"Our Kids, Our Schools, Our Future" Community Forum Rescheduled for March 12

The Central New York School Boards Association (CNYSBA) community forum originally scheduled for February has been rescheduled for Wednesday, March 12, 2014 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the West Genesee High School Auditorium (5201 West Genesee Street) in Camillus.

The forum, "Our Kids, Our Schools...Our FUTURE!" is free and open to parents, students, community members, educators, school board members and business leaders from all area school districts. The event is sponsored by Central New York School Boards Association, OCM BOCES, T.S.T. BOCES, Oswego County BOCES, and Cayuga-Onondaga BOCES.

WHEN: March 12, 2014

TIME: 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

WHERE: West Genesee High School Auditorium, 5201 West Genesee Street, Camillus, NY 13031

The program is designed to empower the community in becoming advocates for equal educational opportunities for our children. Learn the important issues and know how to make a difference on behalf of our public schools.

Dr. Rick Timbs, Executive Director of the Statewide School Finance Consortium, will address attendees, providing easy-to-understand information about how school districts have been negatively impacted for years by Albany's lack of fairness. Additionally, attendees will receive tools, information and insights that will arm and inspire them to become effective advocates for Our kids, Our Schools and OUR FUTURE.

For additional information about this event, download the flier here. For information about CNYSBA, visit their website at www.cnysba.org.

2014 New York State Academic Decathlon Section III Competition Results

About 80 students from six Central New York school districts recently took part in the 2014 New York State Academic Decathlon Section III Competition sponsored by OCM BOCES.

The team from Cazenovia High School took first place in the daylong competition. The Westhill High School team came in second place and West Genesee High School took third place. 

Those three teams qualified for, and will advance to, the state competition, which is being held February 28 through March 1 at SUNY Brockport. The state winner will go on to represent New York State at the national USAD competition, which is scheduled for April 24-26 in Honolulu, Hawii. 

The following awards were also presented:

Super Quiz (Team) - 

First place: Cazenovia

Second place: West Genesee

Third place: North Syracuse

Overall - 

First place: Remi Boissonnas (Cazenovia), Jennifer Root (Westhill) and Robert Louis (Cazenovia).

Second place: Craig Blume (North Syracuse), Danielle Axelson (Cazenovia) and Stephen Burgay (Westhill).

Third place: Piper McKinnon (Cazenovia), Nathan Gillette (West Genesse) and Emma Dudley (Cazenovia).

Art - 

First place: Piper McKinnon, Danielle Axelson and Robert Louis (all from Cazenovia).

Second place: Remi Boissonnas (Cazenovia), Jennifer Root (Westhill) and Emma Dudley (Cazenovia).

Third place: Luke Faulkner (West Genesee), Hayley Bermel (North Syracuse), Stephen Burgay (Westhill) and Nicholas Serrao (West Genesee).

Economics - 

First place: Craig Blume (North Syracuse), Jennifer Root (Westhill) and Robert Louis (Cazenovia).

Second place: Luke Faulkner (West Genesee), Dana Demitri (North Syracuse), Meghan Geary (North Syracuse) and James Hickey (West Genesee).

Third place: Caitlin Hernandez (North Syracuse), Joseph Mevec (Cazenovia), Callie Campbell (West Genesee), Julie Kunnumpurath (Tully), Justin Wiszniewski (Liverpool) and Matthew Collins (Liverpool).

Language Literature - 

First place: Craig Blume (North Syracuse), Nathan Gillette (West Genesee) and Emma Dudley (Cazenovia).

Second place: Remi Boissonnas (Cazenovia), Aden Orzell (Westhill), Matthew Wood (Tully), Jordan Roach (Westhill), James Hickey (West Genesee), Anastasija Useva (Westhill) and Elizabeth Meluni (Westhill).

Third place: Brock Houghton (Cazenovia), Kurt Gauss (Tully), John Lisi (West Genesee) and Stephen Burgay (Westhill).

Math -

First place: Caitlin Hernandez (North Syracuse), Aiden Kelly (Westhill), Marshal Clemens (Tully), Evan Janes-Rouse (West Genesee), Jennifer Root (Westhill), Madeline Pierce (Westhill) and Stephen Burgay (Westhill).

Second place: Vadim Shakhov (West Genesee), Danielle Axelson (Cazenovia), Matthew Wood (Tully), Elsa Gauss (Tully) and Kazmira Pitzrick (Liverpool).

Third place: Piper McKinnon (Cazenovia), Remi Boissonnas (Cazenovia), Aden Orzell (Westhill), Jacob Mekker (North Syracuse), Riley Lloyd (Cazenovia), John Lisi (West Genesee), Robert Louis (Cazenovia) and Katie Warner (Tully).


Music -

First place: Remi Boissonnas (Cazenovia), Danielle Axelson (Cazenovia) and Stephen Burgay (Westhill).

Second place: Piper McKinnon (Cazenovia), Hayley Bermel (North Syracuse), Nathan Gillette (West Genesee) and Robert Louis (Cazenovia).

Third place: Craig Blume (North Syracuse), Peter Barletta (Tully), Kurt Gauss (Tully), Matthew Wood (Tully), Meghan Geary (North Syracuse) and Kazmira Pitzrick (Liverpool).

Science -

First place: Remi Boissonnas (Cazenovia), Jennifer Root (Westhill) and Robert Louis (Cazenovia).

Second place: Marshal Clemens (Tully), Luke Faulkner (West Genesee), Craig Blume (North Syracuse), John Lisi (West Genesee) and Emma Dudley (Cazenovia).

Third place: Evan Janes-Rouse (West Genesee), Riley Lloyd (Cazenovia), Kazmira Pitzrick (Liverpool), Elena Iaconis (North Syracuse) and Paul Dehm (North Syracuse).

Social Science -

First place: Craig Blume (North Syracuse), Remi Boissonnas (Cazenovia), Nathan Gillette (Westhille) and Robert Louis (Cazenovia).

Second place: Aden Orzell (Westhill), Caitlin Hernandez (North Syracuse), Jennifer Root (Westhill) and Anastasija Useva (Westhill).

Third place: Piper McKinnon (Cazenovia), John Lisi (West Genesee) and Nicholas Serrao (West Genesee).