Orville and Wilbur Wright first became interested in flight as boys when their father gave them a rubber-band-powered helicopter toy. And on a brisk winter’s day in 1903, the brothers became the first to pilot a heavier-than-air machine for a prolonged length of time. The pair crashed most of the planes they built, but they never gave up.

More than a century later, a small group of high-schoolers stand on a stage at the National 4-H Youth Conference Center just outside Washington DC. Kettering Fairmont High School’s FlyerBirds  team --made up of Troy Belshe, Phillip Gindelberger, Brian Hack and Abigail Riffle--  has just won the “Best All-Rookie Team” Merit Award at the National Real World Design Challenge.

Registrations are now being taken for 2013 Fairmont Summer Sports Camps. Visit the Fairmont Athletic Department's website at http://www.firebirdathletics.com/ for details about the different camps, as well as registration information.

Congratulations to the 2013 Inductees into the Chester A. Roush Educational Hall of Fame. Karl Bremer, Penni Meyer and Donna Runzo will be inducted into the Roush Hall of Fame on Tuesday, May 14th, at 7 p.m. in the Recital Hall at Kettering Fairmont High School. All are invited to help us celebrate the lives and work of these distinguished educators.

The Ohio Department of Health requires that all 7th-grade students have a Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis/whooping couch) vaccine prior to the start of the school year. This vaccine must be given after a child's 7th birthday. The Kettering Schools request that written documentation showing that a child has received the Tdap vaccine be turned in no late than Friday, May 10, 2013. Written documentation must be provided to the school nurse prior to the start of the 2013 school year for 7th-grade students, or the students will be excluded from school and school activities.

Don't wait! If your student is currently in the 6th grade, you are encouraged to make an appointment now with your doctor to have your student vaccinated for Tdap.