Friday, November 1, 2013

Weekly Update 11/1/2013



Congrats to the football and volleyball teams on their first round victories in the playoffs.  Good luck to Girls’ Cross Country, KKD Soloists and Competition Cheer as they head off to State competitions this weekend.  Finally a special “break a leg” to the cast and crew of the fall play, Lend Me A Tenor!  If you are looking for some Sunday entertainment, I invite you to attend the 2:00 pm showing of the play and then stay for some dinner at the Annual Spaghetti Supper.  
 
In development, we wrapped up the addition of another $1,000 scholarship for students to attend Assumption.  The family I have been working with will be naming the scholarship after one of the family members.  What a great gift!  

We are finalizing plans on the Presidents’ Appreciation dinner and working on the Annual Report and Annual Appeal.   This week was also the week that we ported over our Blackbaud data for our target analytics project.  I am excited to see the information we get back and to begin using the data to strengthen our development efforts.

On the technology side, we had to do some trouble shooting on some of our electronic whiteboards.  While none of the problems were too serious, it still took a little time and effort to get everything back in working order.  I sometimes forget that we began this project over five years ago and technology does have a shelf life.  We will need to begin replacing some of the hardware on these units to keep them in top shape. 

I spent some time this week working to get the details in order for our second First Tech Challenge team.  Some of you may remember the First Tech Challenge from last year. There is still a lot of interest in the team, and we have been lucky enough to have a parent volunteer help us out.  Just to recap, the FTC website describes First Tech challenge as follows:

FTC is designed for those who want to compete head to head, using a sports model. Teams of up to 10 students are responsible for designing, building, and programming their robots to compete in an alliance format against other teams. The robot kit is reusable from year-to-year and is programmed using a variety of languages. Teams, including coaches, mentors and volunteers, are required to develop strategy and build robots based on sound engineering principles. Awards are given for the competition as for well as for community outreach, design, and other real-world accomplishments.

Hope to see everyone this weekend at either the play or the Spaghetti Supper!

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