A reminder that this week is FALL BREAK on Thursday the 17th and Friday the 18th.

We hope you all have a fun break and get revived in order to come back finish out the rest of term 1.

School will resume on Monday, the 21st and it will be an "A" day. 

REMINDER-The deadline to drop Concurrent Enrollment Courses through UVU is next Friday, October 18th. However, next Thursday and Friday are Fall Break, if you need help dropping a class, please see the front office before fall break. 

Young Women from across Nebo School District were able to experience a unique celebration of Ada Lovelace Day at Qualtrics in Provo, Utah today.  As part of Women’s Leadership Development at Qualtrics, students were invited to educate themselves in career opportunities and growth for women in tech fields. Students were able to tour the Qualtrics Provo unique offices and beautiful facilities.  They also participated in break out leadership sessions and were part of an engaging panel discussion with women leaders in research, marketing, and engineering.

A college education is the KEY to your future, which can be anything from a one-year certificate to a four-year degree and beyond. This week at the ALC, we are hosting our Utah College Application Week (UCAW), which acquaints all our students with the importance of preparing for and attending college.

At the ALC, we are specifically helping our seniors in our ENGL 1010 courses, to complete and submit at least one college application, as well as learn about college admissions, scholarships, and the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).

If your senior is not in our ALC ENGL 1010 course, they will be participating in Utah College Application week back at their home high school either this week or next week.

Ms. Ronda Hair took 3 of our ALC students to the Adobe I-Heart-Tech Conference that Adobe hosted recently.

There were close to 350 students who attended. 

The workshops were based on STEAM (Science, Tech, Engineering, Arts, and Math) education. In a robotics workshop, students faced several programming challenges. The final task was to have their “mBot” robot follow a curving black path. The team with the fastest robot advanced and raced other teams. The coveted prize was Fitbits for the fastest bot.

People learn in different ways – hearing, seeing or doing. 

Visual – You learn by seeing

Auditory – You learn by hearing

Kinesthetic – You learn by doing

If you are a Visual Learner, you will learn best if you can see it. You love images, posters, charts, videos, diagrams, etc., and you like to take notes to help you remember.

If you are an Auditory Learner, you learn best by listening. You love a good discussion and listening to interesting stories to help you remember.

If you are a Kinesthetic Learner you need to use all of your senses. You prefer a hands-on approach to help you remember.

To understand how something works, sometimes you just have to go all the way back to the basics.

In Mr. Halls Avaition class, that is exactly what they did. In order to understand the airplanes they will someday be flying, They needed to understand all the pieces to the airplane and how they work. 

For the past few days the students have been learning about engines, and even had to build an engine starting from the first little nut and bolt ending with the finished product. 

The students had a fun hands-on learning experience figuring out exactly how an engine works.

Mr. Halls is amazing at giving these students engaging activities to improve their learning. Thank you. 

'I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers'  This is my favorite time of the year.  

Glad October  (Tune: America The Beautiful)

Oh, beautiful the autumn time!

October days are here;

The trees in royal garments clad

Join in our songs of cheer.

The earth is holding festival

In colors bright and gay;

The world is like a picture fair

This glad October day.

Chorus—-

Oh, autumn time, we welcome you

with songs of joyous cheer,

Remembering your colors bright

Throughout the whole glad year.

Oh, brightly now the fires gleam

Upon the hearth at night;

And gladly now we linger long

Each year, young girls from middle and high schools are invited to fly with Delta on an entirely female-operated flight, from the ramp agents to pilots to dispatchers. On October 5th, The ALC has the honor of being chosen as one of the 6 schools involved in the 5th annual Women Inspiring Our Next Generation Flight.(WING)

There will be 20 girls from the ALC, along with Mrs.Hair and Ms. Wilson who will be representing the ALC on this annual flight.

For the last two days Choas, Utah County Sheriff's canine officer, along with his handler Jory Provstgaard and fellow deputy, Tony Sorensen (who had to be the guinea pig for the demonstration), came and talked to the students in Mr. Robinson's Criminal Justice classes.

The students loved the demonstrations of how Choas can apprehend a suspect and will keep the suspect in his clutches until his handler tells him to release him.

They talked about how they like to use canines more and more because you can call back a dog after you send them into a situation, whereas if you use a gun or a taser you cannot take back the effects those may do to a victim.