Twelve members of CodeRams, J-D High School’s computer science club, participated in Lockheed Martin’s Code Quest in Owego over the weekend. J-D was represented by five teams: four advanced, one novice. Code Quest is an annual computer programming competition where teams of two to three high school students work together to solve problems by using …
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Registration continues for kindergarten students for the 2023-24 school year. Students registered by May 5 will be sent kindergarten orientation information, which will be in May. Students must be registered in order to participate. To be eligible to enroll, students must be five years of age on or before December 1, 2023. You will need …
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On May 16, district residents will elect three members of the Jamesville-DeWitt Central School District Board of Education. Four candidates filed nominating petitions, and the three with the highest number of votes will fill the available seats. Each term will run from July 1, 2023, to June 30, 2026. Voting will take place from 7 …
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Jamesville-DeWitt Varsity Softball Co-captains were proud to present the board of education with a $64,362 check during Monday night’s meeting. Parents and volunteers were also in attendance for the exciting announcement. Co-captains Emily Bulone, Kaira McMahon, and Amanda Aitken took turns at the podium outlining a true team effort in raising the funds which will …
The Jamesville-DeWitt Central School District’s special education classroom, The Tecumseh Learning Pad, more than doubled last year’s lemonade stand funds. The group brought in a whopping $5,465.60! The funds will be distributed between the Central New York Autism Society of America and ARISE Adaptive Design. Learning Pad students helped prepare more than 700 lemonade bottles …
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OCM BOCES inducted 189 students into the National Technical Honor Society or NTHS Tuesday. Six J-D High School students were among those honored at the ceremony held at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in East Syracuse. During the ceremony, students lit candles to represent the seven attributes of being an NTHS member. They also received …
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For the first time, the Tecumseh Learning Pad has expanded its Lemonade Stand. It’s available to staff every day this week at Jamesville Elementary, Moses DeWitt Elementary, and J-D High School. The Tecumseh Learning Pad is the district’s 12:1:(3+1) special education classroom housed at Tecumseh Elementary School. Students have helped prepare more than 700 lemonade …
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On May 16, the Jamesville-DeWitt Central School District will be asking residents to vote on the 2023-2024 school budget proposal as well as elect three district residents to the J-D Board of Education. Qualified voters can file an absentee ballot application if they will not be able to vote in person due to illness or …
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Members of the United States Armed Forces may request an application for a military ballot to vote in the upcoming Jamesville-DeWitt Central School District budget and board of education election on May 16. In 2019, New York state implemented a law giving members of the military the opportunity to cast their ballots for the election …
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