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II SATURDAY I AUGUST 8f 2009 II Oss? Otegfi) Sms on SeahawksTCamp crsriza i r- 1 1 KITSAPSUNCOM ALLYN I BAINBRIDGE IS I BANGOR I BELFAIR I BREMERTON GIG HARBOR I HANSVILLE I INDIANOLA I KEYPORT I KINGSTON Bin CENTS MANCHESTER I OLALLA I PORT GAMBLE I PORT LUDLOW I PORT ORCHARD I POULSBO I SEABECK I SILVERDALE I SOUTHWORTH I SUQUAMISH OLYMPIC COLLEGE NORTH KITSAP SNEAKING IN SOME SUMMER LEARNING School Change Getting a Cool Greeting Come fall teachers will get time to meet and collaborate during the school day But some of those teachers call the change a By MARIETTA NELSON FOK THE KITSAP SUN POULSBO North Kitsap and Kingston high schools will implement controversial new class schedules when school begins in September despite strong protests from parents and a few teachers and skepticism on the part of some school board members School district leaders have defended the new schedules as vital to improving teaching in North Kitsap Several hours are set aside each week for teachers to meet and collaborate on better teaching methods in being called learning Those hours will include tutoring and enrichment activities for students instruction is the said Shawn Woodward director of teaching and learning the investment trying to But critics of the plan urged district leaders to delay the new SEE SCHOOL I A3 PHOTOS BY 8TZVZ ZUGSCHWIXDT I THI KITSAP SUN d'Artagnan Walker 9 and Dylan Sawyer 12 of Port Orchard work with their Lego robots at a Lego Robotics class at Olympic College this week Kitsap youngsters absorb lessons in the guise of leisure during a weeklong camp designed to help them devise ideas about what they might want to do as adults By KEELEY SMITH I ksmith2kita psuncom BREMERTON Fourth-grader Walker spent his summer vacation this week hunched over a computer at Olympic College using software to design build and operate a Lego robot For students like camp this summer is in a classroom Weeklong sessions like Lego Robotics help them keep their brains tuned up while letting them have a little fun at the same time a lot of fun seeing a robot do what you told it said think robotics is really my Lego Robotics is the most popular class in Olympic program with its 70 registered students making up half of all Edventures participants Classes take place at both Poulsbo and Bremerton campuses throughout the summer and include offerings like Web design 3-D animation Flash animation and digital photography and graphics "Every kid has different interests and ours are really into their said Wendy Miles the director of Continuing Education program SEE LEARNING I A10 The vehicle was constructed by students in the Lego Robotics class before they programmed it to follow a track MORE CLASSES Continuing Education program has summer 'Edventure classes planned for students in grades 4-12 throughout August Additionally on Sept 25 OCs Continuing Education program is hosting the Your Energy camp geared toward children in grades 4-9 from 8:30 am to 3 pm Camp activities include building a wind turbine a solar assessment tool and conducting an energy audit for one of the campus buildings Cost is $50 For more information on the remaining 'Edventure programs or on energy camp call (360) 394-2725 CENTRAL KITSAP How Can We Keep Kids From Drowning? Criticisms over the fire response to a recent death at Wildcat Lake shifted Thursday to a search for constructive solutions By JOSH FARLEY JFARLZYtf KITSAP! (JNCOM Some Journeys Are Longer Than Others Two Maori men from New Zealand are participating in this Tribal Journeys paddle event which is hosted by the Suquamish Tribe Such an observation was one cultural of many exchanges at this Tribal Journeys canoe sojourn which ended in Suquamish with a gathering of thousands of indigenous people from the Pacific Northwest and even a few from New Zealand Temara and Francis Mamaku of the Tuhoe Tribe near the Bay of Plenty in New Zealand paddled during Tribal Journeys with the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde which is near Salem Oregon The Grand Ronde trucked their canoe to SEE JOUENEY I A4 this Tribal Journeys The Maori of New Zealand and the seafaring native people in the Pacific Northwest and Canada have similar rituals of protocol the formal system of asking for permission to come ashore when canoes approach Temara said Asking permission to come ashore is honorable thing to Temara said By DEREK SHEPPARD DSHEPPAXD KIT1APSUNCOM SUQUAMISH There may be 7000 miles of ocean between the indigenous people of New Zealand and Pacific Northwest but Tamahou Tema-ra finds many similarities between his own Maori people and the tribes he is joining for SEABECK Paramedics have about three to five minutes to breathe life into someone who has drowned It took Central Kitsap Fire and Rescue crews eight minutes and 13 seconds to get to Wildcat Lake the evening that 13-year-old Trenten Morris died sad as it may CK Fire Chief Ken Burdette said was Trenten Morris too late to save Burdette called the meeting with the public on Thursday night to respond to criticism his fire officials received that they do enough to And and save Morris who went missing under the water after mentioning that SEE DROWNING I AS GUIDE CluilAed Cl IDesrAbby B6 I Lottery AS I Newillne AS I Opinion Comics B7 I Horoscope BS I Movies A3 I Obituaries AS I Puzzles AS I Stocks A7 BS I Television BS A II HOW TO REACH US WEATHER COMING SUNDAY ad Duty: An Air Force sergeant from Brownsville recently returned from his lixth deployment to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware where he helped get the bodies of America's fallen service members back to their families I NEWS A Considerable cloudiness High 70 Low 58 I BIO Home Delivery (800)325-9985 Switchboard (360)377-3711 Newsroom (360)792-8558 i I I a i.