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Welcome to Aerospace at Farnsworth!!
Thank you for coming to Hmong New Year!**NEWS ALERT**No school November 27-28 due to Thanksgiving Holiday!!
Our mission is to provide challenging academics that will prepare the next generation of explorers.  Our school community will inspire students and their families to examine, understand and protect our planet and beyond.

Skating Party fundraiser at Saints North is scheduled for today, December 2 from 6:00 pm-8:00 pm.  Admission is $5 with $1 rebate back to Farnsworth for every admission.  Hope to see all of you there.

Congratulations to former Farnsworth student, Pachia
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The dance group, "Tseem Nkauj Hmoob" performed during Hmong New Year!!
Thao, for winning the prestigious national Young Scholars award from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation.  PaChia and another student were two of 75 recipients selected from a competitive national pool of over 1,000 applicants, six of whom are from the Breakthrough St. Paul Program.

Thank you Hmong Parents, staff and Title I for making the Hmong New Year at the Cleveland-South campus a success.  A wonderful program was planned with performance that included traditional Hmong instruments and dances as well as modern dances that featured break dancing.

Parents, students and staff traveled to Cape Canaveral for the STS-126 shuttle launch at Kennedy Space Center on November 13-18.  Endeavor launched on Nov.
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The crew of STS-126 is ready for the November 14 launch!
14 at 6:55 pm.  The launch of Space Shuttle Endeavor featured St. Paul native Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper.  Check out the galleries below of the trip.

Several students joined in with Dr. Vincent and Mrs. Wall to view the final t-shirt with every 2007-2008 students and staff name on the front and back.  The t-shirt went on the STS-126 to space with Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper, a St. Paul native.  The Launch was November 14, 2008 and we can't wait 'til it returns home.

Sixth grade students and parents may put an order for the slideshow video that was presented during the sixth grade celebration last school year, 2007-08.  Mr. Xiong will make as many DVD as needed.

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REMINDERS!

Notify the school or send a note to school with your child the next day if he/she is
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Students looking to find their name in the t-shirt that will travel to space!
ill.  We are striving for perfect attendance.

Important Dates:

December

1: Trimester 2 begins
11: Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
Instrumental Band Concert, 7-9 pm
22: Winter Break

January (Happy New Year!)

5: School resumes

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Image Gallery: STS126 Launch trip-day 1
Click to view images of our trip to watch the shuttle launch.
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Image Gallery: STS126 Launch trip-day 2
Click to view images of the STS-126 Launch.
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Image Gallery: STS-126 Launch trip-Saturday
Click to view images the various activities of our STS-126 Florida trip.
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Image Gallery: Expansion Celebration Week
View pictures from our Expansion week, Sept. 8-12, 2008.
K-4 grade students sang school song. Digger posing with future scientists! Digger with former two former Farnsworth students. See all 10 images.


Image Gallery: U of M Visit
Sixth graders visited the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN. View random pictures from this wonderful experience.
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Image Gallery: Team Blue vs. Team Red
A friendly exhibition match between Farnsworth's fifth and sixth graders was held on Friday, May 6 at Johnson High School gymnasium.
Standing room only for the Farnsworth boys basketball game. The crowd cannot wait! The band is ready to play a few tunes before the game starts. See all 16 images.


Image Gallery: Digger Day, May 6, 2008
Retired astronaut, "Digger" Duane Carey visited our school and showed exclusive videos of his past mission to space. Thank you for visiting and making our day feel special. It was awesome!!
Digger shared his experience with all grade levels. Here, he is entertaining questions from the Kindergarten students. Digger takes time to pose with future astronauts! There were many kids that wanted to be like Digger! See all 6 images.


Image Gallery: Past trips, school events and guests
Fifth and sixth graders went to visit the Challenger Learning Center and Illinois Wesleyan Univ. on Jan. 6-9. Betty Shanahan also visited our school on Jan. 16th.
Chemistry major Jason Koval '09 demonstrates chemical reactions to fifth- and sixth-grade students from Farnsworth Aerospace Elementary Magnet School in St. Paul, Minn., who visited Illinois Wesleyan on Jan. 8. Photos by Marc Featherly, Illinois Wesleyan University Biology major and daughter of the tour leader Bridget Wall '08 helps with an experiment that shows how scientists identify gases when light is shown through them. Looking on are sixth-graders Alex Toney (left) and Jasmine Settles. Photos by Marc Featherly, Illinois Wesleyan University Chemistry Lab Supervisor Melinda Baur demonstrates reaction when dry ice is mixed with other substances. Photos by Marc Featherly, Illinois Wesleyan University See all 9 images.


Image Gallery: STS-126 Launch trip-Sunday

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Student Pick-up and Drop-off Info.!!
Make sure you know where to drop-off students for school as well as where to pick them up.  Read the following information for more specifics.

School News Continue...
Click here to read and see what's been happening at our school.

Engineer Family Night
On March 10, 2008 from 6:30-8:00 pm, we held an Engineering Family Night in the school gymnasium.  We had a great learning time.  Look at the pictures!!

Space Camp 2007
On Sunday, October 7, thirty-four students and six chaperones ventured off to Space Camp in Huntsville, AL.  They will return on Friday, Oct. 12.  Use this page to follow our students.

ALC (After-School) Favorites
Our after-school students have been working with the following websites to help with their math and language art skills.  Click on the following links for drill and practice.  Most of the activities are not grade level specific.  Some of the sites may overlap one another.  What you find in one may be in another website as well.

Astronaut Stefanyshyn-Piper Visits
Farnsworth held a Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper Day on December 5, 2006.  View pictures from the school assembly, dinner and family night. 

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