Congratulations to the JATC Web Development Program, the amazing students, and their teacher Melinda Mansouri. The program is a State finalist in the prestigious Samsung Solve for Tomorrow competition and is now in the running to win up to $100,000 in prizes.

Each year, Samsung hosts a $2 million national competition for public schools, grades 6–12, where students are asked to consider how science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) can be used to create change in their communities. Not only can students apply to the contest and compete to win up to $100,000 in prizes for their school, they have the opportunity to work with Samsung employees to develop their prototypes.

As part of the competition, the JATC students are developing an app, which they hope can help improve student safety at school, focusing on disaster protocol, and enhancing the safety and execution of disaster response. The app would help to locate students in the school building in case of an emergency.

Team Leaders for JATC’s Web Development Program are Aiden Maher and Jacob Crook, along with team members Lan-Vi Cao, Amanda Bueno Leiva, Jaxon Smith, and Dalton Britton.

Best of luck in the competition and on your amazing work in the classroom!

Jordan School District schools are feeling the love from LiveDAYBREAK this holiday season. Dan Rodgerson and Jenny Nigbur with LiveDAYBREAK recently met with the Jordan Education Foundation to present a check for $50,000.00.

The generous donation will be used to support Christmas for Kids and school needs at Mountain Creek Middle School, Golden Fields Elementary School, Aspen Elementary School, Eastlake Elementary School, and Herriman High School.

We want to thank everyone at LiveDAYBREAK for their kindness and generous support of students and education in Jordan School District.

Boxes of cereal lined every single hallway at Eastlake Elementary School after students completed a really successful cereal drive to benefit the Utah Food Bank. The students were all in on the project and managed to collect 1176 boxes of cereal, that is 2,500 pounds worth of cereal!

As a prize for completing such a successful holiday drive, the cereal boxes were lined up in every hallway, upstairs and downstairs throughout the school. Then students watched as Principal Kristie Howe toppled one box in the lineup, starting a domino effect of falling boxes through the entire school. Students were thrilled and cheered as one-by-one the boxes fell like dominos.

Congratulations Eastlake Elementary for your giving spirit this holiday season.

The totals are in and once again students throughout Jordan School District have gone above and beyond to benefit local charities this holiday season.

Thank you to all the students and staff who devoted long hours to this charitable work, you truly are an inspiration!

Here is a list of the charities for each high school and fundraising totals.

• Bingham High School – $63,686.60
  Make-A-Wish Utah Angels Hands
• Copper Hills High School – $70,000.23
  Make-A-Wish Utah and Other Needs in their Community
• Mountain Ridge High School – $89,107.74
  Hearts Knit Together
• Riverton High School – $262,229.22
  Utah Children’s Justice Center
• West Jordan High School – $30,868.00
  Tiny Tim’s Foundation for Kids
• Herriman High School – $130,351.00
  Now I Can Foundation
• GRAND TOTAL: $646,242.79

Congratulations and thanks to everyone involved for their generosity!