Elephant Walk Original Photo

Hello, I just returned from the Northern Regional Fall Rally. This year we were hosted by Franklin Middle School in Chantilly, VA. Mr. Bud Jacobs is a relatively new advisor to TSA. He also set up our trip to the new airplane museum new Dulles International Airport.
The Fall Rally was a great success with the work of your Regional President, Heather Hennebury. She is a junior from Colonial Forge High School. Currently we have only 4 officers serving for this year. Besides Heather, Matt is the Vice-President: Joe Vickers is the Historian, and Tyler Crews is the Parlimentarium. These last two guys are my 8th grade students from Rappahannock County. Notice the 4 open positions including: Secretary, Treasurer, Sgt. at Arms, and Reporter. TSA students are encouraged to take this opportunity for leadership positions by downloading the application from the Va TSA website. You must completely fill it out including all required signatures and mailing it to Ms. Yvette Edwards, our new TSA Specialist.
Since I am learning the best way to blog, eveyone reading this will find my posts wander around abit. I'll try to get better as I go along. I think this is the sceond photo I ever blogged. Just trying to see how everything comes out. The photo I choose was one that I took when I made the plaque for last year's Rally held at Rappahannock County High. I wanted to create some excitement and reward students that showed the most teamwork. Wevey chapter was asked to stand in a straight line and hold hands like elephants do when they travel. The chapter in attendnace at the rally would have an advantage in this contest. The last 'elephant' stand on the starting line and on go every team takes off to the finish line. When the first 'nose' passes the finish line, that team won. ..... I admit I did not even record which school won the initial contest in Fall of 2004. Someone reading this must know and I encourage an email to me to get it listed in this blog. .... The school was awarded a wooden plaque with the photo here on it. ..... This year we forgot to hold the contest so it'll be the Fall Rally of 2006 for a new school to be the keeper of the award.
I intend to start making blog known to all TSA advisors and members in the Northern Region. It is set up to not accept comments to posts. Members of this blog (meaning who can make posts on it), will be determined through dialogue of interested adviors via emails. 

Ron Vickers

This is a photo of me. It was taken when a group of professionals were planning the pilot course, Geospatial Technologies. With lots of assistance from a community volunteer, RCHS members were able to enter the Geospatial contest last spring. Each superintendent's district was included in the piloting of this exciting new course. A couple of other schools bought into the ArcGis software to enable 13 different schools to offer the course to students. It is my understanding that a statewide license is in the works for every school division in the state. This means students throughout the state may get the chance to learn about these technologies. ...... Since this is my first postiong of a photo in the blog, I had not planned out what to include . .... Keep checking back to learn of local RCHS TSA news. I will try to post meeting agendas, opportunities to use the school labs after school, announcements, and celebrating student successes.

Rappahannock Students became Virginia TSA state champions in the first ever Geospatial Technologies Contest.

First post for testing

Hello Rappahannock Students,

This blog was created for a couple of reasons.

First I wanted to learn more personally about what is happening in the world. I keep hearing more and more about bloggers. If I have a project, I would spend the time and this NTTI conference I am attending will be time well spent.

Second reason is to expand what I want you guys to know about TSA at Rappahannock