Spaghetti Bridges

Ron Spangelo from APEGM visited the grade 12 physics class to assist in the assessment of the spaghetti bridge assignment. The objective is to build the strongest bridge from regular spaghetti and white glue.  The bridges are to span an opening of 300 mm.  They must be between 320 mm and 400 mm long, no higher than 150 mm and must be no greater than 140 mm in width.  The bridge that holds the most wins.  Mr. Spangelo shared information on the career of engineering and the types of influences that engineers have on our day to day activities.

JT Announcements January 15, 2014

All JT Curlers are to pick up a copy of the playoffs in 309 ASAP.

There is a very important yearbook meeting Thursday at noon.

Any Grade 9, 10 and 11 students' who want to write this year's math contests for Pascal, Cayley or Fermat and don't have math this semester are asked to see Mr. Goetz in Room 211 to register. Students who have math this semester and wish to register, please talk to your math teacher.

The French oratorical speaking competition will take place here at John Taylor Collegiate in March.  Please see Ms. Armistead if you would like to participate or volunteer.

Do you want to travel somewhere in Canada and learn French this summer?  See Ms. Armistead in room 303 if you'd like to know more.  You do NOT have to take French to apply.

John Taylor will be collecting old and used sports clothing and equipment for KidSport Canada, to be given to underprivileged kids in Manitoba. Lists of most needed items will be posted, however all items will be accepted. You can drop off all donations in the office. Thank you for helping in need kids to play the sports we all love.

JT Curling

The JT curling team will be playing in the finals on Monday January 20th at the Charleswood Curling Club.  Games start at 12:30.

John Taylor 50th Reunion

If you have not heard, the John Taylor 50th Reunion Celebration is taking place from May 16-18 2014. We already have close to 750 alumni registered to attend.

You can help by spreading the word to friends of John Taylor by volunteering to assist or by loaning us any artifacts from the 60’s, 70’s , 80’s or 90’s for our Friday night event.

If you can help out contact DeeDee Logan at dlogan@sjsd.net or if you have items to loan that may stimulate the memory bank please contact Ms. Paragg at mparagg@sjsd.net.

JT Announcements January 14, 2014

The JT Boys Curling Team easily won their final game of the regular season against FRC, 5-2. Both the boys and girls teams are now in the zone playoffs starting next Monday afternoon! Way to go teams!

There is a very important yearbook meeting Thursday at noon.

Any Grade 9, 10 and 11 students' who want to write this year's math contests for Pascal, Cayley or Fermat and don't have math this semester are asked to see Mr. Goetz in Room 211 to register. Students who have math this semester and wish to register, please talk to your math teacher.

The French oratorical speaking competition will take place here at John Taylor Collegiate in March. Please see Ms. Armistead if you would like to participate or volunteer.

Do you want to travel somewhere in Canada and learn French this summer? See Ms. Armistead in room 303 if you'd like to know more. You do NOT have to take French to apply.

Upcoming events

The JT Dance Recital will be on Thursday January 16 at 7:00 p.m. in the theatre.

The JT Jazz Cafe is Friday January 17 at 7:00 p.m.  There will be performances by the John Taylor Jazz Bands, Rock Band, Choir Vocal Jazz and Dance Troupe. Tickets for the Jazz Cafe are $5.00 each. 

John Taylor hosted the 43rd Piper Classic

John Taylor hosted the 43rd Piper Classic. This basketball tournament ran over 3 days at two venues. There were over 60 student and staff volunteers helping out at this event. Highlights included two special presentations. Fred Sackey received the Nick Laping Award, and Samantha Line was acknowledged for her volunteerism, student council and philanthropic contributions, as well as her AP academics, as the recipient of the Dennis Schrofel Award.

Special thanks to Mr. Marquart for his leadership in organizing this event.