Grand Island, Nebraska: Every Student, Every Day, A Success!
By Kristen Friesen
For The Independent
KEARNEY ‹ Do you have trouble finding time to pet your cat? Do you ever lose your cool chasing the last few Fruit Loops around the bottom of your cereal bowl? Did your last family vacation make you wish there was some way to separate siblings sharing backseat space?
If you answered "yes" to any of those questions, hold on to your hat! Solutions for all those problems and more were presented Tuesday in Kearney by area first- through eighth-graders at Educational Service Unit 10's ninth annual Regional Invention Convention.
Paula Mellinger, staff developer for ESU 10, brought the Invention Convention to Kearney when she began working there in 1999. Mellinger previously worked at ESU 9 in Hastings, where a Regional Invention Convention has been in full swing for 20 years. A third site for the uniquely Central Nebraskan convention is Holdrege.
Kearney's Invention Convention is open to all students in Blaine, Buffalo, Custer, Dawson, Garfield, Greeley, Hall, Howard, Loup, Merrick, Sherman and Valley counties. And because each school may send only five inventions, that makes for some stiff competition.
This year, the Grand Island public schools made promotion of the Invention Convention the responsibility of its integration specialists. Deanna Hirschman, integration specialist for Gates Elementary, began working alongside teachers in the classrooms as early as October, plugging the convention within the context of existing science and language arts curricula. Full Story
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