Hi, Comets! This is your CCE PTA eNews update for Friday, March 4, 2011 In this issue: - Family Fun Fest - TOMORROW, March 5 - Community Update with the Superintendent - March 10 - CCE Pajama Day - March 11 - Statewide Rally to Save Texas Schools - March 12 - School Supplies Order Forms - Multi-Cultural Fair - March 25 - Sprinkle of Fairy Dust - March 26 - Girls in STEM Conference - MArch 26 - Science Fair Regional Results - Destination Imagination Results ************************************************************************************************************************ Family Fun Fest- March 5, 2011 2:00-5:00 at CCE - TOMORROW! Lots of Games, Snacks, Kona Ice, Games 2 U, Bounce Houses & FUN! Tickets will be available at the event. We desperately need volunteers (parents, middle & high school students). Please sign up at www1.mysignup.com/ccefff The Teacher Treat drawing will take place during the FFF. You do not need to be present to win and may enter as many times as you would like. Please visit www.canyoncreekpta.com/familyfunfest.php to download an entry form. There will be a Silent Auction during the FFF. If you or your business would like to donate something for our auction, please contact Beth Unite at bunite@austin.rr.com. If you or your business would like to Sponsor a booth (minimum of $50donation), please contact Alexandra Goff at mgoff@austin.rr.com. For any other questions, please contact Denise Haverda at dhaverda@yahoo.com. ************************************************************************************************************************ Community Update with the Superintendent March 3, 2011 - The community is invited to meet with Round Rock ISD Superintendent Dr. Jesús H. Chávez on Thursday, March 10 from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Sommer Elementary cafeteria, 16200 Avery Ranch Blvd. in Austin. Residents are invited to attend the meeting to ask questions about the 2006 and 2008 Bond Programs and learn more about parent involvement opportunities, the upcoming budget reduction, state of the district and district goals. Light refreshments will be provided by the Round Rock ISD Partners in Education Foundation. Please RSVP by noon on Tuesday, March 8 via e-mail to community_relations@roundrockisd.org. ************************************************************************************************************************ Pajama Day will be on March 11 Thanks to the spectacular Box Tops collection efforts of the Canyon Creek families, we will be having a school-wide pajama day on March 11. Kids, teachers and even parents can wear pajamas to school on this day, although please make sure your child brings appropriate footwear for recess and PE class (it is difficult to run around the track in slippers!) The school received almost $3,400 from General Mills this school year, which is a record for Canyon Creek. Thanks again to everyone who participated and please keep saving your Box Tops for next year's contest. Becky Crowley and Tracy Dudley, Box Tops Coordinators ************************************************************************************************************************ Statewide Rally to Save Texas Schools Saturday, March 12, Noon-2pm, Texas Capitol on the South Steps 11th & Congress, Austin www.savetxschools.org ************************************************************************************************************************ School Supplies order for the 2011-2012 school year will begin the week after Spring Break. Look for a form coming home in the Tuesday Folder on Tuesday, March 22nd. Ordering will begin on March 23rd and will continue through April 8th. ************************************************************************************************************************ Multi-Cultural Fair, March 25, 2011 Multi-Cultural Fair – Volunteers Needed on EVENT DAY: CCE’s best celebration of cultural diversity at our school. The fair is March 25, 2011 5:30 to 8:30 pm SIGNUP NOW: http://www1.mysignup.com/multicultural_fair_2011, FUN...FOOD...LIVE MUSIC plus dances, performances, booths, dinner and more! Dinner plates are $5 for Adults, $3 for Child. Outdoors at the Art Patio Café enjoy desserts $2 per plate plus music all night. BOOTHS: 5:30 to 8:30 LIVE MUSIC: 5:30 pm “Skinny Jeans” rock band from CCE, 6:00 pm Mariachi Hernandez, from RRISD middle school 6:15 pm CHAMPS string quartet from WHS, PERFORMANCES : 6:30 to 8:00 pm ……..Cafeteria Stage Highlights are CCE Ballet Folklorico, Taiko Drums, Order of the Arrow Native American Dances, Korean, Chinese and, Japanese performances. COME EARLY, STAY LATE! ************************************************************************************************************************ Sprinkle of Fairy Dust Volunteers Please Mark Your Calendar - Save the Date!! We need your help!! March 26th Round Rock High School Field House 300 Lake Creek 9:00am to 4:00pm Girls will arrive & select dresses on a first come first serve basis. Each girl will need a personal assistant to help her through the process. Sandwiches provided by Firehouse Subs courtesy of Jennifer Sellers More information to follow with specifics Round Rock Library to host Dress Drive March 5th 10:00 to 2:00 Several local schools also collecting dresses: Stony Point high School, Cactus Ranch Elementary, Canyon Vista Middle School, and Walsh Middle School Mary Masters Stewart 751-0954 ************************************************************************************************************************ 6th Annual Girls in STEM Conference on March 26, 2011!! Girlstart is a non-profit organization in Austin, Texas created to empower girls in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Girlstart was a part of our Family Science Night... with the bubbles! This is a one day conference created especially for girls in 4th - 8th grades. This year Girls in STEM will be held at the University of Texas at Austin starting at 930am - 3:30pm. Girls attend three unique hands-on workshops and they can even register to attend with their friends! Registration costs $35/ girl participate which includes lunch and a t shirt, however Girlstart understands that $35 might be out of budget and are always willing to work out a compromise in order to include as many girls as we can. Chaperones will be provided but transportation will not be. Visit www.girlsinstem.org to register online or for more information. The deadline for registration is March 20, 2011. ************************************************************************************************************************ Congratulations to our Regional Science Fair Comets!! Canyon Creek Elementary was well represented at the Austin Energy Regional Science Fair on Feb 26th!! We congratulate our regional participants and all our CCE science fair participants! Thanks to you...science is alive and well at CCE!! Look out Science Fair 2012! Please see the regional fair results below: Kate Goertz How Do Plants Spread 1st place Beth Marshall Optical Illusion 1st place Maximilien Wolf Solar Energy: Power for Earth & Space 1st place Molly Sparrow How It All Began: The Big Bang 1st place Mira Desai Why Sinkers Sink and Floaters Float 1st place Nikita Karthik Electrical Fruit 1st place Miguel Liu How Much Tape Does It Need to Hold My Weight? 2nd place Phoenix Wang How Can We Get the Maximum Power Out of a Solar Panel? 1st place Clark Thomson How Drivers are Distracted 1st place Eesha Nayak Wait...Don't Waste! 2nd place Siddhant Pandit Effect of Heat and Pressure 1st place Prasidh Sriram Weight Bearing Structures 2nd place Ashray Desai Green Lighting 1st place Please feel free to email ideas, suggestions and comments re: the science fair and family science night to: sciencefair@CanyonCreekPTA.com. ************************************************************************************************************************ Destination Imagination Results We're quite excited to announce how our CCE DI teams performed last weekend: CCE Team 1: Won 5th Place in their Challenge. CCE Team 2: Won 1st place in their Challenge. This team won Renaissance Award for outstanding design, engineering or performance. This team is advancing to the state competition. CCE Team 3: Won 1st place in their Challenge. This team also won Spirit of DI award for exceptional spirit, teamwork, volunteerism and sportsmanship. This team is advancing to the state competition. CCE Team 4: Won 9th place in their Challenge CCE Team 5: Won 2nd place in their Challenge. This team is advancing to the state competition. CCE Team 6: Won 11th place in their Challenge CCE Team 7: Rising stars. This is a non-competitive. We have three teams advancing to the state. We're very thrilled for all the kids who participated and worked for their challenges. Below are the names of the participants: CCE Team 1: Ankita Bharjwaj, Ayush Deskmukh, Dia Jain, Kevin Le, Vaibhav Krish, Sourav Dhar and Shreyush Shankar. They won 5th Place in their challenge. CCE Team 2: Hamsini Nathan, Niti Malwade, Khira Patel, Srija Reddy, Megan Le and Devika Patel. They won 1st place in their challenge. This team won Renaissance Award for outstanding design, engineering or performance. This team is advancing to the state competition. CCE Team 3: Arjun Jain, Andrew Lu, Carolyn Cravey, Prathyush Shankar, Sharan Erraguntla and Tristan Yates. They won 1st place in their challenge. This team also won Spirit of DI award for exceptional spirit, teamwork, volunteerism and sportsmanship. This team is advancing to the state competition. CCE Team 4: Dania Mendoza, Jonathan Gover, Roshan Mara, Julia Bowers, Frank A. Gover, Varun Narayanan and Emily Perkins. They won 9th place in their challenge. CCE Team 5: Arjun Jain, Andrew Lu, Carolyn Cravey, Prathyush Shankar, Sharan Erraguntla and Tristan Yates. They won 2nd place in their challenge. This team is advancing to the state competition. CCE Team 6: Oriana Yates, Anish Reddy, Ambika Chauhan, Saaketh Vangati, Gokul Narayanan, Diego Mendoza. They won 11th place in their challenge. CCE Team 7: Adarsh Ambekar, Neha Dania, Venthan Dinesh, Brian Lee, Sanjeev Ramkumar, Siri Vangati and Allan Zhou. This is the rising stars team of CCE. ************************************************************************************************************************ Have a great weekend! See you tomorrow at the Family Fun Fest!