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Ames Students Grasp Dangers of DWI
At the Massapequa High School Ames Campus, students have been learning about the consequences of driving while impaired or intoxicated. In addition to classroom discussions, students also did research on the Mothers Against Drunk Driving website. They used the facts they learned to make educational posters.
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ALS Ride For Life Inspires Ames Students
Hundreds of ninth graders lined the front driveway at the Massapequa High School Ames Campus on May 9 as the ALS Ride For Life came through. The students were there to raise awareness about amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord, commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease.
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Ames Welcomes Massapequa Alums to Career Day
Massapequa alumni, spanning more than 50 years of graduating classes, offered words of wisdom to ninth graders at the Ames Campus on April 21. The annual Alumni Career Day featured professionals who were educated locally and graduated from either Massapequa or Berner High School.
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Secondary Teachers Explore a New Schoology Feature
As part of the Massapequa School District’s adoption of a new learning management system, Schoology, secondary teachers recently attended multiple trainings and learned how to use the digital gradebook feature. Training sessions were held in February and March at Berner Middle School, and the high school’s main and Ames campuses.
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”
-Albert Einstein
“Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.”
-Mark Twain
“There are two types of education... One should teach us how to make a living, And the other how to live.”
-John Adams
