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16 Wednesday, December 25, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon CONTEST: Event promotes science education Sisters Christian Academy helps ‘Feed the Need’ By Jodi Schneider Continued from page 3 Gilliam for their project, <The Purple Brick.= Carnahan, who worked solo, explained how her invention, River Claw, will automatically pick up plastic as it gets trapped in netting and will automatically trans- port the material into a recy- cle bin. The students had four weeks of working on their projects in class, two days a week. They also had the option of working on their projects outside of class. Science and math instruc- tor Randy Muir has been teaching at Sisters Christian Academy for over 20 years and was there to support the six students as they presented their projects or inventions to the enthusiastic audience dur- ing the assembly. <One of the best ways to learn and to develop a love for learning is to allow stu- dents the opportunity to be actively involved in a real- world project,= Muir said. <As they move through their projects, they9re learning about the science behind their inventions, how to work on a project from beginning idea to end product, and how to work with others in a small group. Inventerprise fulfills an opportunity to learn all those life-enhancing skills.= For over a decade Muir has entered students from Sisters Christian Academy into the Inventerprise Contest Challenge. The Inventerprise Contest began in 1992 as an out- growth of a business-edu- cation partnership between Bend Research and the Bend-La Pine School District to promote science education and enrich students9 educa- tional experience. Fourteen years ago, Central Oregon Community College joined the effort by helping to plan and run the contest. New this year, the Riverhouse on the Deschutes has joined the part- nership by offering up space for the contest. Correspondent It9s the holidays, and Sisters Christian Academy (SCA) teachers and students were busy last week, boxing gifts of a different kind. A Feed the Need pack- ing party kicked off early in the school gymnasium on Thursday, December 19, with a full school effort participat- ing in the process of scoop- ing, weighing, sealing and then packing the sealed bags of high-protein dehydrated meals in a box for hungry children and orphans in Haiti. Robbie Gilliam, SCA principal, guided students, teachers and volunteers from the community through the process of packing 10,000 meals. Approximately 1,500 of those meals will be dis- tributed locally in Central Oregon including Sisters Kiwanis Food Bank. The scene was exciting and filled with energy. All the volunteers wore hairnets and gloves before handling anything. Huge bins were full of dehydrated food, with rice, soy, powdered vitamins and a vegetable mix that gets accurately measured and then goes into a plastic bag that is sealed and shipped to Haiti, where it will feed an orphan- age for a year. Gilliam told The Nugget, <This is a way for us to give back in the process of us rais- ing money. Our biggest goal was to get the students to focus on something bigger than themselves and realize their world is bigger than Sisters, Oregon.= Heather Commins, sec- ond- and third-grade teacher, noted, <It9s a great opportu- nity for them to realize how much they have and how much they can impact others in need.= Science teacher Randy Muir added, <They get to be a part of the whole process.= Kindergarten teacher Sarah Carnahan watched over the kindergarten class who took on the job of draw- ing colorful pictures on the boxes. <Decorating the boxes is such a fun way for the littles to get involved with being a part of this project,= she said. <They are sending pictures and messages of encourage- ment to the students in Haiti.= Haiti9s food problem is the worst in the world, with statistics revealing a fearful food crisis throughout the country. Two out of three Haitians are believed to sur- vive on a limited sum of $2 or less per day. 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