Call to order. Rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liy and justice
for all. Amen. Play ball. Mr. Bahu. Yes. Mr. Richardson here. Mr. Nco. Mr. Hogan. Present. Mr. Sheen. Yep. Mr. Gian.
Mr. Lame. Here. Mr. Mo. Yeah. Uh, Mr. Bahu. Anybody signed up for public appearance? Mr. Moore, there's no one signed up. Okay. Thank you. Uh,
committee communications. Are there any school committee communications? I guess not. Uh report of super student representatives. There's no report tonight. The new student representative
will be joining us at the next meeting. I need a motion to approve the minute the minutes of the August 21st. So moved, Mr. Chairman. Second. Mr. Bahu. Yes. Mr. Richardson. Yes. Mr. Hogan. Yes. Mr. Sheen,
yes. Mr. Lame, yes. Mr. Morren, yes. Also need a motion to approve the minutes from the September 4th special meeting. So moved. Second. Mr. Bahu. Yes.
Mr. Richardson. Yes. Mr. Hogan. Yes. Mr. Sheen. Yes. Mr. Line. Yes. Mr. Morris. Yes. Uh report of the treasurer. Uh motion to wave the reading. So moved.
Second. Mr. Bahu. Yes. Mr. Richardson. Yes. Mr. Hogan. Yes. Mr. Sheen. Yes. Mr. Lain. Yes. Mr. Morren. Yes. Motion to approve the expenditures of
4,853,7210. Motion. Second. Mr. Bahu. Yes, Mr. Richardson. Yes, Mr. Hogan. Yes, Mr. Sheen. Yes, Mr. Lame. Yes, Mr. Morin. Yes.
Report of general counsel. I guess there's none report from the superintendent director. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The first item on my agenda this evening, I'd like to invite engineering technology instructor, Miss Susan Euings, and three
of our senior engineering technology students, Sadel Alody, Marcus Fetchner, and Aiden Simmons who are here tonight to present their project that was mounted on the HAB through NASA. So,
welcome to our students and our instructor. Yeah. Can you move? Oh, I see. I see. All the way back. Okay. So, Marcus, whenever you're ready. Hi. Uh, this will be the NASA Maxi IQ
HAB project. My name is Marcus. My name is Aiden. My name is So the overview of this project was for Max Max IQ teams up with NASA's Colombia scientific balloon facility in New Mexico from a student centered high altitude balloon launch. Uh the picture
you can see on the left side is what the balloon actually looks like and under it is a gondola attached which will take our projects up. The purpose of this launch is for students to design and prepare sensor payloads such as uh altitude sensors, CO2 sensors and other
sensors that students may come up with using the chips supplied by Max IQ to collect data in near space conditions so high in the atmosphere. This allows students to get real world experience alongside prestigious institutions such as NASA, Prince University and many
others. At these altitudes, the payloads experience extremely low pressure, intense UV radiation, and a wide temperature variation, very similar to what spacecraft face in the upper atmosphere. The concepts that we have explored is to
look at how air pressure changes sound using PZO buzzard buzzers powered by an Arduino system that we coded ourselves. We record sound changes at different distances and time frames uh via the altitude sensors and analyze. We will
analyze our results for frequency shifts shifts and the decible values. The purpose is to enhance acoustic measurement methods and understand how sounds behave in an unobservable environment. This tackles concepts of environmental impact, aerodynamics and frequency analysis. On the far left hand
side of the picture, you can see the decimal meter we used. On the right above that is the white chip supplied by Max IQ. And under that is the Arduino we used for our code. On the top the two devices with a circle and two lines attached, the red and
black are the PZ buzzers we used to emit the sounds. Here we have some data graphs. So the on the left the left hand graph is our decibel meter graph. The sharp drop right around here where the
arrow is shows how excuse me how sound intent how the sound intensely changed quickly depending on the conditions that we had put it in. So the way we did that was we have it we had it really close to the so we had the
PZO buzzer really close to the decibel reader and then we moved it back as time went on. That's so when we started moving it back, that's what indicated the drop. And then using the Max IQ sensor, you
can see the readings that were provided from what had happened during our experiment. So our team was given instructions to design a type of box that would contain a circuit board, the Uno R3. It had to
include these following. Um being able to screw each each side of the box together, having an opening to emit sound from the sound device and all the devices being screwed on the bottom so it doesn't break inside the box. On the right hand side, you can tell like
that's my sketches to um see how like all the circuits and how all the dimensions for everything that's going to be inside the box. And on the bottom left is an example of how the box should look like. These are the inventor and cats drawings
that um my team built. We had openings on the side to for the adrenal card to emit sound. And then the final concept is everything being screwed into each other. And it somehow fit. So that's good.
Did you know it was going to fit? Um, I was praying. Okay, here we have when our project was actually being launched into or onto the high altitude balloon. The very top image shows them preparing the tarmac for the launch.
The very bottom uh bottom left image shows the metal gondola that every of every one of the projects was kept in. Right next to it is our project, I believe, what it was was being contained in. And then on the right the on the
very top of the right is the flight path when the flight started and then on the very bottom is when the flight was descending. So it shows the distance and what uh was picked up.
So this is our next steps once we get the results back on October 16th from the NASA launch. So we can use that in our research and compare to our on land results. We want to compare our ground results with the high altitude sound data to provide real scientific
discovery done by our own students. We want to correlate our findings with environmental sensors such as the altitude, pressure, and temperature sensors to connect classroom learning with national level research. This is also going to help us analyze and create models preparing us for
events like Skills USA, Science Fairs, and potential NASA recognitions. On October 16th, we will be presenting our findings from the upcoming data that will be sent to us to NASA and Max IQ themselves over a Zoom meeting. After
this meeting, we will start prototyping and brainstorming for a later project and invention. Um, we hope this like plans future missions by training more glT students to design custom payloads. This will build a long-term program that will keep
our school on the map for highlevel STEM opportunities. This giving more students an advantage. So, one more thing, sorry. So, we had around three to one to three weeks to work on this. And as we were juniors, we
were working on this. We had started um before us there were many seniors that were working on this on separate NASA projects but we knew that we wanted to get involved early in this because we wanted real um experience so we can put
on applications our own experience. So by doing this is it really helped us boost not only our reputation but also our models and our resumes and our applications and it just gave us an overall fulfillment because of this project. We got to learn what it was
really like in the field with Maxi IQ and NASA. That's what I just want to add. Does anybody else want to share about their experience working in partnership with NASA? What that was like? I was really really stressed because that was finals week and Miss Euans gave
us this really heavy task and I tried to get out of it three times but she said no. But I did it and um it worked and um we went on Zoom with them plenty of times and I felt more like calm because I had two really smart people on my team. So it felt it felt nice.
Yeah. They got to get mentored by um other staff at NASA and VMAX IQ. And how did that feel? I I felt really smart for some reason and I got to add it on my resume. You like just send something like like come on like I was lost on the first page. They they only had a few weeks to build
this. Be amazed what they came up with. Yeah. If I may add something to this conversation, um working with NASA has actually been really like great I have actually been extremely grateful for the opportunity this school has given me
because I didn't even know what I wanted to do before I came here. I knew it was something to do with engineering and then during my freshman year I for some reason fell in love with the concept of aerospace engineering and which that is
building airplanes, helicopters and rockets and I believe working with NASA would be a very good plan for me. That's great. Best of luck. We're happy to be able to provide you with that experience. I think this is what what the three of you did was absolutely awesome. I'm
like, you can't I mean, that's bragging rights all day long. Like, hey, what did you do yesterday? I talked to NASA. Like, I'm a huge science fan. Like, I'm I can't think like congratulate you. Thank you enough for like what you guys represent, Greater Tech like with NASA. That's like it's huge. It's absolutely
huge. Like, you guys should be so proud of the work that you guys did. It's absolutely amazing. And it's not over, right? you're going to be working with NASA this whole year and possibly uh this summer having the opportunity this past summer they did not have the
opportunity to actually attend the launch but I think this coming summer they're going to be coming back and asking for the opportunity to go to 100% uh New Mexico to actually actually see their see their product uh
launch absolutely miss taught us so much about how it was on the tarmac there with all the NASA engineers and we wish we were there and we hope that the future students will be able to talk with them and gain experience. It's great that you're looking off. It was a live link and it just so
happened that the launch was cancelled several times uh because of weather uh but you you were able to watch it live as as it happened. It's not just like a space shuttle going up. things get cancelled last second and you guys must have been like
thrilled to watch it happen and then absolutely oh sorry we're cancelled today try it in another 4 days we'll give it another try again and over and over again and uh if they get the opportunity to come down there they'll be actually installing and doing troubleshooting and
going through a procedure to make sure that it's uh correctly installed so it'll give them technical skills and they'll get to work with the NASA technicians as well as the engineers to We're excited to hear about your results. Maybe once you receive the results and after you uh have your conversation with NASA, maybe you can
come back and share those results with us. Yeah, definitely go from there. Absolutely. We appreciate your time this night tonight and we thank you uh for representing our school well and uh we're happy that we're able to provide
you with the opportunity to learn the skills uh in the career that you're of your choice that you're interested in and engineering technology. Is there any special field in engineering that you'd like to go into? I personally would love to go to mechan into mechanical engineering. That's what
I'm looking forward to right now. Are you interested in any uh post-secary education? Absolutely. I have a very extensive list of schools that I'll be applying to. Which top? Can you share? My top two most likely Nor Eastern and
WPI. Those are right now the schools that I'm looking at on the top. But of course, I have reached schools on my list that would be amazing to get into. I would automatically accept those. I get faith in you. Anybody else want to share? I mean I said earlier I said aerospace
engineering but I my parents have like made me sit in like pretty much they locked me in a chair and made me do research on every single college that I would I liked. So my top two right now are Norwich University for mechanical engineering along with doing the air
force. So as my father said the best way to learn how to make airplanes is from the air force. True. True. Y um I hope to further my engineering by doing civil engineering and my top two
are TUS University in Northeastern. So I love I love your plans. Yeah. And we want to wish you all well and we're here to support you in any way you can as you move towards your journey uh to uh postsecary education and fulfill your
career aspirations. Thank you so much. Congratulations. Congratulations. Thank you to Miss Euing. She Oh, if it you know, to be honest, because the ISS project took so long, I was afraid we would have no NASA have. And I'm so grateful that these students
stepped up. They did an amazing job with just the last week or two schools and again they would be when they started and you pushed them and you pushed. I know. I now feel guilty. She's trying to get through last week has been uh involved in other NASA projects uh with
our students that we were also very successful in. Oh yeah. The past few years. Yeah. It's been pretty amazing all the things that my students have come up with. She was al also Miss Humans also went to the White House to represent our school on a special
council that they asked her to uh to attend because of the work that she's doing in high school with students. So with our students specifically, it goes to show you how often we're always learning things. You guys are learning
things and you all have great drive and we just learned something from all of you. So great. So thank you again. Thank you again. I would just like to say that I've been sitting on this board a little over 10 years now.
If someone would have told me that NASA was involved with our school, I would I You wouldn't believe it. I wouldn't I wouldn't believe it. You wouldn't have believed it. Well, believe it. I happening. I believe I believe just about anything now as far as where this school can go.
what the let alone its students and it's because of you people that are putting us on the map and I appreciate each and one of you every one of you what you're doing of course thank you good job guys
thank you great great presentation Oh yeah we got four guys going to NASA next week that all right Yeah. What school committee are you on? Yeah. I went to school here. I think I never seen that. That's true. Hey, we have a few space. Yeah, we got a few space shots.
No, they were in my class back in I'm going to tell you what year. Thank you. That was a wonderful presentation. The next item on my agenda is I'd be looking for the committee's approval to participate in the Brunt Boot donation program. Uh this is a
program uh in a collaboration with Brunt uh uh work wear as a boot donation program for uh their program is focused on supporting the future of the trades by providing boots to trade school students and other trades people. The
company's goal is to donate a 100,000 pairs of boots to to trade schools across the country, reflecting their mission to support workers in the construction and trade industries. We are currently looking at requesting
seven pallets, each pallet containing approximately 100 pairs of boots. These boots would be available for students use throughout the construction and transportation cluster which has eight programs within it as well as metal
fabrication in the after dark program. The only cost to the school district would be for the shipping of the pallets which is at a cost of $250 per pal per pallet for a total of $1,750.
Looking for a vote for so move. Second. Mr. Bahu. Yes. Mr. Richardson. Yes. Mr. Hogan. Yes. Mr. Sheen. Yes. Mr. L. Yes. Mr. Yes. Thank you. Next. I'm looking for the
committee's approval to accept a donation of a 2012 Toyota Venza with an estimated value of $4,300 from Jim and Roberta Tomichio of Mthuan, Mass. They have family ties to Greater
Lo Technical High School physical education instructor and varsity football coach, uh, Mr. Shane Abrams. The vehicle is in fair condition with approximately 250,000 miles and will be used by students for
mock repairs and donations in the shop for all grade levels and demonstrations. Sorry. The vehicle will be used for mock repairs and demonstrations. Okay. Sorry. So moved. Second. Mr. Boo.
Yes. Mr. Richardson. Yes. Mr. Hogan. Yes. Mr. Sheen. Yes. Yes. Sorry, Mr. Lame. Yes. Mr. Moore. Yes. And the the last item on my agenda is
I'd like to invite uh Jim Mashado, director of practical nursing to join us to present our changes to the 2526 Griddle Technical School of Practical Nursing Student Handbook. And I'll be
asking for approval when Miss Machado is done. Hi school committee members. Hello. I would just like to ask um for add addition of an AI policy that we added specific to course assignments which will notify the students when AI is
going to be permitted. We have also added language to better align with our parent institute greater little technical school with the title 9 sexual harassment policy. Prior to we just had bullying/harassment. This now is inclusive of the new policy
for gradeal technical school to align with that and then included definitions as well as what the actions were if there was a um policy that was filed against that. And then the last bit was
that we added a a PN calendar to the very last page of our handbook because the VA catalog um requested it to be in publication for the practical nurse program. So I'll be looking for your approval to
add these changes to the grid school of practical nursing student. Motion to approve. Second Mr. Bahu. Yes, Mr. Vitson. Yes, Mr. Hogan. Yes, Mr. Sheen. Yes, Mr. Lame. Yes,
Mr. Morris. Yes. Thank you very much. Thank you very much for coming. Thank you. That is that concludes my agenda for this evening. Report of the business manager.
Yes, sir. I'm all set. All right. Uh just a few items for you this evening. The first is a list of school committee transfers. Most of these are salary related now that staff are hired and all back in the buildings. We've encumbered our salaries for the coming year. Um and then just reshuffled
the the funding to make sure that all of our salary accounts are funded appropriately and ready through for the rest of the school year. Motion to approve the transfers. Second. Mr. Bahu. Yes. Mr. Richardson. Yes. Mr. Hogan.
Yes. Mr. Sheen. Yes. Mr. Lame. Yes. Mr. Mor. Mr. Mo. Yes. Yes. Uh, the next item on the agenda is actually a correction to the vote made last meeting on the approval of the
warrants. We inadvertently duplicated one of the warrants on the list um at the believe it was the June meeting as well as the August meeting. Um, so just updating the total that was approved, uh, removing that old warrant, um, to
make sure that it was in line with what was actually spent and approved. Motion to approve. Do we revoke a vote or do we Mr. Bahu? Yes. Mr. Richardson, yes. Mr. Hogan,
present. Mr. Sheen, yes. Mr. Ger, Mr. Hey. Yes. Mr. Warren. Yes. That's it for this evening. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Old business.
New business. Uh committee person motions. Uh nope. Report of the subcommittees. Um earlier today we discussed the new uh
policy and procedure for the desi and uh if does anybody have any input on that? I have no input to report. Yes. I I would ask the attorney to give her a summary if it be all right with you, Mr. chairman.
Yes. Perfect. So, um I think the biggest thing when it comes to making a decision is that we have to make the best decision of two options that we're not in love with. Um the biggest thing with that is making sure that we have some
type of policy in place that meets the recommendations and requirements as set forth in the regulations. um and to continue to work on the back end to wa raise awareness of why we don't think that the lottery process is going to be
beneficial for our student population um and kind of the detriment that it puts us at um by moving forward with that. Um one thing that we are able to do is we're able to revisit the policy every year. So, if we decide that we want to continue with the weighted um lottery,
but we want to make some changes where we only take one thing into consideration as opposed to the three things, or if we want to go to a totally blind lottery, um we're able to make those changes on a year-by-year basis based on kind of reflecting on what happened during the prior year. Um and
so we have about a year wouldn't go into effect until the 2026 um group, but um I think that that gives time to continue to to think about different ways that we can continue to push our ability to ensure that we're
bringing the best students, the most diverse students, um the students who really want to be here and participate and be a part of the program. Um and we know that the underlying issue is the fact that there's not enough seats. Um, so I think that that's something that uh
we can really think about ways that we can raise awareness around that in the fact that at the end of the day we can have all the different admissions policies we want to have, but if you have five people applying for everyone's seat, it someone lots of people are going to get left out. Um, and so, um, I
think that that's kind of what we have to think of what we want to do moving forward and being able to continue to support the students we have here, but also to ensure that we're following the regulations set by Desi. Thank you. Well said. Thank you. Yes. Yep. I mean, to be fair everybody,
the more seats the better. I mean, we want to be fair to everybody. So, I think we need to push and hope legislators will help help us have that happen. I know it's expensive to do now, but I think we owe it to the kids to do it. Okay. Motion to adjurnn. Mr. Chairman.
Yes. Second. Mr. Bahu. Yes. Mr. Richardson. Yes. Mr. Hogan. Yes. Mr. Sheen. Yes. Mr. Le. Yes. Mr. Yes. Thanks everyone. Thank you.