Fun days are happening at the Tech....

Saturday, May 7: Come make stuff at The Tech! This event is for girls — along with their siblings and parents! — to come be inspired by projects made by other young people. Technology and engineering will come together for maker activities like laser-cutting with TechShop San Jose, stop-motion animation with VidCode, imagining a habitat for Mars with Okada Design and making video games with Girls Make Games. Girls Day offerings are drop-in and free with admission!


Wednesday, May 11: What would society gain from having more women and minorities in tech, and how do we get there? Watch the documentary “CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap” and hear a panel discussion — moderated by Gretchen Walker, The Tech’s Vice President of Education — on a topic that’s central to Silicon Valley’s future. Wednesday, May 11, 5:30 p.m. at Microsoft in Mountain View. $20.

International Fair May 6th (4:30-6:30 pm)

International Fair May 6^th 2016       4:30-6:30PM

Come showcase your country of descent at International Fair (IF) 2016, at Country Lane. Our school is a rainbow of cultures, with students and parents, hailing from far corners of the earth, who now call Country Lane, home. IF 2016 gives the school community a chance to celebrate its cultural diversity, while reminding the kids that within diversity lies unity. Please participate at IF 2016 by:

(1) Creating a country booth

(2) Performing in a 3-5 min cultural show

(3) Participating in a fashion show

OR

Just come by and enjoy an evening of food, fun, fashion and culture, in Country Lane.  Everyone (kids and parents) is encouraged to wear traditional costume. We already have ambassadors from the following countries:  Australia, Bangladesh, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Germany, India, Iran, Israel, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Nepal, Peru, Philippines, Romania, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, Tunisia, Ukraine, USA.

See your home country?  Consider joining their team or simply come out to support them. Together let’s build a strong Country Lane community.

IF 2016 event timeline (May 6^th, Friday)

Table/booth setup:  2:30-4:20 pm

Meet/greet/eat:      4:30-5:15 pm

Flag ceremony:      5:15-5:30 pm

Cultural program:   5:30-6:00 pm

Fashion show:        6:00-6:30 pm

Fair ends/clean up:  6:30-7:00 pm

Questions: Sangeeta Banerjee: banerjeesr@sbcglobal.net

Science-O-Rama was a huge success...

Look at our HAPPY 5th graders.
I'm so proud of their hard work and cool projects.

Girls Day at the Tech...May 7th

sponsored by the Junior League of Palo Alto-Mid Peninsula

Saturday, May 7
Noon to 5 p.m.
Free with museum admission

Come make stuff at the Tech! This event is for girls — as well as their siblings and parents — to come be inspired by projects made by other young people. Technology and engineering will come together for drop-in maker activities in art, fashion, games and more. Come dream with them!

Drop-in activities

• Laser-cutting with TechShop San Jose
• Digital media projects and stop-motion animation with VidCode
• Robotics with TeenForce
• More to come!

Girls & Tech Career Lounge

Come be inspired in the Girls & Tech Career Lounge! Enjoy video stories of girls and women who propelled their personal passions into engineering and technology careers. Parents and mentors, come learn how to support young women in their pursuit of those careers. This lounge is hosted by event sponsor Junior League of Palo Alto Mid-Peninsula.

Help Fight Cystic Fibrosis

Cornerstone Fundraiser

Help Fight Cystic Fibrosis

Cystic fibrosis is a life-threatening, genetic disease that causes persistent lung infections and progressively limits the ability to breathe or break down food and absorb vital nutrients.

5^th Grader, Megan Grainger, has been living with this disease throughout her 6 years at Country Lane, needing to take medication before she eats any food in order to help her digest properly.  In her honor, our Cornerstone kids have organized a donation drive to Cystic Fibrosis Foundation in order to help fight this disease.

Great Strides is the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation’s largest national fundraising event.  Each year, more than 125,000 people participate in hundreds of walks across the country to support the Foundation’s mission to cure cystic fibrosis. The funds raised from Great Strides helps provide people with CF the opportunity to lead full, productive lives by funding research and drug development, promoting individualized treatment and ensuring access to high-quality, specialized care.

The local Great Strides 5k walk to benefit the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation will be held on Sunday, May 22, 2016 in Guadalupe Park in San Jose.  Several of Megan's family members will be walking in her name, raising money for the foundation.  Their team name is "Walking for Megan."  They have raised $45 so far and their goal is $1,500.  The website is: 

http://fightcf.cff.org/site/TR/GreatStrides/98_Northern_California_San_Francisco?team_id=46355&pg=team&fr_id=5083

Dream Vacation Presentations Wed., March 16th

Need a vacation? Planning a Spring Break getaway?

Join Miss B.'s class from 9:40-11:50 for presentations of Dream Vacations of a lifetime.
When: Wednesday, March 16
Room: Miss B.'s Room (30)
Time: see below

*9:40 am: N.Y.
*9:50 am: Oregon
*10:20 am:  Alaska
*10:30 am: Arizona
*10:40 am: Texas
*10:50 am: Hawaii
*11:00 am: Alaska
*11:10 am: Pennsylvania
*11:20 am: New Jersey
*11:30 am: Oregon
*11:40 am: N.Y.

Hope to see you there!

S.F. Exploratorium to Live Stream Tonight's Total Solar Eclipse

Once every every 18 years and 11 days, someone, somewhere in the world, can have a front-row seat to a total solar eclipse. Today, if you live in, say, Australia or South China, you can count yourself among the lucky ones. But for we San Franciscans, our own Exploratorium will be live streaming the whole celestial event.

The Embarcadero museum has sent a production team on an extra-special expedition toWoleai—a coral atoll, about the size of Golden Gate Park, about 500 miles north of New Guinea in the South Pacific region known as Micronesia—to document the sun's close encounter with the moon.

Today, beginning at 4pm PST, space nerds can get as close to the action as most people ever will at a free live program at the Exploratorium:

Exploratorium scientists and educators, both in Micronesia and at the museum, will fill you in on what makes an eclipse and how to view one safely, and they’ll introduce you to the culture and geography of Micronesia. The program will explore the science of the sun, using amazing, high-definition images and video from NASA satellites, and will highlight NASA’s new MMS mission, a multi-satellite endeavor to measure the magnetosphere that connects the Earth and the sun.

If you can't make it over to the Embarcadero, take advantage of 21st Century convenience and watch the whole thing from the comfort of your bed or office thanks to a webcast from the Exploratorium, which has been bringing eclipses to a wider audience via live broadcasts since 1998.

Either way, you won't want to miss it—if this NASA astrophysicist (speaking to The New York Times) isn't exaggerating, it should be pretty epic:

"The cool thing for those who are going to be in the path of totality is that they are going to be able to see the outer atmosphere of the sun called the corona,” said C. Alex Young, a solar astrophysicist from NASA. "The corona will look like flames streaming from behind the moon. This is only visible from the ground during a total solar eclipse,” he said.

In this one instance, you can forget what your parents told you about staring into the sun and go for it.  

Link:

http://www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse

Tuesday, March 8, 2016 • 4:00–8:00 p.m.
Live Eclipse Broadcast 5:00–6:00 p.m.
Telescope-Only Feed 4:00–7:15 p.m.