academics this month seventh grade students took on the robotics challenge in our technology engineering classes this collaboration between teachers brian griffin and yoga a tale is a combination of a two week art project mr griffin students design an attachment to the robot sketch up to complete the challenge of living an object from point a to point b securely while students in mr baker's class wrote the program to operate the attachment and move the robot teachers at peace township middle school and high school took part in the girls rock stem science exhibit at the carnegie site center in early october staff members created hands on exhibits for the event that encourage students to explore what stem education can offer ballingall students read for more than two hundred twenty two thousand three hundred minutes in two weeks for their annual redus on the event also serves in the p t a fundraiser and raise more than twenty five thousand dollars this year in support of the students the classrooms that reading those at each grade level are listed above including the grand prize winner of the bailey membership to the going to museums of pittsburgh as part of the read is on students about our hill also took part in the race for the record with guest readers throughout the building its annual campaign mobilized millions of children and adults to celebrate literacy by participating in the largest shared reading experience on october second pleasant valley held their first junior achievement day at the school community volunteers came in and shared information on economics and our role in the economy as individuals and as a community thank you do your team and and all of our volunteers p t students are taking part in macy's acapella challenge course students from the middle school and mary present the jackson five i want you back the winner of the challenge worn twenty five thousand dollars for their every take a look congratulations to the pierce township high school boys golf team who took on the w p i l golf team championship for the second year in a row the teams led by coach dave kuhn would also like to congratulate our girls golf team for their outstanding second place finish in the congratulations to high school sophomore hunter briggs who took home the w p i a l individual golf title in october the first gulf war in peter township high school history to earn this honor hunter and his three teammates all move on to the p e i as a western regional competition congratulations to p t senior nick walk who is currently undefeated in w p a a l race competition with bill cross country finals are set to take place on october twenty ninth our middle school football teams completed their season in october with undefeated records for both the seventh and eighth grade team congratulations to the teams and to head coaches gary b s sportsmanship committee has selected peters township high school is one of five area schools to receive the two thousand forty four thousand chip award the schools being recognized for their promotion and demonstration of good sportsmanship during the fall winter and spring sports season athletic director brian guy who will accept the award in our behalf at the sportsmanship summit on nov twelfth on october first more than one hundred sixty students were inducted into the high school interact club this service oriented club is sponsored by the peter township rotary and it's organized by teacher jude alexander throughout the year student organized project that supports such as the school for the bronx autism awareness homeless veterans and more nearly one hundred parents attended our c p training in october where they learn the history behind the training program as well as how each of the elements works in our school shall we belcher enter his or jim's even read the presentation and also shared information about how is being taught to our students at the different grade levels and as a policy please use select turning give us your name in taxpayer an address and  so my name is jim goldsmith one one eight tanglewood dr mcknight ph first of all i want to thank all the members of the board for giving their time to the township i also want to thank god the administrators for keeping excellence in our school and throughout our school district and i want to thank the teachers for maintaining excellence within our academic  realm i'm really here to address something that's of concern to the parents i think we stayed quiet long enough and it's time to bring to light our discontent there's a tremendous amount of misinformation as you may be aware and i think we need some information i totally understand that this is now become a legal issue as you may know there's other ways of resolving this which may save money to both the township and time to both our students and the parents that's called either arbitration or mediation but the big thing here is that people have to come together and be able to talk to each other which as i understand is not occurring and i think we are as taxpayers parents and parents of students  entitle to some information not just in a couple paragraphs in a newspaper thank  you i can make one one comment we've had fifteen negotiation sessions today and we don't we do have a challenging process in front of us and you can see from our celebration of excellence that the great things that are happening in this district would not be happening without our dedicated teachers and staff and our challenge is that we are not immune from the economic conditions that are afflicting our economy and our neighborhoods in the world around us and our challenge right now is to find a way to operate within our means while at the same time recognising in valuing our staff both sides of the negotiation team both teams are committed willing and able to come together to resolve this in a way this can be best for our children it is a process and it will take time i have faith and trust that we will resolve our issues in the best interest of our children the teams have come together and giving up their sundays because this is important work and there is not an easy solution but if two teams can come together and find one i trust there are two teams will at this time does anyone have anything under old business to bring  two b j representing the custodial maintenance staff of peters township school district for five years so good it's been moved and seconded is there any board discussion sorry public discussion all those in favor please say i i don't oppose nay national character recommendation consider a motion to create the following extra duty position in the middle school cool to be clean club   and for those i think that this was a presentation made at a prior committee level this was a club for those of you who may not know is a club organized and run by students to try and keep their students drug and alcohol free so it's definitely a club that we definitely support it was it was very positive the other board discussion i think part of the chamber of commerce race on saturday was raising funds for for this club also ok all in favor of approving recommendation were to place a i i  cared anything else mr don it's a thank you mr merrill buildings and grounds buildings grounds committee meeting was held on monday october twelfth two thousand and fifteen number three recommendation high outdoor power equipment and golden eagle equipment the purchase will be made from the pennsylvania state purchasing program contract for ford zero zero zero one one three six one and funded from the two thousand  a motion care recommendation number for high school consider a motion to award a purchase of a new replacement door hardware for two exteriors openings at a cost of three thousand six hundred two dollars and sixty seven cents to builders hardware this purchase is funded from the two thousand and fifteen two thousand and sixteen capital project ok thank you the second day we have a board discussion ok in the public discussion all those in favor of approving for place say i like the place name motion care recommendation number five consider a motion to solicit proposals to purchase a new maintenance vehicle second it's been moved some standardized testing data but i don't know if analysis is complete so i'm going to ask dr french when will we be do you have any idea when we'll be able to present this information we are still waiting for some of the data to be released from the state and it is still pending so soon as we release that everybody to is release we can turn it around pretty quickly ok so are you thinking maybe the december instructor i attended every session that was available to us we had some very effective things some things looking at the analysis of data the data that's provided by the pennsylvania department of education and whether or not it can be relied upon to do anything about that or yes but there were some some very interesting sessions i brought back data for and parsed it out to the appropriate recipients from th conference i participated in a fellowship presentation about the use of standardized testing in pennsylvania i was one of three presentations and our presentation was the only one that got any questions so that people were really paying attention to it interestingly enough the general consensus of the studies that have been done some of them going back fifty years looking at fifty years of data is that standardized testing shows only received one student last so they have looking for a new director and new person to go out and seek seek other students and adults that's been put on hold for a year with the ten solicitors report at this time is your opportunity for question answer items on agenda items under the same policy nine zero three on does anyone have any correspondence they would like to bring up saying that at this time we only have one meeting scheduled in november regular meeting on the sixteenth this or any committee meetings that any chairman like to bring up temporally would be the first monday whatever that data is i believe the first month i believe it is the seventh because the first is a tuesday that's one reason why i ask because it was always in the first week in the past but if that's the decision that's fine with me i normally it's a fair it's i think  but on potentially a stem update that we say we spoke about with the potential grad requirement changes at the high school ok do you have a date you want to propose a monday swenson i just usually speak loudly enough it works i just want to remind everybody november the third is the day that we vote he who does not use his franchise has no right to whine