Earl of March

Summer Schedule
Our office will be closed from Monday, July 20, 2009 to Friday, August 14, 2009 inclusive. The first Day of School for 2009 - 2010 will be Tuesday, September 1, 2009. Enjoy your summer!

OCRI Award Winners
     This semester, as part of the OCRI high school technology pilot program, Computer Science students from Earl had the wonderful opportunity of developing educational applications to be used in third world countries. With the help of industry mentors, the grade 10 students involved in the program produced some outstanding applications.
On the 3rd of June, these applications were showcased at the Earl to parents, teachers, and judges from various companies and organizations. At the end of the evening, two brand new Lenovo laptops were awarded to Raju Patel and Sepideh Noruziaan for developing an interactive picture dictionary app called PicDict.     Supported in 4 different languages, PicDict allows users to browse through over 185 preset entries consisting of words, visual definitions, and pronunciations. Users can also add their own entries and upload them to Flickr. To finish off their educational experience, users can play an integrated quiz game to test the knowledge they have acquired from PicDict.

Earl's Most Wanted
Congratulations to the "Earl's Most Wanted" team who ran in the MDS Nordion 10k run on Saturday May 23rd. The members trained hard for over 2 months in order to complete the arduous journey. The students in Mr. James' fitness class, together with the pancake breakfast, raised over $2300 for the Ottawa Hospital Team 20/20 Cancer fund. Thank you to our principal Steven Massey, who met our team prior to the race and helped encourage and organize the team members. Way to go team.

Poetry Excellence
Earl of March would like to honour two grade 11 students who are going to be published in an American poetry anthology. Amanda Sparks' poem, "Dangerous Control" and Rand Al-Houssan's poem "Butterfly" have been selected from thousands of entries for publication in the collection, A Celebration of Poets, to be released later this year. The poems were submitted through a poetry contest run by Creative Communication (www.poeticpower.com), an organization based out of Logan, Utah. Both Rand and Amanda will be considered for the "Top Ten Poem" award, and could win up to $3000 if either succeeds. Please congratulate these fine writers should you see them in the halls! Earl of March encourages all of its students to submit their creative works to publications and to develop their artistic skills in conjunction with academic rigour.