On Thursday, February 5, 2010, the Linguistics class at St. Saviour High School in Park Slope Brooklyn took their annual field trip to Columbia University. Foreign language teacher Nancy Labrada (an alumae herself of the high school '88) has taught this senior elective course for two years. Her students participated in the fourth annual NACLO (North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad) open round. Ms. Labrada requested recommendations from the high school's Math Department for students that could handle the linguistic puzzles that require strategy and logic to solve. The four hour competition challenged students to demonstrate their ability to understand and analyze human language through decoding. The puzzles were an exciting experience for the Linguistics class which had been practicing examples of recent puzzles for the previous couple of months. Previous puzzles included hieroglyphics, Braille and ideographic symbols. NACLO aims to interest young minds to consider educational careers in the field of language and science technologies. The Linguistics course at St. Saviour focuses on students interested in special education, speech therapy/pathology or just language in general. Back

Home Reporter and Sunset News (May 13, 2009 edition, pg 14)
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Technology Update II

Our continued dedication to technology improvement continued this January when we purchased all new LCD, Flat Screen monitors for our computer lab. The new monitors will not only provide a better viewing experience for our students, they are also a tremendous improvement environmentally over the electricity intensive CRT monitors. In our efforts to remain environmentally conscious all the CRT's were donated to The Children's Storefront to support their community outreach program dedicated to providing free computers and computer education to needy families in Harlem.

April 2009

St.Saviour is pleased to report an incredibly generous hardware donation from St. Josephs College. This past March, St. Saviour received 85 IBM desktop machines, enough to replace every computer in the school and then some! We also received a laptop
cart, 27 IBM ThinkPad laptops, several laser printers, and other ancillary hardware. We're thrilled to be on the receiving end of such generosity. The machines represented an important step in improving our hardware infrastructure and we look forward to the many advantages this will provide our program.

Over the last several months, our technology department along with the senior computer class has been cataloging the inventory, organizing the roll out, cleaning machines, backing up profiles, ghosting machines, and replacing the old hardware with the new IBM's. It's been a lot of work and quite an experience for our seniors who got some real hands on practice.

In keeping with the nature of St. Saviour and our dedication to conservation, we looked to find the best way to repay our good fortune. We've started our own Community Outreach, where we rehab older machines and donate them to members of our St. Saviour community that are in need. We found another home for some of our computers at The Childrens Storefront school in Harlem. Partnering with Technology Director Mr. Steve Bergen, to date we have donated 23 desktops, 10 monitors and other assorted hardware for their community Outreach program to enable under privileged families have a computer. Back

St.Saviour students at Methodist hospital

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