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Smithtown Wins 3 Model Schools Awards From Suffolk BOCES

Smithtown received three out of five awards this year from the Western Suffolk BOCES Model Schools awards.

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Fourth graders at Tackan Elementary School in the Smithtown Central School District work on a STEM activity during their library class, one of three winning submissions by the district in the Western Suffolk BOCES Model Schools awards.
Fourth graders at Tackan Elementary School in the Smithtown Central School District work on a STEM activity during their library class, one of three winning submissions by the district in the Western Suffolk BOCES Model Schools awards. (Courtesy: Smithtown Central School District)

SMITHTOWN, NY — The Smithtown Central School District won three Western Suffolk BOCESModel Schools awards, according to a news release. Smithtown received three of five awards this year out of the 18 districts that make up Western Suffolk BOCES.

The district congratulated its winners:

  • Sheila Cavooris, Michaela Riviello and Deanna Jakubowsky from Great Hollow Middle School (The Roaring Twenties: A Unit Redesigned to Reconnect to a Hybrid World, eighth-grade social studies)
  • Michelle Robinson, Tackan Elementary School (Reindeer Games: Connecting Picture Books and STEM, fourth-grade library)
  • Rita Damato and Michelle Manning, Great Hollow Middle School (Ancient Egypt Escape Room, sixth-grade social studies).

For each of the three awards, Western Suffolk BOCES will provide $1,000 to be used for the school and/or classroom.

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