Technology Competition 2016

The Albertville Elementary School Technology Team competed at our regional competition on Friday, April 8th at the Agri-Business Center in Rainsville.  Northeast Alabama Community College did a fabulous job of sponsoring this event.  Hundreds of students from our NorthEast Alabama Region competed in various categories:  General Applications, MultiMedia, Website Design, Video Production, and Computer Programming.

Each of the AES kids presented their projects very well!  All were professional, polite, and confident in their presentations.  All of the projects are winners to me!  Everyone worked diligently with their research, organization, and creatively produced a high quality project!  YEA for AES TECH TEAM! They made this teacher very proud!

Our winners from Friday's competition were.....

1st place website design individual -Melvin Benitez

1st place website design group - Jaxon Cooper and Will Paschal

1st place video production group - Roxie Witherow and Jennifer Tzul

2nd place video production group - Gracyn Spicer, Ava Owens, Kailyn Boman

2nd place website design individual - Emma Buck

2nd place computer programming - Alexander Figueroa

3rd place multimedia group - Levi Hester, Roxie Witherow, Jennifer Tzul

All 1st place and 2nd place winners are eligible to advance to the state competition if they choose.  This will be held in Montgomery on April 30th.  Congratulations to everyone!

Regional Technology Competition was a SUCCESS!

On March 13th the AES Technology Team competed in the Regional Technology Competition held at North Alabama Community College in Rainsville.  The photo above is of most of the members of the team.  Students have worked diligently for months doing research, taking notes, and organizing their information into Keynote presentations, Video Productions, brochures, Prezis, websites, and Scratch computer programming projects.  Students compiled a notebook of required information sharing the steps in the process.  Judges interviewed students and learned about their research and how they created each of these projects.

I was so proud of EVERY STUDENT that day!  Each had a high quality project and each student shook hands, made eye contact, and talked to adults in such a professional manner.  It was a great day for all of us!   Thanks to NACC for hosting such a well organized event!

AES had a few winners that day:

1st place Website Design - Evan and Courtney

1st place - Multimedia - Lily

1st place - Video Production Individual - Emilee

1st place - Video Production Group - Ainsley and Victor

2nd place - Computer Programming - Ethan P.

2nd place Multimedia Group - Will and Cameron

2nd Place - Website Design Group - Ethan W. and Brandon N.

(Somehow these young men escaped getting a picture at the competition...)

2nd Place - Website Design Individual - Ken

3rd place - General Applications Individual - Jacob

3rd Place - General Applications Group - Adriana, Olivia, Belinda

3rd place - Multimedia Group - A.J., Brandon J., Caroline

Proud Mom moment....my daughter, Emilie (on the Evans Tech Team), won 1st place in the IT test and 2nd place in General Applications.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!

All 1st place and 2nd place projects are eligible to advance to state competition on April 25th!  Good luck to all!!!

State Technology Competition ... GREAT SUCCESS!

Eleven AES GATE students traveled to Auburn University in Montgomery on Saturday, April 26th for the State Technology Competition.  All of these students represented our school, our school system, our city, and their families well! I was so proud of how they presented their projects...like little business professionals!  Their behavior was wonderful and they were great sports cheering for each other!

This was our team anxiously awaiting the awards program!  Elaina was pulling "double duty" this weekend!  She was judged then left to play a softball tournament just down the road!  Since she missed the picture, I didn't want her to be left out!  This picture is from Regional Competition where she won three medals!

One of the sweetest moments of the weekend was seeing these three girls holding hands while being judged!  So precious and supportive of each other!

Meri-Lil, Caroline, and Ella Kate won 1st place for their video production titled, "Manners Matter!"

Canaan presented a website that he and Will created about Greek Mythology.  They won 2nd place!

Emma shared a website that she and Julissa designed about China.  They even used pictures of Mrs. Yu visiting our classroom.  Their project won 1st place!

Adyson's original website, "Fashion Through the Decades" won 3rd place!

Aislie's love for Sea Turtles is evident in her website about saving sea turtles!  She won 1st place!

Congratulations to the whole team for a great, fun weekend in Montgomery!  

A special thanks to the parents for spending your weekend supporting our GATE class.  I know it was an expense to make the trip and a whole day (or two) out of your weekend.  I greatly appreciate you all making the effort!  Great memories were made and I hope that the students will remember this awesome experience representing our school system.  Thanks to Albertville City Schools for paying the registration for students to compete and to Mr. Tidmore for traveling to Montgomery to support all of our Albertville students!

 Look for an article in The Sand Mountain Reporter about this great group of kids!  Maybe it will be in the Tuesday, May 6th edition.

AES Technology Team Represents AES Well!

Congratulations to EACH MEMBER of the Albertville Elementary School Technology Team!  Each team member represented our school with wonderful manners, polite attitudes, and really got to show off their hard work and projects to the judges.

Congratulations to our winners!!!

IT Test 

3rd place - Elaina Collins

General Applications

2nd place - Elaina Collins

3rd place - Brady Quarles

3rd place - Meri-Lil Massey and Elaina Collins

Website Design

1st place - Aislie Casey

1st place - Julissa Benitez and Emma Currier

2nd place - Adyson Brandon

2nd place - Will Broadhurst and Canaan Claborn

3rd place - Jonah Bilbrey

Multimedia

1st Place - Canaan Jones

3rd place - Alex Branch

Video Production

1st place - Olivia Wood

1st place - Meri-Lil Massey, Ella Kate Jones, Caroline Thomas

2nd place - Jaylee O'Dell

I am super proud of these kids!

AES competes in state tech competition!

Albertville Elementary School GATE students winning 1st or 2nd place at Jacksonville State University's regional technology competition were eligible to advance to the state competition at Auburn University at Montgomery.  Ten AES GATE students and their families traveled to Montgomery to compete on April 27, 2013.  The students presented their projects with such "class"...just like business professionals.  I was so proud to see them handle themselves so well with the judges and watch as they explained all the details of their tech projects.  Congratulations to ALL these students for a job well done!

Our state winners were...

Jonathan and Natasha - 2nd place for their newsletter about African Cats

Brooklyn - 2nd place for her video production "How to Zentangle"

Drake - 1st place for his original website about Greek Gods and Goddesses

Please enjoy a few of the "fun photos" of our trip!

We love technology!