your school committee of the town of five on april first two thousand and thirteen to order mrs slattery due to another conflict is unable to be with us this evening the visitors will be first on our agenda tonight we will do approval of minutes teaching and learning highlights intel science talent search semifinalist m f h ass jazz combo and i really think we should do this more often school committee vote to approve the public school's policy manual school committee vote on school choice participation other matters at the end of the meeting i will ask for a roll call vote to go into executive session for the purpose of discussing negotiating strategies with union personnel foxborough education association professionals and foxborough education association educational assistance the committee will not return to open session and the many visitors is there any discussion ok all in favor or zero zero your previous minutes and correct that wording because this wording is what they are looking for us to submit on the selectmen have done that and basically you know we've done their minutes and then submitted those so it would be important and we need them for everything but like one of the big problems that we see with them is that they're not environmentally friendly you have to dispose of them in landfills so i want to think about maybe i could use i have actually found researchers in sweden who kind of started to do a little bit of work with  used my i worked in the university of bridgeport which is in connecticut about three hours away i'm so i would have to go three hours and then spend the day in for lab and then come back for three hours and they didn't actually have  be which would give you an idea of the surface characteristics of your devices that they had created they're actually literally paper batteries and so i wanted to understand the service characteristics and what they looked like on the inside as well so if i didn't have these i had to figure out there he offered to let me use theirs so i went around and he trained me for the day because you have to be trained to be able to use these microscopes so he trained for the day and i have learnt how to use them and then after that i was able graphite but if you peel off the top layer and this is actually a relatively new material scientists got a nobel prize for it in about two thousand and ten so there it has been extremely high conductivity but they're not really sure what to do with that conductivity at this moment so they're actually looking for applications of graphene so i use that to increase the kind of to give my device because probably carol is great for conducting electrons but it doesn't i have it's not a source for those electrons so i use graphing as the source of those electrons  i actually tested different amounts of grafting to see if they were as good upper limit to how much grafting i could add and i actually did find one you can just continue to add grafting and it's not an extremely expensive material so that's actually a really great way to increase  at these paper devices i also did a few other tests to using like multimeter and cyclical to me trying to get an idea of the current density of my devices to get an idea of how long the shelf life of this device is how long they would last just by they're much more environmentally friendly compared to the batteries that we use right now is this research i don't know what i'm more impressed by the research you're actually doing or your ability to communicate such a complex scientific concept l which is huge and only about three hundred students are selected to be semifinalists and i also just recently went to israel i applied for like it's actually the international sustainable energy conference and they picked one person to represent the entire united states so i got to go there and i worked with two other members one from lithuania and one that was from israel and worked on a project improving the efficiency but it was actually this project and other projects i had been doing that i put in my application and talked about because they wanted essays and they want to see what kind of work you've been doing and they saw that my environs to work was really well aligned with their mission sustainable energy and so i went and i got to work with them on  presented my work and i was selected to go i was second place and then this year i was out and i went again and i was first place i got to go to boston for the american junior can do science again and so i've been really blessed so i got i recently got like  energy about environmental ism and what we can do for our future i'm just blown away i think this is so impressive and in such a great presentation i don't have any questions but i am completely impressing can't wait to see what you're going to do when you get out of college and good luck to you thank you thank you really i want to ask you how did you get started in your interest in science and what do you hope to do their own room i think a big part of it was my sister had done a lot of on science fairs growing up and seeing like where i could take her she had done international science fair which i did as well  sophomore year and i really saw how to curl over the world and she was able to learn a lot from that because when you go to a science fair they really take you seriously they talk to you as if you are a scientist a fellow scientists not just a student coming presenting your work that it to science i'm in the beginning and so i'm just kind of along the road i'm just like i've become more and more passionate about it i think what do you hope to do down the road i think maybe hopefully become a professor at a university sometime  i'm definitely going to be majoring in science so students find their passion and the interest in here you know whatever it is they can be really creative inspired by it's unbelievable what you've done to death for yourself you really think it is just unbelievable so really congratulations and we're also proud massachusetts jazz educators association a major eat in will state finals jazz band festival competition the festival festivals held in framingham and featured eighteen high school jazz bands it was selected to the states based on the district fabulous yes it's at the end you'll f i'm a jazz festival festival friday evening may seventeenth seven pm congratulations much that's what i further discussion about four zero zero communities do something similar and not many of them do it and i think it really does showcase the progression from from the lower grades to what you know not only for parents but for the students for them to see how they are going to aspire you you it's really i was really impressed by the fifth graders who are so attentive and just so respectful and looking at all of the other greats when they were participating i thought that was really really nice to say and the it's always impressive with to me with the fifth grade being my i have a fifth grade school year now but when they started out i know neither of my kids ever picked up a sheet of music before they entered middle school and to see where they're at in december and then to see where they're at in march and then at the end of the year they do an amazing job of teaching these kids how to play an instrument and how to listen to one another as musicians it is it's really a great great  so i enjoyed that as well and the only other thing is we continue to talk about technology that will be in the coming months specially as part of a plan so you know that one of our capital proven projects is to go with wireless and buy in the high school bring your own device and just let you know those conversations are happening of a levels as well so great teachers actually asked recently if they could pilot a bring your own device in a confined environment we don't have wireless at the herne so it's not that they're going to be on the internet but could students if they want to bring a tabloid and i have something they could take notes on that could go back and forth with the you know what if they can't have access to the internet you know not as risky but something that so that we can help kids start moving forward in terms of working in a digital environment so if you're an eighth grade parent you may see that coming home if you have an that's a good idea that's