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Make Up Days Secheulde
A newly revised school calendar has been posted to reflect the make up days scheduled due to recent days missed because of winter weather.

As per the approved school calendar, we will use February 15, 2010 and May 20, 2010 as make up days for the 2 days we missed due to hazardous road conditions. A revised school calendar has been posted through the School Calendar link at the top of the page.

New Home & School Connection
The February 2010 Issue of Home & School Connection has been posted on our web site. February Home & School Connection.
Previous issues of Home and School connection can be accessed from our Home & School Connection Page. A link to the Home and School Connection page can also be found in the left menu column.

2010-2011 School Calendar
At the board of education meeting on Tuesday, January 19, 2010, the Gideon School Board approved the school calendar and school start date for the 2010-2011 school year. Students will return for the start of school on Thursday, August, 12, 2010. Teachers will return on Monday, August 8, 2010. View the 2010-2011 (next year) school calendar by clicking on this link.

Graduation
At the December 8, 2009 board meeting, the Gideon Board of Education officially set the 2010 Graduation date for Sunday, May 16 at 3:00 PM in the New Gym.

HippoCampus

The state of Missouri has joined HippoCampus. This service provides a number of resources and even allows teachers to set up online course content. HippoCampus is ideal for online environments, but also has many resources to support face to face instruction. Click on the HippoCampus Icon above to access the site or use the link in the center menu bar above.

Adobe Reader
Some of the files on our site are created with Adobe Acrobat 9.1. Earlier versions of Adobe Reader may not properly read these files. You can get the latest version of Adobe Reader from the Adobe site: Acrobat Reader Latest Version.

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Make up Days

February 15, 2010 -- Monday -- School will be in session for a make up day!

May 20, 2010 -- Thursday -- School will be in session for a make up day!

Gideon HS Student Video for the Missouri Rural Water Association Video Contest

High school instructor Mr. Jim Breece worked with a group of our students to design, film, narrate and produce the above video to be submitted as part of the Missouri Rural Water Association Video Contest. Congratulations to our sudents for such a nice job and an inspiring message about helping to keep our water supply safe!

Around Campus

Gideon Robotics Team

As part of our Principles of Technology course, Gideon students are participating in a robotics design contest. This year's teams have selected the names Terminator Dawgs and Malicious Mutts. Instructor Caleb Robinson reports that "the Gideon robotic teams' season is well underway." We are just starting the second semester "and we find ourselves starring at a robot. If you asked us back in September if we thought we would be this far, the answer would have been no. The two teams have been working very hard at designing, building, and programming the robot since the beginning of the program. We have until February 27, 2010 to finish both robots and have them ready for competition."

Through this program, the class has had the help of several mentors from all over Missouri that have aided in the process. According to Mr. Robinson: "The students are very engaged in the activity. Some have even mentioned that this is the first time that they have ever built anything."

In describing the process Mr. Robinson indicates that this "is a difficult process to complete because of the rules that limit what you can use and how big the robot can be. The question that keeps coming up is, why can't we use duct tape?"

The limitations are all part of the challenge. The students have to build a robot that shoot balls into three different goals and they have to be able to maintain control of the robot at the same time. According to Mr. Robinson, "the students can't simply strap a pitching machine on the robot and go at it. We are still far from being done and with the first competition already past, we can't afford to stop or slow down now. Look for us at Cape on February 27, 2010. We plan on being the teams that are winning!"

If you would like more information about starting a team or about the competitions it can be found at www.usfirst.org.

Mission

The mission of the Gideon School District is to educate students to become responsible, productive participants in society.

Welcome

Welcome to the Gideon School District web site. As a district, we have made a commitment to utilize technology to enhance the educational process in our quest to help our students, teachers, and community members become the "life-long learners" demanded by today's society. It is our goal to use technology to open new educational opportunities to our students and community, to centralize district contact information, to provide access to public data and information concerning the Gideon School District, to establish a secure means by which parents can have timely access to information about their child's educational progress, to enhance instructional planning and assessment, to manage the district's curriculum, and to more efficiently manage district resources as well as implement other innovations as they become available.