30pm vs. Jen- kins, 4/21 4:30pm vs. Russell, 4/23 5pm vs. Manitou Friday, May 1st Phil Shaw Tournament, starting at 7.40am Girls’ Volleyball “Club” Team All games held on Saturday: April 4, 11, 18, 25, May 2 Game locations to be announced/check Galileo calendar.

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G A L I L E O A C H I E V E M E N T S

SPACE AND MISSILE DEFENSE COMMAND/ARMY FORCES STRATEGIC COMMAND FORM PARTNERSHIP WITH GALILEO

Brigadier General Kurt Story, Deputy Commander for Operations at the Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command, presented and signed a partnership agreement with Principal Rusty Moomey and D11 Superintendent Dr. Terry Bishop during the March 16th Community Project Night. Through this partnership, the Space and Missile Defense Command will provide volunteers to assist Galileo students with the science curriculum, will arrange for an astronaut from the US Army to address the stu-dent body, and will host Galileo scholars and teachers at the Space Command at Peterson Air Force Base during special field trips.

17th Annual African-American Youth Leadership Conference

Galileo Scholars attended the 17th Annual Afri-can-American Youth Leader-ship Conference (AAYLC) on Sat-urday, March 7th. This year’s theme was Youth Building Respect and Responsibility for Future Rewards. The commitment of the AAYLC is to support, promote, and foster leadership, edu-cation and positive self esteem among youth. Dr. Mary Thurman, D11 Deputy Superintendent for Personnel Support Services, was a presenter at the conference held at Colorado College. Congratulations to Darral Morris who was awarded $75.00 for placing third in the essay contest, for his excellent response to this prompt: “Dr. Martin Luther King believed in a “Dream of Change.” In what way do you think President Obama will carry out that Dream?” You can see a presentation of Darral’s essay on the Galileo website. The following Galileo scholars also attended this conference: Jarrod Hauner, Adam Elms, Colton Schawe, Markesa Hayes, Kaylea Adams, Jeremiah Coleman, Dorray Wimberly-Cheek, Richie Scheuer, Jimena Lopez, and AnaKaren Partida. To access more information about the AAYLC, copy and paste the following link to your browser: http://aaylc-co.org/theaaylcprogram.html

COLORADO YOUTH CITIZENSHIP AWARDS

School District 11 and Galileo congratulate this year’s Colorado Youth Citizenship Award (CYCA) winners!

CYCA honors outstanding middle school students in the belief that responsible citizenship should be recognized and encouraged early. The middle school winners were selected because of outstanding citizenship, high personal and social standards, reliability, accep-tance of responsibility and community service. The program is sponsored and supported by the North Colorado Springs Rotary Club, all D-11 middle schools, the D-11 GO Club and Walsworth Publishing Company.

Winners from Galileo for the 2008-2009 school year are Jacob Briggs, Nautica Jones and Daniel Webber. Each student re-ceives a savings bond and will be honored in a ceremony held at Mitchell High school on April 13th.

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GALILEO SCHOLAR CLUB NEWS

Boys’ Club Golf Team The following scholars have been practicing their golf game, some for the very first time, in order to meet the challenges of the season. First tee time of the season is on April 2. Coach Moomey and Coach Ken Callum are delighted to work with the following scholars partici-pating in the club sport: Fletcher Smith, Andrew Hay-ward, Liam Aubrey, Chandler Scott, Joey DeMarco, Dakota York, Jeremiah Santisteven, Aelias Brown, Sam Celeste, Dustin Conlon, DeAngelo Torrez, Chris Ottesen, Benelito Martinez.

Club Volleyball Team Club Volleyball provides competitive opportunities for all interested girls and boys on separate teams based on interest and ability. Coach Starkey is looking for-ward to working with her girls’ team, who are excited to play and ready to have a good time developing their skills: Kayla Adams, Savanna Cooper, Elanda Decker, Emma Dondi, Angelique Felix, Markesa Hayes, Indi Heiser, Jordyn Levins, Makena Mueller, Miranda Osowicki, Selena Salazar, Analisa Young, Janesha Pollard. There was not sufficient interest in sponsoring a boys’ team this year.

BATTLE OF THE BOOKS CLUB Battle of the Books is ready to do Battle. These scholars have been working hard to make sure they know the facts about each of the books they read. We have now been given the final 12 and will focus on these to STOMP the competition in our first Battle of the Books competition on May 15th at Mann Middle School.

Adult volunteers are needed to help on the day of the competition. Please see Jeff Marshall or Melanie Jaramillo for details.

Chess Club We've started with a small group of students this year, but have plans to expand our mem-bership in the coming years. Chaos Geogh-agan, Chris Talty-Earl, Alex Wallace, Dustin Conlon, and Jacob Broughton currently par-ticipate in this club. Right now we're con-

centrating on getting a core group of players knowledgeable about how to play and to learn basic strategy. In the near fu-ture we would like to have a school tournament as well as com-pete in other tournaments around the region. Any scholar is welcome to drop in and play Wednesdays after school.

We would love to have any community members with Chess Experience come in and share their strategies with the scholars!

QUILTING CLUB

Quilting Club meets Tuesday afternoons from 3:45pm-4:45pm in Mrs. Leyba’s room. Bethany Weaver, Emma Dondi, Jordyn McClain and Sydney McClain have been busy “piecing” their projects together. Stop by to check them out!

Mrs. Leyba is looking for volunteers with sewing machines to help the quilt-ing club.

COOL SCIENCE CLUB Cool Science meets on Tuesdays after school. Scholars have the opportunity to participate in a variety of different hands-on activities including: making fruit batteries, soil testing, sound

experiments, brain activities, etc. Club Sponsor Mr. Nigro ex-tends a big thank you to our Cool Science representatives.

Check out the Cool Science website at www.coolscience.org

YOUTH LEADERSHIP TRAINING CLUB Mr. Richie is offering Youth Leadership training to any scholar wishing to become a leader. Scholars will learn may skills from the Colorado Springs Youth Leadership Program. Topics will include Leadership Styles, Situational Knowledge, Speaking, Writing, Multimedia, Interpersonal Skills and much more. See Mr. Richie if you want to join, and let him know which day of the week fits your schedule.

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GALILEO SCHOLAR CLUB NEWS

GALILEO SCHOLAR COUNCIL (GSA) Mr. Stephen Swanson reports that so far this year the GSA has been focused on getting organized into a serviceable stu-dent government body. They have run an after school conces-sion stand, helped with the Harvest of Love Food Drive, and their biggest success so far this year has been the well-attended Winter Wonderland Dance in December.

During the week of April 6-10, scholars will participate in the very first GSA elections at Galileo to select five 7th Grade Cabinet Members and five 7th grade Class Representatives. We're looking forward to successful elections. Next year, the GSA will be sponsoring many more events and is looking for-ward to a great second year.

Some of the GSA 6th Grade Representatives this year include Miranda Osowicki, Silas Carter, Darral Morris, Angelique Felix, Andrew Bendorf, Zoe Jones, Andrew Hayward, Hailey Long.

KBDG: The News Everyone is Barking About

Derek and Stephen Swanson co-sponsor the KBDG Announcement Club at Galileo. The

scholars of Galileo work to produce a newscast production where the scholars make a daily televi-

sion show. The scholars come in at 7:45 a.m. Monday through Friday to report events at Galileo and around the world. Most days, the broadcast

consists of five segments which include announce-ments, sports, weather, social, and special seg-

ments. In 45 minutes of extremely hard work, the scholars complete a 4 to 8 minute show.

The scholars have had the opportunity to use high tech production equipment, such as the TRI-

Caster, cameras, and iMacs, for their broadcasts. Our cast is active when gathering the news, creat-

ing scripts, and producing the broadcasts.

MESA CLUB MESA stands for Math, Engineering, Science, Achievement. Club members work on different challenges using MESA skills. MESA teams compete against other teams at the middle school and high school levels; the middle schools have different chal-lenges than the high schools. One of this years contests was building a structure out of Lego’s around a light bulb to see if it would still work after dropping the assembly off the fire tower near TESLA Education Center. Team’s with working bulbs were the winners. Another contest was bridge building. The Team pre-built a balsa wood bridge and tested the bridge’s efficiency against the efficiencies of other middle school bridges. The final contest is a boat regatta. The Team will build a boat out of empty milk cartons, wood, and duct tape. Then the team will put people in the boat, and try to get to the other side of the pool. To win, the team will need to use the least amount of milk cartons to transport the most people across the pool the fastest.

This year’s team includes Sam Askew, Zoe Jones, Khatlyn Manivong, Michael Naillis, Derek Rasmus, Peter Rule, Richie Scheuer, Aimee Schmitt, Mimi Tran, Analisa Young.

YEARBOOK STAFF

Yearbook has been work-ing hard to meet the April

4th deadline and is doing a fantastic job. The yearbook is designed by our Galileo

Scholars and they are proud of the job they have done. The yearbook schol-ars have worked with the

on-line system for the very first time and had to over-

come some obstacles. They took the challenge on like true Bulldogs. They are having a great time taking photos of all the happenings here at Galileo and

can’t wait to see their finished project. This is the first EVER Galileo yearbook, so make sure to order yours now before they are sold out.

The newscast crew consists of Joey Demarco, Khat-lyn Manivong, Silas Carter, Makena Mueller, Cora Lacy, Makaila Carrera, Ciera Gilmore, Daniel Web-ber, Daniel Hopkins, Amanda Stettler, Kylie Haber-

man, Paige Earls, Aelias Brown, Zoe Jones, Mr. Derek Swanson, and Mr. Stephen Swanson.

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READ, SET, RUN ...

Lady Bulldog Volleyball Team Members

Jessie Aragon Mackenzie Bayless Elizabeth Cordova Lexus Eiskina Chyanne Forbes Jamie Herold Maya Kochman Hailey Long Jacqueline Majalca AnaKaren Partida Cinthia Pena Rebekah Rizuto Meahlani Sands-Valle Aimee Schmitt Emily Willis

Special thanks to Coach Archuleta and to Assis-tant Coaches Jane Ellis, Kylie Cornella, Nicole Schmitt and Team Manager Hailey Goff.

The BOYS’ Track Team is “ON THE RUN”!

Click here for information on Galileo Boys’ Track

(Hit control click on this link to access information through the Galileo website.) Check out the Galileo “Gym Video” produced by Mr. Kyle Chamberlain while you are there!

YOU GO, GIRLS!

NEWS FROM THE MEDIA CENTER

****** Scholastic Book Fair ****** Galileo's first Scholastic Book Fair will be held the first week of May. This will be an annual event that supports our growing library. The Fair will be open daily Monday, May 4th through Friday, May 8th from 8:00 am to 4:30 pm. Watch for more information about special events and evening hours! All proceeds from the Book Fair will go directly to the Media Center at Galileo. With your sup-port, we can have a great Book Fair, and a lot of fun! If you're interested in helping with the Fair, please contact Dana Keys at 471-4752 or email thelongshouse@yahoo.com.

2009 Battle of the Books Information

When? Friday, May 15, 2009 Where? Mann Middle School

Access the list of books on the Galileo website. All Galileo Scholars may want to join in on the

reading of these books.

ADDITIONAL READING MATERIALS District 11 is dedicated to communicating with stu-dents, parents, staff and the community through the following publications: Communicator, Digest, D-11 Connections and Flash News Alerts. Please contact Judy McIntire with questions or to receive past publi-cations: mcintjm@d11.org

You can also subscribe to receive these publications through email: http://www.d11.org/publications/

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BE INVOLVED! PTA & BAAC NEWS

GS2 PTA Updates

ATTENTION ALL MALES…. The first male parent/guardian/community member who attends a PTA or BAAC meeting gets a FREE T-SHIRT! Don’t be afraid! (Rusty Moomey, Don Richie and Joe Barrera will be there as back-up.)

FUTURE EVENT PLANS During the March PTA meeting, PTA members drafted a gen-eral event calendar from now to next school year. Come help plan and/or suggest new events! The next meeting is at 7pm on Tuesday, April 14th at Galileo.

We plan to participate in the national PTA Teacher Apprecia-tion Week in May and would also like to hold a "Green Party" as a year-end dance/event for our scholars.

Tentative GS2 PTA Event Calendar for 2009/2010

August 2009: National PTA Back-to-School Member- ship Drive/Events October 2009: Reflections Program November 2009: Thanksgiving Baskets December 2009: Teacher Appreciation Event January: National PTA School Events February 2010: National PTA “Take Your Family to School Week” Open House May 2010: National PTA Teacher Appreciation Week

We do plan to meet over the summer, and look forward to par-ticipation from the new 6th grade students’ parents, as well as the continued support of the present Galileo community.

SNACK SHACK VOLUNTEER REQUEST PTA is looking for student or adult volunteers to run a conces-sion stand during home games. This can be volunteering to do this once or more, for a particular season or for the whole year. Proceeds go into the PTA treasury to support scholar activities and events. Contact Esther Mueller at 432-6218 or muellers1@mac.com if you are interested.

YOUR CHANCE TO BE IN CHARGE! PTA OFFICERS NEEDED Please let any PTA officer or member know of your interest in volunteering for a position for the 2009/2010 school year (or now!). The list of current officers and contact information is on the PTA page of the Galileo website.

MEMBERSHIPS ALWAYS ACCEPTED Please support your Galileo Scholar by joining PTA. It is only $7. Contact Esther Mueller, muellers1@mac.com or your fa-vorite GS2 member. Just because you join doesn’t mean you have to go to meetings, but please know that you are always welcome!

BAAC COMMITTEE

The Building Advisory and Accountability Committee is an oversight committee designed to be a communication link between the school and the community.

The Galileo BAAC committee meets on a monthly basis to discuss issues that relate to the education of the scholars at Galileo. Together with the school principal and other school fac-ulty, the committee is able to assess academic performance and progress at Galileo, as well as, to determine needs and support in each area.

We encourage and welcome parents, grandpar-ents and community members to join us. Please come to our meetings to find out how you can help maintain the high standards set for Galileo by participating in BAAC. The next meeting is schedule from 6-7pm on April 14th.

Contact Dana Keys with questions or com-ments: thelongshouse@yahoo.com

Box Tops for Education Thanks to everyone participating in the Box Tops for Education program at Galileo this year. It is a great way for Galileo to earn money for school programs and activities. REMEMBER: Save your box tops during the summer and turn them in when you re-turn in the fall.