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Mr. Keating's Class Project, Storied Lives
A Message From Mr. Keating:
"Our mission is to connect the generations by having young people write stories about the lives of the elderly in their community. We enable young people's lives to benefit from the knowledge of the elderly and the lives of the elderly to be brightened and honored by the young."
This is a program that we are bringing back to FHHS after a few years of being dormant. We have brought twelve of our AP World History students (sophomores) to work with residents of Fountain View Village. Our intent is twofold:
A) To have our students connect with those outside their generation, but inside their wider community.
B) To have our AP World students begin to view and analyze history from a variety of perspectives.
This process will take several months, and will include multiple face-to-face interviews. After these initial meetings, the students will be crafting personalized stories which will be read in the presence of their resident at a special ceremony. We are assisted by Teri Larson at Fountain View Village (far left of the photo) and Patti Milligan (far right of the photo), who originally brought the program to Fountain Hills High School with her son Reilly Milligan (though he graduated several years ago she has still been an active, positive member of the community working with the school). We will be announcing our final presentation of the stories to the wider community in January (tentatively January 18th), and hope that anyone interested will attend.
It has truly been a joy to see the interactions that these two groups have had.
Honolulu Marathon
 FHHS student, David Hampton, recently
participated in the Honolulu Marathon. He trained hard for this full marathon and we are excited to report that he finished with a time of 4 hours and 48 minutes. Great job, David!
Wrestling
The Falcon wrestlers competed last weekend at the Coronado meet and senior, Leyton Kauffman took first place in his division and was named the competition's "Outstanding Wrestler".
VEX Robotics
A message from Dr. Paul:
Thirty five
teams participated in the 3rd Vex competition in Fountain Hills. This time the high school teams competed from as far south as Tucson and as far north as Flagstaff.
Our 1471 G team from engineering class was ahead in first place for half of the tournament. The members of that team were Scott Sorenson, Ryan Griggs and Ethan Wilson. They were in 7th place as the final teams were chosen for the playoffs. They were finally defeated in the very last final round against the winning teams from Mesa. They were all very excited to go almost all the way.
Our 1471 A team from the club brought home a trophy. They won the skills individual award where they received the top scores for both programming and drivers skills.
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