Collinsville Middle educate will p...

Collinsville Middle educate will participate in the Tech 2006 technology demonstration at the state capitol onward Feb. 16. Eighth-graders Lindsey Schobert and Kortney Walden will join teacher Kimberly Walters in demonstrating the use of computer textbook software and inter-write boards in mathematics education to members of the public and the state legislature in the Capitol Building Rotunda.

The issue is intended to showcase for lawmakers and the public the central character of technology in schools. Tech 2006 is a nonprofit initiative supported in part by the agency of Apple Computers, Dell, Learning.com, Riverdeep, Comcast and Cisco methods

U.S. Rep. John Shimkus has nominated 18 young men and women to the four military service academies for the academic year beginning this summer Shimkus, a West Point graduate, has nominated Anthony W Blankenberger of Carmi, Joseph Cacciottoli of Godfrey Scott M Haines of Troy Clifford E Hsiao of Collinsville, Carolyn R Koval