Tokeneke School
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Tokeneke Elementary School is one of five elementary schools serving children in Kindergarten through fifth grade in Darien, Connecticut
, United States. It is a part of the Darien Public Schools system.
In May 2007, the "Kids Care Club" at the school raised more than $12,000 for the charity World Vision to build a bore well for clean water in the village of Makungwa, Zambia
. To raise the money, students found sponsors for a "Walk for Water" event in which they walked from Hindley School to Weed Beach, filled buckets with water and walked back to Hindley, simulating what millions of people must do to get water.
Student Thomas Denham in Betty Steuer's fifth-grade class was Connecticut's 2008 National Geographic Bee
champion, winning a globe, $100, some other prizes and an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington, D.C., for the national contest. Denham won the contest when asked what nation Tuscany was in (Italy). The previous year he placed second in the statewide bee. Previous Darien winners of the state contest were Liam McCarthy (in both 2005 and 2006), and Erik Mengwall (in 1989).
The school was first opened in September 1956.
built a replacement for the school. Students moved into the new school 65000 square feet (6,038.7 m²) school in January 2008. Originally built in 1957, the structure was replaced by a fully air-conditioned, technologically advanced school on the same site. The renovated school has "SmartBoard" presentation systems in classrooms and wireless Internet access throughout the building.
Darien, Connecticut
Darien is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. A relatively small community on Connecticut's "Gold Coast", the population was 20,732 at the 2010 census. Darien was listed at #9 at CNN Money's list of "top-earning towns" in the United States as of 2011...
, United States. It is a part of the Darien Public Schools system.
In May 2007, the "Kids Care Club" at the school raised more than $12,000 for the charity World Vision to build a bore well for clean water in the village of Makungwa, Zambia
Zambia
Zambia , officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. The neighbouring countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west....
. To raise the money, students found sponsors for a "Walk for Water" event in which they walked from Hindley School to Weed Beach, filled buckets with water and walked back to Hindley, simulating what millions of people must do to get water.
Student Thomas Denham in Betty Steuer's fifth-grade class was Connecticut's 2008 National Geographic Bee
National Geographic Bee
The National Geographic Bee is an annual geography contest sponsored by the National Geographic Society. The bee, held every year since 1989, is open to students in the fourth through eighth grade in participating American schools.The entities represented at the national level are all fifty U.S....
champion, winning a globe, $100, some other prizes and an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington, D.C., for the national contest. Denham won the contest when asked what nation Tuscany was in (Italy). The previous year he placed second in the statewide bee. Previous Darien winners of the state contest were Liam McCarthy (in both 2005 and 2006), and Erik Mengwall (in 1989).
The school was first opened in September 1956.
Current status of building
Starting in the spring of 2007, Turner ConstructionTurner Construction
Turner Construction Company is one of the largest construction management companies in the United States with a construction volume of $8 billion in 2010. It is a subsidiary of HOCHTIEF Germany.-The early years:...
built a replacement for the school. Students moved into the new school 65000 square feet (6,038.7 m²) school in January 2008. Originally built in 1957, the structure was replaced by a fully air-conditioned, technologically advanced school on the same site. The renovated school has "SmartBoard" presentation systems in classrooms and wireless Internet access throughout the building.