Wed 5/17/2006 6:06 PM

Congratulations Hammerheads of Lego-Lantis! You have put forth tremendous effort and research to implement your rain garden and produce the skit I viewed at lunch today. It is very refreshing to experience your generation taking action to inform, educate and improve the environment and with such creativity! Here is a link to another program in the Cincinnati area that is working to improve the Millcreek.

Please keep up the great work. I know that you will place at the top in the Nationals!

Have a great rest of the academic year and a fantastic summer! 

Teresa C. Turnbow, CHMM Environmental, Health, & Safety Patheon Inc.

Thu 1/12/2006 4:51 PM

Hammerheads,

A sincere congratulations to you all for the Gracious Professionalism Trophy, your State Bid from the I-Space Cincinnati Regional, and the perseverance it takes to prepare for and FLL tournament. Your achievements and website are evidence of your hard work.

Funny isn't it, that out of the 46 teams at the competition, the two teams who took a field trip to the Metropolitan Sewer Distict shared the same table in the pit area.

Good Luck at the State tournament!

Mrs. Bolte

Coach of Pirates of the Ridge and

Great project! Hope you will learn AND educate others at the same time! I grew up during a time when the Mill Creek would occasionally catch fire! It has come a long way, but has much yet to go.

Joe Uecker

State Representative
district66@ohr.state.oh.us

I would personaly like to thank you all. Because of all you, we are moving on to the state competition, and again, I would like to thank you all.

Ben,

Thank -you for all of your comments but we need more so please tell family and friends to comment

Thank You

Hammer Heads

P.S. We're going to state all because of you guys thanks.

The website seems to be very advanced in content for a group of sixth graders. It seems as if they have put a lot of time, effort, and research into the website and their mission. Good Luck!

Thu 12/1/2005 8:59 AM

Your team has conducted a lot of research in order to produce a skit of the quality with which it was performed. Team members are genuinely energetic and interested in the impact the Mill Creek has on their world -- local & global. I enjoyed the skit, learned about the Rain Gardens and even think there are some future actors in the group as well!!! Good luck with the team competition and keep an interest in your environment.

Ms. Laurie Fite

Patheon Pharmaceuticals (one of your practice judges)

Reading, OH

Thu 12/1/2005 8:48 AM

Your website is quite impressive! I had the privilege of previewing your skit yesterday afternoon, and I was awed by your commitment, and by your brilliant creativity.

I have already shared the information with colleagues, friends, and family, and will be sending them the link to your website. I look forward to more information about how to plant my own rain garden. (Will you be adding that link soon?)

Also, have you considered adding the team members' names under the photo on the page which features the team?

I am proud to work in a community with such forward-thinking youth.

Donna K. Barnes

Patheon Pharmaceuticals

Reading, Ohio

Donna.Barnes@Patheon.com

Some answers:  

1)  Thank you for your comments.

2)  There are links to several websites about rain gardens in our links section.  One has a quite detailed plan for creating one.  

Mon 11/28/2005 2:53 PM

The skit you presented to the sixth grade was very informational. You obviously spent a great amount of time researching and learning about the Mill Creek. I learned so much about what has caused the deterioration of the Mill Creek over time and what can possibly be done to correct the situation. Good luck with your project and keep me informed of your progress.

J. Gilligan

6th Grade Teacher

Reading Hilltop

Tue 11/22/2005 9:41 AM

Great idea and Good Luck! I work with Reading on their storm water program and other related services. The City of Reading is very interested in the health of the Mill Creek. We can certainly be a resource for you to help with your project goals and provide opportunities for involvement in local storm water issues.

Thanks for your interest and enthusiasm. I look forward to the Rain Garden.

Sandy Camargo

Environmental Engineer

City of Reading/CDP Engineers

Wed 11/16/2005 2:34 PM

Dear Hammerheads,

I applaud your efforts to reduce water consumption and recycle rain water, thereby lessening the load on the stressed combined sewer system in Hamilton County. This helps reduce overflow situations which send our pollution to communities downstream. Remember that most of the water you will drink in your lifetime will come from the Ohio River, and that our drinking water is affected by pollutants and sewage discharged upstream from Cincinnati. The cleaner the river, the safer our drinking water will be and the less treatment it will require. We should attempt to treat our neighbors downstream as we would like our upstream neighbors to treat us, by minimizing and eventually eliminating untreated sewage discharges. This could happen within your lifetimes, if enough members of your generation care to pursue it. Your project is a good start toward that goal.

Kevin Reynolds

Chemist

Greater Cincinnati Water Works

Hammerheads,

I like you site. You are working on some very important aspects of our community, Evendale. The Mill Creek runs right through the center of Evendale and not too many years ago it was utilized as a great resource to the community. If you need anything from the Village of Evendale I would be happy to work with you to provide you what we can.

Keep up the good work.

Jack Cameron

Village of Evendale

Administrative Assistant to the Mayor

Greetings to the Hill Top Hammerheads team!

What a great website! I am very pleased that you have selected the Mill Creek as the focus of your project this year. Our organization, the Mill Creek Watershed Council of Communities, is always pleased to have people like you involved in improving our waterways. I think your project will make more people aware of the Mill Creek and what they can do to help.

I am also pleased that you will be installing a rain garden next spring to capture runoff from the school rooftop before it reaches the storm drains. If everyone did the same thing, we would have fewer pollutants in our streams.

Keep up the good work and good luck in the competition.

Nancy Ellwood

Executive Director

Mill Creek Watershed Council of Communities

Hilltop Hammerheads,

Great job with your web-site. I was very informed! I am so proud that you have picked something locally to investigate and inform us about.

Keep up the great work and we are all very proud of you!

Hammerheads of LEGO-lantis,

Wow!!! What a great website, great name, great logo and an absolutely amazing mission statement. You are demonstrating some pretty impressive skills in areas far beyond robotics. Your project is right on target and your plan to put it into action is truly admirable.

iSPACE is very proud to have you as competitors in our FLL tournament. You represent everything good about this project.

My very best wishes for a successful competition.

Linda Neenan

Executive Director, iSPACE

Thursday, October 27, 2005 2:56 PM

Hello Hammerheads of LEGO-lantis!

I love the website you have created to highlight your FLL team's work. I especially am impressed that you have created a Mission Statement for your team this year. That effort, in and of itself, indicates that you are aware of what is expected in the "work world" of adults. You are demonstrating skills that employers would find admirable and also indicates that you take your work seriously, which can be defined as work ethic for your group. Keep up the excellent work. If you do not even take home a trophy, you should be proud of what you already have accomplished - let alone ALL that you will have accomplished by the time the FLL season is over. I wish you the best in your efforts. No matter how your team fares at the competition, your team will be tops with me on a level that far exceeds winning a trophy. I think you've won "big time" just from what I see here and from the praises of your coach, Mrs. St. Cyr.

See you soon.