Awards luncheon 2011
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The document summarizes an awards luncheon that took place on March 4, 2011. Several individuals received awards, including Deborah Bean who received an Extra Mile Award, Anne Walden, Kim Dickhut, Cari Guthrie who received a Rookie Award, and Michelle Zahn. Two students, Gabriel Grasnick and Marina Kushner, gave presentations - Gabriel on improving education and Marina presenting a poem titled "Touch Knowledge" about wishing to directly experience and interact with knowledge and the world beyond textbooks.
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- 18. I wish we could touch and talk to knowledge,Feel electric charges,See the Nile River,Slip our toes beneath the water,Hear the heartbeat of life.
- 19. I wish we could travel through the world,Learning first hand about towns and cities and countries,From the people who live there,We would glance up from the words and pages of books,And discover life in our own way.
- 20. I wish we could step outside the classroom,Beyond these plane white walls,Paint life with color,And feel the rhythm of the world,Know the hurt of other nations,And strive to heal them.
- 21. I wish we could learn from doing,Like baby birds that fly from a nest,Sometimes we would fall,But our teacher and friends would be there to help us back up.One day we would find the wind to carry us,And we would soar.We would have a better understanding of the world,So we could fly above the clouds,And there would be so many paths to followWe would have the knowledge to choose which one was right.