<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>PacRegionNews</title><link>http://hqcomspota1.hq.ds.dodea.edu/</link><description>Pacific Newsroom</description><lastBuildDate>Sun, 26 May 2013 03:10:28 +0000</lastBuildDate><generator>CommonSpot Content Server</generator><copyright/><item><title>Register for Sure Start!</title><description>Discover all the details about Sure Start at OAES.</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dodea.edu</guid><link>http://dodea.edu</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>National History Day Spotlights 21st Century Learning Skills</title><description>Students representing the district’s three middle and two high schools presented a broad range of turning points in history at the Camp Foster Community Center on April 26</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dodea.edu</guid><link>http://dodea.edu</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>New School Under Construction!</title><description>Humphreys High School is currently under construction and the new school will be joining DoDEA Korea in the future.
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The cost for the cookbook is $10.00 and proceeds will go the Chaplain office for needy families.</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dodea.edu</guid><link>http://dodea.edu</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>DAC Meeting</title><description>The district held a peninsula wide District Advisory Council meeting on April 18, 2013.</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dodea.edu</guid><link>http://dodea.edu</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>USAG Humphrey's Tour of Duty Video</title><description/><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dodea.edu</guid><link>http://dodea.edu</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Noncombatant Evacuation Operations (NEO) Practice</title><description/><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dodea.edu</guid><link>http://dodea.edu</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Counting to meet culture at upcoming soroban competitions</title><description>Approximately 80 students from Japanese schools located in Kanagawa Prefecture will participate alongside 90 DoDEA students from Arnn Elementary School, Byrd ES, Ikego ES, Lanham ES and The Sullivans ES.</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dodea.edu</guid><link>http://dodea.edu</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>1 to 1 Laptop Initiative Status Report</title><description>Click the attachment to read the current status of laptops at SAHS.</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dodea.edu</guid><link>http://dodea.edu</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Military Volunteers Score the 2013 Black History Contest Entries</title><description>Military Volunteers rock at Kadena Elementary School!</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dodea.edu</guid><link>http://dodea.edu</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>A Letter About Sequestration and the DoDDS-Korea Schools</title><description>A letter from Superintendent Dr. Irby Miller in regards to the DoDDS-K schools and Sequestration.</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dodea.edu</guid><link>http://dodea.edu</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Closure of Current Camp Humphreys Elementary School</title><description>A letter from Superintendent Dr. Irby Miller to the parents of Humphreys Elementary school regarding the school closure in June of 2013.</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dodea.edu</guid><link>http://dodea.edu</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Singer returns to S. Korea to perform for DODDS students</title><description>As he prepared to perform for more than 100 Daegu High School students, singer-songwriter Wesley Cook admitted that coming home wasn’t quite as easy as he had expected.</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dodea.edu</guid><link>http://dodea.edu</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>MEMS holds anti-bullying assembly</title><description>Anti-bullying</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dodea.edu</guid><link>http://dodea.edu</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Okinawan-American Friendship Basketball Tournament Draws Hundreds</title><description>Hundreds of student-athletes, families, coaches, educators and spectators filled Risner Gym for the 7th Annual Okinawan-American Friendship Basketball Tournament January 26 and 27.</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dodea.edu</guid><link>http://dodea.edu</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Pacific High School Sports</title><description>Pacific High School Sports</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dodea.edu</guid><link>http://dodea.edu</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Mr. Chang Yu Selected as Principal of Daegu American Elementary</title><description>Mr. Chang Yu selected as new principal of Daegu American School.</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dodea.edu</guid><link>http://dodea.edu</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Sailors, Students help environment one tree at a time</title><description>Stem</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dodea.edu</guid><link>http://dodea.edu</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Schools Closed for Area 2 - Dec. 5 2012</title><description/><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dodea.edu</guid><link>http://dodea.edu</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>New Field Upgrades</title><description>Field Upgrade</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dodea.edu</guid><link>http://dodea.edu</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Solar Energy Shines at The Sullivans School</title><description>Yokosuka’s energy team teaches Sullivans students</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dodea.edu</guid><link>http://dodea.edu</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Panthers claim both titles</title><description>The Guam High Panthers were crowned the Independent Interscholastic Athletic Association of Guam Cross-Country League champions.</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dodea.edu</guid><link>http://dodea.edu</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2012 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>The Japan District Superintendent’s Office announces selection of new Assistant Principal for Yokosuka Middle School.</title><description>The Japan District Superintendent’s Office is pleased to announce the selection of Ms. Rachel Geesa as the new Assistant Principal of Yokosuka Middle School in Yokosuka, Japan.</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dodea.edu</guid><link>http://dodea.edu</link><pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2012 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>DoDEA Okinawa District Welcomes New Assistant Superintendent</title><description>Department of Defense Education Activity Okinawa District Superintendent Mr. Michael Thompson is pleased to welcome Mr. Michael L. Johnson as Assistant Superintendent beginning in November 2012.</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dodea.edu</guid><link>http://dodea.edu</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2012 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Yokota Cadets High Flyin’</title><description>Two Yokota HS students took to the skies recently behind the controls of a Cessna 172. The students are part of the new JROTC Cadet FlightSimulator Instructor (CFI) program at Yokota High School, a first-of-its kind program in Air Force JROTC.</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dodea.edu</guid><link>http://dodea.edu</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Devils hope improved line, bonding at Fuji lead to turnaround</title><description>Coaching staff plan a week long retreat to Mount Fuji to try and turn things around for their football team.</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dodea.edu</guid><link>http://dodea.edu</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2012 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Football returns! Samurai share M.C. Perry field, Japanese team comes aboard station</title><description>For the first time since 2004, the Matthew C. Perry High School Samurai football team suited up in pads, jerseys and helmets. 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For those with children, transitioning smoothly into new schools is a top priority.</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dodea.edu</guid><link>http://dodea.edu</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2012 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Exchange to provide school meals that meet tough new nutrition standards</title><description>As students return to class this fall on bases in Okinawa, mainland Japan and Korea, they will find new healthy choices in their school cafeterias with meals provided by the Army &amp; Air Force Exchange Service.</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dodea.edu</guid><link>http://dodea.edu</link><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2012 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>One athlete overcomes adversity.</title><description>Adversity is something everyone will face, and a subject high school coaches teach about as much as possible.  Meet a recent graduate of Daegu High School, who has overcome adversity all the way to a college scholarship.</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dodea.edu</guid><link>http://dodea.edu</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>SAHS Graduation</title><description>Seniors from Seoul American High School walked along 8th Army Drive for their final action together as a class. They then moved on to their High School Graduation held at the Collier Community Fitness Center.</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dodea.edu</guid><link>http://dodea.edu</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2012 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>DODEA ramping up effort to fix dilapidated schools</title><description>The Department of Defense Education Activity plans to massively ramp up construction efforts in order to meet its goal of replacing 134 severely aging schools — 78 percent of its facilities around the world — before the end of the decade.</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dodea.edu</guid><link>http://dodea.edu</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2012 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Field Day for students of Seoul American Elementary School.</title><description>Students of the Seoul American Elementary School participated in Field Day activities, to celebrate the beginning of summer, and the end of the school year.</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dodea.edu</guid><link>http://dodea.edu</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Mrs. Pamela Anthony awarded the DoDEA History Teacher of the Year.</title><description>Every year the Department of Defense Education Activity “Teacher of the Year” honors educators that have made an exceptional difference in the lives of their students and provided inspiration to their peers.</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dodea.edu</guid><link>http://dodea.edu</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Sasebo students put math, science skills to the test aboard USS Germantown</title><description>It wasn’t a normal day in the classroom for 66 fifth- and sixth-graders from Sasebo Elementary, and Seaman Aldannuvia Dominguez of the USS Germantown wasn’t their normal teacher.</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dodea.edu</guid><link>http://dodea.edu</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Seven DoDEA Students Selected as Semi-Finalists in the 2012 National Merit Scholarship Program</title><description>Seven Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) students have been selected as Semi-finalists for the 2012 National Merit Scholarship Program (NMSP).</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dodea.edu</guid><link>http://dodea.edu</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>New DODEA facilities in Korea to ease crowding as school year kicks off</title><description>When base schools across the Pacific open Monday morning, two facilities aimed at easing overcrowding in South Korea will be among them: a new high school in Daegu and a new wing of an elementary school at Camp Casey.</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dodea.edu</guid><link>http://dodea.edu</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Winter Wonderland Celebration</title><description>Yokosuka Middle School was transformed into a winter wonderland, and families and sailors were invited to the celebraton. Over 600 guests had a unique opportunity to interact with school administrators, faculty, and staff.</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dodea.edu</guid><link>http://dodea.edu</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Alum Showcase Colleges</title><description>YOKOTA AIR BASE – Nearly 100 Yokota High School students and their parents had a chance to pay virtual visits to more than 30 college campuses on Nov. 3 during the third annual Share Your College Fair.</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dodea.edu</guid><link>http://dodea.edu</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Bridging Cultures</title><description>Musicians with the Japanese Air Self Defense Band play cultural music selections for children at Sollars Elementary on Misawa Air Base.</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dodea.edu</guid><link>http://dodea.edu</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Visit from Okinawa International School</title><description>On Tuesday 29 November, Kinser Elementary School hosted 55 students and 10 teachers, including the headmaster, from Okinawa International School.</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dodea.edu</guid><link>http://dodea.edu</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Annual Flag Folding Ceremony</title><description>The Sullivans School holds Annual flag Folding Ceremony.</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dodea.edu</guid><link>http://dodea.edu</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Officials Name New Education Activity Director</title><description>Long-time Defense Department civilian Marilee Fitzgerald will become the new Department of Defense Education Activity director, Pentagon officials announced today.</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dodea.edu</guid><link>http://dodea.edu</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Yokota Breaks Away from Kubasaki for Title</title><description>YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan – Scott Hanson and Phillip Burnett made the playoffs their personal showcase. As a result, Yokota finally brought home that elusive first Far East Division I football title.</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dodea.edu</guid><link>http://dodea.edu</link><pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>New Principal</title><description>Mrs. Daisy Weddle has been named principal at Jack N. 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Bullion has been selected as the new Curriculum Chief for the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA).</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dodea.edu</guid><link>http://dodea.edu</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Yokota, Kadena and Osan Junior ROTC programs lauded</title><description>The Air Force Junior ROTC headquarters recently awarded three Defense Department schools in the Pacific with top honors.</description><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dodea.edu</guid><link>http://dodea.edu</link><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item><item><title>DoDEA Students Honored in 2011 U.S. Presidential Scholars Program</title><description>A Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) senior, Tristan E. Fitch of Brussels High School in Brussels, Belgium has been named a 2011 U.S. Presidential Scholar. 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