Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Lee's SWAT Team

SWAT (Students Working to Advance Technology) is recognized throughout the nation. The following is SWAT's mission statement:
“The mission of the nationally recognized SWAT concept is to promote student leadership training, address technology competencies, provide outreach to the community through parent involvement, corporate support, and student community service, and to encourage collaboration among student SWAT Teams nationally.”
SWAT has been in the El Paso District since 2005 and is expanding. Lee Elementary has a SWAT Team made up of fourth and fifth grade students. These students applied to get into the program and were then interviewed and accepted. As in any extracurricular program, students are expected to have passing grades and good behavior .

SWAT members attend technology training sessions. Their most recent technology training sessions were Blogging and ePals (Presenters: Sherita Martin & Earl Yager). Lee SWATs are now using their ePal accounts and have their blogs up and running. The SWAT students also monitor students using computers during their lunch time in the cafeteria.




Lee will soon be accepting SWAT applications for the 2008-2009 school year.

3 comments:

  1. GREAT JOB! I'm so proud of all of the students at Lee and I appreciate all of their hard work and dedication. We are working hard to give our students the BEST of everyting. I want to thank Ms. Yager, Ms. Marquez, Mr. Yager, and Ms. Martin for all of their help.

    Thank you to all!
    Ms. O'Leary

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  2. Thank you Mrs. O’Leary for affording all the students as well as the teachers many opportunities to advance their technology skills. I really enjoy working with the faculty, staff, and students at Lee!

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