I paid for my own awards, giving $50.00 savings bonds and buying certificates out of my own money. I also wrote letters of congratulations and gave them to the students when I gave them their awards. The sad part was the teachers. Often the teachers would argue with me, not taking my word that "cc" was incorrect or not understanding the correct pronunciation of kilometer.
After a while the parents started wondering why the award wasn't given instantly, even though I had to go get a frame and buy the savings bond before I mailed the award to the students's house.
It did make me feel better, however, because often the students were smarter than their teachers.
MArk
----- Original Message -----
From: Martin Vlietstra <[email protected]>
Date: Wednesday, March 6, 2013 4:37 pm
Subject: [USMA:52453] Re: Science fair that awards "best use of the metric system"
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
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You could look at the lede picture in the Wikipedia article “Metric system” - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_system. The articles in that picture are as everyday as possible.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Remek Kocz
> Sent: 06 March 2013 02:20
> To: U.S. Metric Association
> Subject: [USMA:52448] Re: Science fair that awards "best use of the metric system"
You mean "The Best Use of the Metric System" award? This is the reason why I'm not a huge fan of tying metric exclusively to science. It takes metric out of the domain of the everyday Joe, making it appear as something for specialists only. Case in point here. The award, as bizarre as it is, in the US where metric is seen as a system used exclusively by few professions, makes absolute sense.
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On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Metric Rules Info <[email protected]> wrote:
What does that even mean?
http://www.edenprairienews.com/news/schools/place-nd-in-science-fair/article_87a09f4c-1e80-5c7f-be4a-cba909ec64be.html
