European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 01, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes monday May 1,1989 education news Hunt for buried possessions lets kids dig into schoolwork b Joseph Owen Stuttgart Bureau Kiesel Bronn. West Germany of no no another  10-year-old Courtney Young shouted pained to think of his favorite Teddy Bear spending week in the dirt with Slimy creatures slithering Over it. Courtney had just finished burying his Bear and was helping a schoolmate at Kicic Labronn elementary place another prize Possession in the ground. He put the Spade aside and peered into the Small Hole he was digging in the front Lawn of the school near Pforzheim where he attends fifth Grade. The Hole was t Dee enough yet. He set the tip of the Spade Back into the Hole and jumped on it trying to loosen the stubborn soil. Kick Courtney kick like the Charleston said class mate and self appointed digging coach Cornelius nails finally the Hole was just right for Marin Gallegos 9, tout his plastic Rock lord he Man toy into the ground. That s the Only thing i had that was Good Marin explained. I had it since it was in the Stales and i like  other students made similar sacrifices All in Trust that their riches would be found during a treasure Hunt a week later. Cornelius was hoping he would t lose his marbles he had just buried 300 of them. Elizabcth Molina 11. Concealed her ring and a German one Mark Coin in the dirt. Second grader Lisa Haynes 7, bravely packed a favorite spoon into the soil. The students had wrapped their Booty in plastic with a note before burying it. The note described the student and explained Why the accompanying object was the personal treasure of the person who buried it teacher Walt Fritz said. Each child also Drew a trea sure map of the schoolyard using measured distances to show precisely where the object was buried. One week after the Kicic Labronn children hid their trea sures a bus pulled up in front of the school and Dis charged a Gaggle of Ger Bersheim elementary  were the detectives assigned to find the hidden objects including the Teddy Bear without which Courtney had somehow managed to survive the entire week. After Reading the accompanying essays  students also had to guess the owners of the once buried Booty making this exotic version of hide and seek an exercise in everything from composition to cartography and More. Fritz a teacher of talented and gifted students said he first heard of the treasure Hunt exercise at a Confer ence in the United states. He said he passed the idea on to other department of defense dependent schools colleagues in Europe earlier this year and some of them Are staging treasure Hunts with their students. The Germer Shim students faced two unexpected challenges. First an unfinished landscaping project had left the topsoil More disorganized than a drawer full of Odd socks. It was useless to regard piles of freshly turned dirt As clues they were everywhere. Sec Ond it was raining. Using the maps the Ger Bersheim students found most of Fth missing items within minutes. But a few of them weren t so Lucky. While Cosima Mendoza shielded her with an umbrella cd Richello Balan 8, hacked at the ground for 10 is Joseph Owen Lisa Haynes 7, digs a Hole fur her favorite spoon. Minutes with a hoc before realizing she was digging 15feet from where her map had told her to dig. And Lone after other searchers had gone inside tracking mud through the Halls in search of punch and cookies sixth grader Marisa Bandyl. 12, was still poking through the grass on a Hillside trying to find the spot where Elize Beth had buried her tiny ring and  dug Over there and we dug up there too Marisa said exasperated. Shi looked up at the unforgiving sky which continued to spit fat drops of rain and said. We would pick this Day to do  but she eventually recovered the ring and the Coin. Inside the Ger Bersheim students read the essay Sand tried to guess which of the Kiesch Labronn students had written them. Sixth grader Brian Boles grinned a someone read his essay about a Pencil Holder a teacher had Given him. When i look at it and keep looking. 1 can Sec my next Grade. If 1 could change it i would get a yellow one to where i could see beyond my next  head written adding later that because of his haircut my friends think i am funny and  did we learn from this asked Fritz after Brian s identity was revealed. A voice piped up from somewhere not to put you name on  Dodds Roundup semifinalists announced by scholars program Washington three seniors who Atten Atlantic Region High schools and two who at tend Germany Region High schools were  m the department of education s annual presidential scholars program. Elizabeth Fargey and Tiffany Madden of la Ken Heath High school and Robert Holmes of accent High school Are the Atlantic . Ben Meyer of Heidelberg High school and Robert Skidmore of Frankfurt High school Arete Germany Region s representatives. Students will compete in makeup festival Friday Wiesbaden West Germany fifteen Stu dents from six High schools arc expected to com Pete Friday in the Germany Region s fourth an Nual cosmetology hairstyling and makeup festival at the Wurzburg officers sub. Three categories of Competition open Cut style and Day to evening will comprise the hairstyling portion of the festival. Students also will compete in makeup events which will in clude daytime evening and fantasy categories. The Public is invited to the festival which begins at 10 . Mark Carstons at 06121-88281 has More information. Public invited to attend Heidelberg business fair Heidelberg West Germany More than240 students from nine Middle and Junior High schools arc expected to participate in the Busi Ness Enterprise student Trade fair at the Hei Delberg officers club May 10. The students Are scheduled to attend workshops focusing on marketing and careers in business. They also will sell products such a note pads plants wine Racks and Book bags with shares of the proceeds distributed to the students. The Public is invited to the fair which begin sat 10 . Sylvia Rausch at 06221-762449 has More information. Special education students to display artwork Friday Nurnberg West Germany an Art show featuring works by special education students enrolled in 19 a Furnberg District schools will Beon display Friday at Nurnberg High school from 10a.m. To 1 . The show will Mark the third year that the school s National Junior Honor society has organized the event. Students who spend 30 percent or More of their time in special education classes Are Eligi ble to display their Art. Call Emily Gurdine at0911-7007055 for More information. Computers will be music to students ears by Dave  writer Wiesbaden West Germany High school students in Germany who can t sing or dance can strike up the band next fall thanks to the Purchase of More than $140,000 in computer equip ment. The equipment will allow student with even the sketch est musical Back grounds to write their own songs an near them played by a simulated orches tra or band. Bob Benson music coordinator for Germany Region schools said the equip ment will allow students to compose music without studying the traditional Means to do it. The emphasis is on creativity rather than Silling and playing an instrument for  vowing that Germany schools would be the Leader in this program Benson said that All 28 High schools in German would have the equipment in place by mid May and that music teachers would be trained to offer the computer music course by fall. None of the other four regions in the overseas school system has moved to Start a computer music program he said. Benson is a longtime advocate of com Puter music instruction. He introduced computer music into the overseas school system in 1978 while leaching music at Bonn High school. The whole music Industry is going to computerized music he said. Today almost 100 percent of the music produced in audio recordings television Andin movie soundtracks is done Electron  the computer course concept stemmed from a 1985 Survey asking school system juniors what music courses they would prefer. Compute music lopped the list. High school students Are required Tofu fill a one semester requirement for Fine arts that can include Art humanities drama or music. But Many of the overseas High schools especially the smaller ones Don t offer humanities or drama. Benson said the decision to add a computer music course was spurred by his visits to schools. I found. That the Counselor were putting kids int chorus As the dumping ground so that the kids can get the Fine arts credit he said. That s not the purpose of  in april Benson and five music teach ers devised the computer music curriculum which Calls for teaching Basic music skills such As Harmony Melody and son composition. Students then will create their own songs instructing the computer to use various instruments As part of the com position. The computer program will provide printed version of the song As Well As actually play it on a digital piano or through a synthesizer that can produce up to eight different sounds simultaneously. The computer course also will Intro Duce students to a variety of music including jazz and blues As Well As Classi Cal. They will be required to write at Lea Stone blues song apiece which will face critiques by other students