Students from across the Sycamore School District presented projects and were recognized during Tuesday’s meeting, ranging from elementary model-building to high-school apps and international outreach.

Fifth graders from the E. H. Green Intermediate red team described a class project that produced five scale replicas of the Titanic and several students explained the mathematical proportional reasoning used to construct the models. Students noted details including wiring that represented Marconi operators and accurately scaled windows and funnels.

Sycamore High School presented a large set of student recognitions. The district reported annual success on the Ohio Seal of Biliteracy: the presenter read a year-by-year count in which Sycamore placed in the state’s top five since the seal’s 2018 inception (2018: 26; 2019: 59; 2020: 16; 2021: 68; 2022: 52; 2023: 44; 2024–25: data not yet available). Teachers and administrators invited dozens of students to the dais to be recognized for earning state seals in languages including Korean, Russian, Chinese, French and Spanish.

Sycamore High seniors and staff also described a student-led Cars & Coffee event scheduled for Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The student organizer, Parker, told the board the goal is “50 plus cars” and to raise $5,000 for the Dragonfly Foundation through sponsorships, shirt sales and on-site donations; staff said sponsorships had already raised $3,850.

Other student work honored included a peer-developed program that uses Nintendo Wii systems to deliver physical-activity programs to students with intellectual disabilities in schools in India; presenters said the program now runs in six schools and has reached about 750 children and that the students were invited to speak at the United Nations about their work. Students also described software projects: a Sycamore team’s app for special-education alphabet learning was selected to represent the district in the Congressional App Challenge, and a student team presented “ScholarSeek AI,” an AI-driven scholarship-search chatbot that scouts and updates local scholarship opportunities.

Administrators and trustees praised the students’ work and thanked teachers and families. Meredith Blackmore, who introduced the Seal of Biliteracy candidates, and Mr. Hahn, the high-school engineering teacher, were named during the presentations.

Ending

Trustees congratulated students and encouraged community members to attend the Cars & Coffee fundraiser and other student exhibitions. Several board members commended the district’s world-language and STEM programs for sustained student achievement.