“Students and teachers in all grade levels worked on the Time Capsule project during the last half of the 4th marking period,” said Principal Mary Farris."Teams of students and teachers generated ideas and products to place into the Time Capsule copper box, which will be encased inside the date stone of the Intermediate School this summer.”

Librarian Heidi Schiavone, fifth grade teacher Maria Ramunni and art teacher Marilyn Hower coordinated the project and created a Power Point that was presented to students at a year-end assembly in early June, Farris said.

“It really was quite an amazing show, and provided us all with an opportunity to reflect on the many wonderful things we accomplished in our first year as a school,” the principal added.

Schiavone said the box will be inserted behind the date stone at the front door of the school but no opening date has been set. That will be left to future generations of administrators and students.

The items selected highlight the various activities and academic achievements of the students from the 2009-10 school year. For instance, Schiavone created a scroll listing the most popular books in the library, a scarf represents the success of the Read On program that supported the Child Advocacy Center’s Learning Center and the water bottle signifies the Jump Rope For Heart health program conducted earlier this year.

“The kids really got into it,” Schiavone said of the presentation assembly. “They got up and presented a little bit about each of their contributions.”

In addition to the items listed above, the fourth and fifth grade Tech Wizards crafted a video on flash drive that introduces the fifth-grade Spanish Immersion program, sixth-graders wrote poetry engraved on a compact disc and the Music Department contributed a DVD of the performances from throughout the school year.

Hower created a DVD on the successful “Haiti House” pin project that helped raise money to aid victims of the January earthquake that devastated the Caribbean island nation.

Schiavone said there was some discussion of the technological items included in the box directed at the concern that some of it may not be usable in the future because of the ever-increasing progress of technological advantages – think 8-track – but overall, the school community enjoyed the entire project.