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Ed-Bits Greenburgh Soliciting Entries for 37th Annual Poetry Contest Greenburgh's Arts and Culture Committee will accept entries for its 37th annual poetry contest from January 1st thru March 15th, 2008. The contest is open to all residents of New York State. There is a $6 per person fee for all entrants. Entry fee covers two poems per person. Poems may be on any subject but must be original, previously unpublished and no longer than 50 lines. First place winners of previous Greenburgh Poetry Contests are prohibited from entering again in the same category. There will be four categories of winners: Juveniles (juniors 6 - 10 years old) and Juveniles (advanced, 11 & 12 years old); Students (13 to 18 years old) and Adults (anyone over 18). In Student and Adult categories, the first place winners will receive $100, the second place winners will receive $50, and third place winners will receive $25. In both Juvenile categories, first, second and third place winners will receive cash awards of $50 and $25 and $15 respectively. Poems by the top 10% of entrants who reach finalists' status will be published in the 2008 contest anthology, Let the Poets Speak. Winners will be announced at an awards program Sunday, May 18, 2008. All entries must be postmarked by March 15th, 2008. To receive a print copy of submission guide-lines and an official entry form, send a self-addresses, stamped, business-sized envelope to: Greenburgh Poetry Contest, Arts and Culture Committee, 177 Hillside Avenue, Greenburgh, NY 10607. To download guidelines and application from the Internet, go to www.greenburghny.com, click on "Documents & Forms," then follow "Arts and Culture" link. White Plains teacher explores ocean floor core samples at the Gulf Coast Repository COLLEGE STATION, TX Touring the 14,000 square-foot facility, refrigerated to 40° F, generated ³oohs,² ³aahs² and ³brrrs² from the nation-wide group of middle school, high school and undergraduate educators. Mike Passow from Englewood, NJ, a science teacher at White Plains Middle School, was among the 17 educators selected from across the country participating in ³School of Rock 2007.² The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program's (IODP) Gulf Coast Repository houses over 100 kilometers of seafloor cores from the Pacific Ocean, the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico, and the Southern Ocean. During the workshop, John Firth, the repository¹s curator, wheeled racks containing several one meter-long cylinders, sliced end-to-end to show cross-sections, from the cold storage area to the laboratory, where participants assembled. As he did, the group eagerly surrounded the samples, straining for their first glimpses of geologic evidence of one notorious moment in Earth¹s distant past. Several of the core samples contained sediments that built up on the seafloor before, during and after the catastrophic meteorite impact 65 million years ago, causing mass extinction including that of the dinosaurs. The educators discovered that, in addition to conveying information about conditions long ago, some of the core samples smell bad too. Educators conducted research activities and experiments similar to those that take place during and after scientific ocean drilling expeditions carried out by IODP. Workshop organizers also guided educators through translating scientific findings into useful teaching resources that will benefit future generations of science students. The educators learned about historical climate change, paleoceanography, sedimentology, paleomagnetism and other topics. During a field trip to three locations around Bastrop, TX, the group also examined material related to a brief but intense episode of global warming at the Paleocene/Eocene Boundary, about 55 million years ago. The School of Rock program, which took place this year 22-28 July, is in its third year. It began in November 2005 when the research ship JOIDES Resolution left Victoria, British Columbia and 13 science teachers from across the U.S. headed out to sea. During 16 days at sea, educators had the opportunity to work with ocean drilling scientists and technicians, to experiment on core samples in the ship¹s 12 laboratories and experience life at sea on the nation¹s scientific ocean drilling vessel. This year, educators joined scientists actively engaged in IODP research, IODP education staff and Gulf Coast Repository technical staff on the Texas A&M University campus in College Station, TX.
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