Salamanca City Central School District

This past Friday was day four of Salamanca’s Project SAMI, College and Careers Camp. In the morning students learned about careers in drafting and manufacturing. In the afternoon students bussed to Olean’s MTI lab and fabricated yo-yo’s using the facility’s machines. Students learned precision machining terminology such as tolerance, XYZ coordinates and G&M coding. For example, the tool holding apparatus is designed to hold cutting bits or tools. On a mill, this is often the element that spins, but on a lathe, this is the feature that secures the workpiece to the table. Depth of Cut is related to speed and feeds and is how much material is going to be removed with each pass of the tool. This is another adjustment that can be made to improve surface finish and/or the life of the tool. Salamanca students worked with a variety of shop machines to fabricate their yo yo’s. These tools included the CNC mill, CNC lathe, manual lathe, drill press, orbital sander, steel rule, MIG welder and arbiter press. Powerful learning opportunity today! Thank you JCC Olean for your wonderful hospitality and engaging MTI lab activity! This experience will plant seeds of engineering excellence in our students for years to come!

EPIC - Every Person Influences Children is hosting “Story Time” at Veterans Memorial Park on Thursday’s at 10:30am We are having our very first family engagement Storytime in War Vets Park, best for families with children ages 8 years old or younger. We will have guest readers from the community, local heroes and community members read a story, we will also have Movement or STEM activity as well as Art for the little ones! Registration is required to assist us with the number of expected attendees. Each Thursday is a theme, our first event will be held on Thursday July 21st, our theme will be “Honoring Seneca Culture” with guest reader Michala Redeye and movement with a guest from the ACC! Free educational fun for the family! For more information, please contact me via email or phone 716-289-3490. #StoryTimeInThePark #EPIC

Day three of Salamanca’s Project SAMI, College and Careers Camp. Students visited Gakwi:yo:h Farms, home to the nationally acclaimed Bison Ranch and Haudenosaunee approach to agricultural practices. Here our summer school students examined how the natural rotations of legumes, grains, and vegetables in different botanical families help cycle nutrients in the soil and have different rooting depths. Perennial berry shrubs hold the soil in place and allow organic matter and aggregates to build without disturbance. According to the tour guide, the invasive Japanese Beetle is a constant threat to the blueberry, raspberry and other sweet crops. Additionally, cut worms and flea beetles cause issues for young crops. Pest and invasive species management in Gakwi:yo:h farming is achieved by using appropriate cropping techniques, biological control, and natural pesticides. For example, planted marigolds can be found throughout the farm. These beautiful flowers draw in carnivorous wasps which eat the beetles and cut worms. Through a guided tour, students learned techniques for honey and syrup production. Gakwi:yo:h farming utilizes a Reverse Osmosis (RO) System for maple syrup production. In RO, a semi-permeable membrane is used to separate water from sugar, minerals, and other impurities. In the maple industry farmers use reverse osmosis systems, but instead of keeping the purified water, Gakwi:yo:h farms keep the concentrated sugar, minerals, and other impurities as concentrated maple sap to finish boiling into maple syrup. The students also enjoyed a sit down Bison burger lunch with farm managers, student workers and farm hands. They were told that Bison fertilize grazing lands while mixing and aerating the soil with minimal compaction but they can’t be found on the second site we visited because Harry Vetch is used on the land to help keep soil together. However, its seeds are poisonous to the grazing animals so the farm managers maintain a land for their animal operations and another for crops. Also exciting is that students and faculty at Salamanca High School had a chance to share what they are doing though the district’s premier workforce certificate program, Project SAMI. Beginning this past fall, Salamanca students had the opportunity to enroll in Project SAMI, a comprehensive distance-learning STEM program where students may study one of eight high-impact, college majors, including agricultural drone inspections. By gathering historical and current conditions of farmland, such as temperature, crop health and soil moisture, our students are learning to map future yield capacity or risk of their farm. With the visual representations of GIS data in the form of imagery, field survey maps and tabular data, our students can help farms make decisions such as how to address nutrient deficiencies and fertilizer treatments, crop health, weed control, etc. Powerful learning opportunity today! Thank you Gakwi:yo:h Farms for your wonderful hospitality and engaging farming tour! This experience will plant seeds of agricultural excellence in our students for years to come! Tomorrow SAMI students head to a fabrication lab to explore Manufacturing Technology.

Popsicles with the Principals Bring your Daily Summer Activities workbook with the first 2 weeks completed to enjoy a free popsicle with your principals! When: July 12, 2022 Time: Anytime between 5:00pm-6:00pm Where: Seneca Intermediate Playground Who: Students in grades Prek-7 prior to summer break Come enjoy some downtime and meet your principals at Prospect and Seneca! Popsicles with the Principals Bring your Daily Summer Activities workbook with the first 2 weeks completed to enjoy a free popsicle with your principals! When: July 12, 2022 Time: Anytime between 5:00pm-6:00pm Where: Seneca Intermediate Playground Who: Students in grades Prek-7 prior to summer break Come enjoy some downtime and cool down with a popsicle and a chance to meet your principals at Prospect and Seneca!

Day two of Salamanca’s Project SAMI, College and Careers Camp. Today, students visited the Niagara Power Authority & Vista, New York State's biggest electricity producer. Here they examined the nature of electricity through the eyes of pioneers like Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison. Through a virtual simulator, students designed their own dam, to operate a power grid during a storm. They enjoyed a high-tech virtual ride plummeting from the sky and into the Niagara River; shooting through the penstocks and swirling around a spinning turbine; then zipping at high speeds along high-tension power lines across the landscapes of New York. Probably most exciting is that students evaluated the three major components of a macro-electrical power system: transmission, a high-power transmission grid and a distribution system. The high-voltage transmission system links the generators to substations, which supply power to the users through a distribution system. Interruptions or inappropriate loads these aging connecting links can disrupt the flow of power from generators to the users, which our students worked vigorously to troubleshoot through the simulated power grid!

Day 1 of Harry Potter STEAM-Adventure Camp. During this camp, students will read excerpts from the Harry Potter books, while they explore adventure, magic, and musical theory.

Today is the first day of Salamanca High School’s Project SAMI, STEAM Camp. In the morning, enrolled Project SAMI students worked on their college academy schoolwork in Drone Inspections, Engineering Technology or Sustainable Land Management. Meanwhile, prospective SAMI students learned about regional career opportunities through our Discovery Career Modules, which are occupational lessons in Biomedical Technology, Sustainable Farming & Advanced Manufacturing. During the afternoon, SAMI students visit local universities, utility plants and farm operations to learn about the careers they are studying through hand’s on activities, facilitated by local experts of the field. For example, on Tuesday our students traveled to Saint Bonaventure University’s BioMedical Training Center, where they examined an interactive 3D model of a “kadabra” human, which is used to train the next generation of surgeons and physician assistants. Afterwards, they worked with a local physician assistant instructor to take the pulse of a “living and breathing” programmable automaton, also used to train medical professionals on procedure and rhetoric. One of our SAMI electrical engineering students asked to look under the hood of the automaton and enjoyed identifying the various electrical components used to generate features such a realistic pulse or breathing.

SCCSD is proud to offer Summer Swim Lessons. We will offer lessons on Monday - Thursday and will have two separate 3-week sessions. Lessons will begin on July 11, 2022 and conclude August 18, 2022. 1st - 3 week session will be July 11-29, 2022 2nd - 3 week session will be August 1-18, 2022 To sign up - use this link: https://forms.office.com/r/03eJWMqBZ6 If you have any questions, please contact Anna Gifford - Water Safety Instructor at AGifford@salamancany.org or Chad Bartoszek Director of PE and Athletics at CBartoszek@salamancany.org

May breakfast and lunch menus can be found online https://www.salamancany.org/page/breakfast-lunch-menus

Far West Regional Basketball Shirts! It’s going to be a WHITE out for the game Saturday, March 12th at Buffalo State College Get your Champions shirts (with team roster on the back) or Salamanca Relentless shirt! Online store closes March 9th at noon (orders will be delivered to the school Friday morning March 11th. ) https://jamestowncycleshop.chipply.com/salamancabasketball2022/

It’s PLAYOFF GAMEDAY‼️🏀 𝐋𝐀𝐃𝐘 𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐈𝐎𝐑𝐒 𝐀𝐓 𝐅𝐀𝐋𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐑 🆚 Falconer ⏱ 7:00pm 📍 Falconer High School 🎟 Admission: $5 📺 Livestream: https://ensemble.e2ccb.org/Watch/FalconerHS_Gym ⛹🏽‍♀️ Facial coverings required Section VI Class C1 Quarterfinal action tonight against the Golden Falcons. ITS WIN OR GO HOME - let’s go Warriors!

Warrior Nation,   SCCSD will be sending rapid COVID-19 test kits home with students on Thursday, February 17. Please check your elementary and intermediate school child(s) backpack.   Our request is students will test at home before returning following the mid-winter break vacation.   It is our intention to keep staff and children in school while limiting the spread of Covid. Please assist us in this effort to lower incidents of possible infection and exposure by testing your child(ren) prior to sending them back to us on February 28, 2022. This is in response to Governor Kathy Hochul request to keep schools open.   If you have any questions, please reach out to Nurse Manager, Juli Creed at 716-945-5140 ext. 6203 or JCreed@salamancany.org Yours, Robert Breidenstein Superintendent

Mr. Siebert - HS Principal has announced the Top 10 and High Honor/Honor Roll students for the 2nd Quarter of the 2021-2022 school year Top 10 - https://www.salamancany.org/o/high-school/page/top-ten High Honor Roll List: https://www.salamancany.org/o/high-school/page/honor-roll Congratulations to all students! #Top10 #HonorRoll #WarriorNation

SCCSD IS CLOSED tomorrow, Thursday, February 3rd for a Good old Fashioned SNOW DAY!!! Snow Day Curriculum for 2/3/2022: Go back to sleep (Health Class) Wake up, brush your teeth, comb you hair, wash behind your ears- Wellness Make your bed & pick up your socks- Community Service Read a book- ELA Have some hot cocoa (marshmallows are optional)- Lunch Color a picture for the fridge- Art Class Build a snowman- PE & STEAM co-taught Help Cook Supper- Home and Careers Play Yatzee- Math Seriously - be safe, rest up and see you Friday! Mr. Breidenstein

Family Swim tonight at the High School pool from 6-8pm! Come and join us! Children 12 and under need adult supervision!

Dear Warrior Nation, The Salamanca City Central School District received our allocation of COVID rapid test kits from New York State. COVID Test kits will be distributed on January 4th to all Pre-K-7 students attending Prospect and Seneca Intermediate Schools and sent home in student backpacks. Each kit contains two rapid tests. Students in Grades 8-12 and Warrior Academy will have test kits distributed tomorrow, January 5th. Should your child(ren) test positive for COVID after using a rapid test kit, please contact Mrs. Creed immediately at 716-945-2400 ext. 6203 or at jcreed@salamancany.org. Thank you for helping keep our students and staff safe and to help keep our schools open to in-person instruction. Mr. Breidenstein

Due to the rescheduled Chorus concert on Thursday, December 16th, there will be NO open swim tomorrow, December 16th. We will resume open swim on Thursday, January 6th. Have a happy and safe holiday season!

This week in Mrs. Middaugh’s and Mrs. Mahany’s Computer Learning and Social Skills class, students learned how to use Book Creator. The students had already created Christmas lists in Word, listing 12 things they wanted Santa to bring them. They added bulleted lists and pictures along with a background for this step of their project. This week, Mrs. Schnaufer came in and assisted in teaching the students to make books using the program Book Creator. For this part of their project, the students created a book cover and a page for each item on their list. Each page had text and a picture, a shape and a voice recording on it. The prompt was “On the first day of Christmas, I would like Santa to bring to me…” They did 12 pages in their book, one for each of the 12 days of Christmas. The students really are enjoying building this project and were truly excited when they we able to add their voices to the book!

Students in Mrs. Phillips-Moores created a Closed Planet System - sealed terrarium, class each received a Gatorade bottle that was cut in two. St Bonaventure student intern put a small amount of charcoal and gravel in the bottom of the bottles. Then the students needed to find a small plant that would fit into their bottles. Once they found their plant, they added soil and water, along with their plant, into their bottle. Our student intern taped the bottled together to seal them up. They placed their closed systems in the classroom windows and will be making observation over about a 3-week period. We have already saw some growth with the roots of the plants.

Our UPK classes had a great time seeing the fire truck brought over by one of the Salamanca firefighters!!! 🤗 Thank you so much for coming for fire safety week and to the City Of Salamanca Fire Dept.