We received this email from Nathan Yaffe, Carleton College student: As part of my Environmental Economics and Policy class, we’re conducting research on the different stakeholders relevant to the annexation…
Category: <span>Education</span>
I attended the Northfield Raider Wrestling team’s pancake fundraiser at the Eagles Club on Sunday. The team heads to the 2010 State Wrestling Tournament today for the first time. That’s…
Looks like the Northfield Booster Club is going to have to update its sign on the south edge of town that lists Northfield Raiders state champions.
Last night, Northfield won the Class AA gymnastics title. On the Minnesota State High School League website, 2010 State Girls’ Gymnastics Meet:
A new champion prevailed in Class AA. Northfield emerged out of a tight pack to bring home its first title with a score of 148.325. The Raiders were in third place going into the final rotation – behind Lakeville North and Cambridge-Isanti – but recorded a meet-high 37.925 on vault to pull away with the title.
The Raiders also scored the meet’s highest score on beam, with a 37.175. On floor and bars, Northfield scored a 36.625 and 36.6, respectively. Meaghan Howell led the team on vault, 9.7, and floor, 9.475. Sveta Mason recorded the team’s highest score on beam, with a 9.55, and on bars, with a 9.475. Four of the Raiders will return to compete in Individual finals on Saturday.
Other media coverage:
The ‘Most Northfield students’ campaign signs are plastered all over the Northfield Middle School these days. Today I noticed that the campaign now includes “Most” t-shirts that are being…
The 11 inches of snow we got earlier this week have made for a winter wonderland. The snowshoeing and cross country skiing are fantastic. And photo buffs like me are having a ball.
Erin Mayberry has a blog post on Northfield.org about Community Ed and Rec’s Snowshoeing 101 class on Saturday.
I took the photo above yesterday in Carleton’s Upper Arb. Here are 6 more, 3 of them macros:
Many local schools/districts cancelled classes two hours early yesterday and have scheduled two-late starts today cancelled classes today (Northfield school-closing info here).
I noticed some people bitching whining thoughtfully discussing this on Facebook yesterday and today. Some comments:
A couple of parents of local teens have alerted me that Synergy Dance Club (Facebook group) events at the new Onyx/Olmeca night club in Burnsville are increasingly drawing Northfield’s teens…
There’s an ice palace in the Carleton Arb, just off the start of the Ann Sipfle Memorial Ski Trail. Candles are stuck on the sides of the inside walls. Looks…
I got an invitation from my mentee, Chad Dougherty, to attend his Industrial Tech class at the Northfield Middle School on Monday to watch the CO2 car races. IT instructor Tim Biegert and Instructional Educational Assistant Lance Poole graciously allowed me to take some photos and video.
For the CO2 races, each student shapes a block of wood into a car body shape, drilling holes for the axles and the CO2 cartridge. Considerable sanding, sealing, and painting in involved. Students attach two eyehooks to the bottom of each car so that a string can be used as a guide to keep them on the track.
On the day of the race, student cars are paired up to race against each other but the key metric is the elapsed time for each car. Mr. Biegert inserts the CO2 cartridges and a student triggers a mechanism that punctures the seal on the cartridges and sends them down the track at 20-50 MPH, taking about a second to finish. Finishing times are automatically recorded to a computer and displayed on the screen, with rankings likewise updated after each race.
It was quite an exciting event to watch and clearly exciting for the students. Here are 6 more photos and a 10-second video clip of Chad’s race.