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L..IVED <br />READING SCHOOL COMMITTEE O CLERK <br />Rt ADING. MASS. <br />Reading, Massachusetts <br />1004 SEP 2 <br />Regular Session JUL 7Q; 214 3 <br />CALL TO ORDER <br />Chair Dahl called the regular session to order at 6:35 in the Superintendent's Conference <br />Room. Present were Mr. Carpenter, Mr. Dahl, Mrs. Gibbs, Mr. McFadden, Mr. <br />Spadafora and Ms. Webb. Also present was Superintendent Schettini. <br />EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION <br />Superintendent Schettini stated that tonight we would be honoring the Coolidge Middle <br />School Science Olympiad Team and the Parker Middle School WordMasters Challenge. <br />The Coolidge Science Olympiad Team has won the state tournament for the past twelve <br />years. This year the Coolidge team competed at Juniata College in Pennsylvania. <br />The team placed 8th out of 54 teams from around the country despite the fact that none of <br />the team members from Coolidge had ever competed at the National level. The team <br />owes much of its success to the time and energy of its parent/community coaches as well <br />as the six Coolidge teachers that coach the students. The team is thankful for the <br />tremendous support it gets from the community each year through its fundraising <br />activities. <br />Chair Dahl read the names; Ms. Webb and Mr. Carpenter gave each student an award. <br />At 6:40 p.m. Chair Dahl called a five-minute recess. <br />Chair Dahl called the meeting back to order at 6:45 p.m. <br />Superintendent Schettini introduced the Parker WordMasters. The WordMasters <br />Challenge is an exercise in critical thinking which first encourages students to become <br />familiar with a set of interesting new words (considerably harder than grade level), and <br />then challenge them to use those words to complete analogies expressing various kinds of <br />relationships. <br />A team representing Parker Middle School recently won highest honors. The <br />WordMasters Challenge is a national language arts competition entered by over 240,000 <br />students annually, which consists of three separate meets held at intervals during the <br />school year. <br />Competing in the difficult Blue Division of the Challenge and supervised by Ellen <br />Howland and Jen Tracey, the school's eighth graders finished seventh in the nation in the <br />