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1st place $8,000.00 2nd place $4,000.00 3rd place $2,000.00 4th place $1,000.00 Individual awards or cash prizes! CHECK OUT OUR ARTIFICIAL ICE!!!! Entry Fees: $1,000.00 Local teams/$800.00 Visiting teams (8) only. Status cards required, open tournament. 12 team format/round robin A & B Pools. Tournament open to 16 yrs. of age and older only. For more information, contact: Sandy Lake Recreation Office (807) 774-5445

A-Side Championship $5,000.00 + medallions & trophy $1,000.00 + medallions & trophy B-Side Championship $500.00 + medallions & trophy Entry Fees: $1,000.00 Local teams / $800.00 Visiting teams (6) only. 1 hour free ice time for visiting teams! Teams must be in Sandy Lake December 4. Deadline: November 25, 2002. Teams must consist of a maximum of 15 players, made up of eleven 15 & 16 year olds, two 14 year olds and two 17 year olds For more information, contact: Ozzie Kakepetum, Sandy Lake Recreation at (807) 774-5445

Keewaywin's Smart team members went over to the KiHS site to welcome our new Internet high school teacher Mandy Fry who hails from North Bay. From the looks of things she is getting some great support from the students, Keewaywin school staff and community members. Fourteen students started classes this past Tuesday. I believe there are a couple of more students that will be registering at our Internet High School. See pictures of the KiHS classroom and the group photo of students here.

The Keewaytinook Internet High School is putting on a new face this coming school year. This year there will be thirteen KiHS classrooms located in First Nations across the north (http://kihs.knet.ca/classrooms.html) The teaching staff of KiHS (http://kihs.knet.ca/staff) met in KO's Balmertown office last week to receive their orientation session before flying off to their respective communities. Last week, the First Nation classrooms were being set up by the Classroom Assistants who met the week before in Balmertown for their training session. Last school year, KiHS used WebCT as our on-line e-learning environment but we struggled with the learning curve for both the teachers and students. As well, the price for WebCT was just getting too high for our small school. So this past winter the decision was made to create our own e-learning environment. Margaret Fiddler lead the crew of two (Jesse Fiddler and Steven Zussino) in building this on-line open source e-learning space which can be seen at http://kihs.knet.ca (just write to get access to the guest account to see the various on-line tools being used). This new e-learning environment will be of interest to any teacher involved in teaching any high school course through distance education. It would be great if other groups in the region wanted to take this tool and adapt it for their own use. We are inviting other educators to identify ways that we can work together to share in this new resource.