New Lights for the School!

            Anna Hilbruner, working for the Alaska Building Network, came to Chignik Bay School to work on changing the lights to use energy efficient light bulbs. This helps the environment and save our school money. Their guess is that the school will save about $4,579 per year. I think it is pretty cool because that saves the school more money and we can do more stuff with that money.

She said her favorite part of the job is seeing new communities’ and meeting new people. She got her job by meeting the right people and talking about the right things. She said her college degree helped out when she was getting her job.   

The crew getting lights to put up. 

Finishing up the lights. 

The tree in the libary.

The biggest tree cookie in town.

  There is a tree cookie in our library.  Ron Richter was the one that brought it here.  He found the tree cookie in Montana.  He thinks it’s a Ponderosa Pine from the west fork of the Bitter Root Valley.   The tree started to grow in 1512 and the tree died in 1992. The Ponderosa Pine was 480 years old. It has a paper on it that tells when it was born and when it died. There’s a lot of history on it. The paper was written when Ron Richter was helping build the school.

The tree has rings that tell how old it is. Dendrochronology is how to tell time by a tree.  I want to be a Dendrochronology person when I get older and grow up.

 

Science project

 We are having a wonderful year, we started with taking weight from the gym trash to the kitchen trash. Now we have red wiggler worms that are for the compost that has started right after thanksgiving. The experiment was to see how much trash could be reduced. The amount of data collected over the first couple months showed the average was found 25.3 pounds per day. It was then multiplied by the amount of days we had of school. Which was then equaled to a total of 4,630 pounds of trash a year. Our goal this year is to reduce the pounds of trash wasted every day. By doing so we will feed the left overs to the red wiggler worms. As for the metal cans we are going to find new uses and ways to reuse it in projects. I will tell you what those projects will be as soon as we start them.

Do we have enough cans.

Bread anyone it has it's own flavor.

Do i have to weigh this?

Dose this garbage smell funny to you and it weighs more in the kitchen then it dose in the gym.