Assemblyman Steve Hawley of the 139th Assembly District stopped by Holley Middle School/High School (MS/HS) on October 23 to help the Holley Central School District celebrate Public Schools Week. Since the week of October 22 through 26 is also School Board Recognition Week, Hawley began his visit by having lunch with several members of the Holley Board of Education and the district’s administration team.
Next, the Board members and Hawley attended a Current Events class, where teacher Nick D’Amuro explained the ongoing multimedia projects the students were working on. Current Events students were working on their first podcast to be released later that week. German foreign exchange student Janne Grasshoff spoke with Hawley about her segment of the podcast that focuses on her impressions of America. Grasshoff is spending this year at Holley MS/HS as part of her exchange experience sponsored by the Holley Rotary Club.
Hawley answered students’ questions about his position in state government, how he got started in politics and his views on current events. He also observed students in the MS/HS Library using Sphero BOLTs, trying to guide their remote-controlled robots up a ramp into a garbage can.
Hawley then met with technology teacher Tim Rogers, who showed the assemblyman the blueprints for the project that this year’s Geometry in Construction class is working on. Geometry in Construction is a class that teaches students how to take math concepts and apply them to real-world problems to create solutions. This year, the class will be building a barn for Homesteads for Hope in Spencerport.
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