Parents of children who will be new students at District 54 schools can register this summer at the District 54 Office, 524 E. Schaumburg Road in Schaumburg.

Registration will be held from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Thursdays from July 6 to August 4. We will be closed on Mondays and Fridays. In addition the District Office will be open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from August 9 to 17.

Parents will need to provide a child’s original birth certificate, passport or visa; proof of residency and a few other documents. Please see our registration website for more information: http://sd54.org/registration.

Parents are also required to pay a consumable materials fee at registration to cover the cost of workbooks, paper, art supplies and other items used by students. Our consumable materials fees are $50 for all students from early childhood through junior high school for the 2011-12 school year.  Fees for students in the parent-paid preschool program are included in the tuition costs.

A late fee of $15 will be imposed on any payments received after Nov. 15. The late fee will be increased to $25 if no payment is made by Feb. 1 and to $35 if no payment is made by April 1. Children who qualify for the free lunch program will not be charged this fee.

Parents will also be asked to supply the phone numbers of people to be contacted in emergencies (other family members, neighbors and work phone numbers). Parents can also pay for their children’s transportation at this time (Transportation Department will be available during day hours only).

Parents can also register their children at their neighborhood school starting on August 11, 2011.

For more information, call the District 54 summer registration office at (847) 357-5103 for information.

The National Energy Education Development (NEED) Project Board of Directors named the Hoover Math and Science Academy the Illinois Elementary Level School of the Year and invited representative from the school to recognition ceremonies June 24-27 in Washington, D.C.

All NEED schools have outstanding classroom-based programs in which students learn about energy. This program combines academic competition with recognition to recognize those who achieve excellence in energy education in their schools and communities. The students and teachers set goals and objectives, and keep a record of their activities. In April, the students combine their materials into scrapbooks and send them to their state coordinators. The students themselves write summaries of their projects for inclusion in the Annual Report.

Hoover was chosen for “The Energy Zoo” an energy education project organized by advisers Karen White and Gloria Cole. White and Cole run the SHARE program, which stands for Students at Hoover Acting Responsibly for the Earth, its Environment and its Energy.

The students in the program created bulletin boards with a conservation and zoo theme. The bulletin boards featured items such as Penny Panda pondering plastic and Walter Walrus wondering about water.

SHARE also organized a week’s worth of energy education. The week included Make-a-Choice Monday (count plastic bags littering the school), Take-a-Hike Tuesday (earn energy coupons for the SHARE store), Waste-Free Wednesday, Think-Hard Thursday (Are You Smarter than a S.H.A.R.E. Kid? and Energy Bingo) and Freshen-up Friday (bring in plastic bags to recycle, buy a reusable bag or water bottle, clean up all your environments).

The School Board has set Monday, June 6 as the graduation dates for District 54 eighth-grade students.

Eisenhower Junior High School will graduate at 6 p.m. in the Hoffman Estates High School gym on Higgins Road in Hoffman Estates. Lincoln Prairie School will graduate at 8 p.m. from the auditorium at the same high school.

Frost Junior High School will graduate at 6 p.m. at Conant High School on Plum Grove Road in Hoffman Estates, followed by Mead Junior High School at 8:30 p.m.

Addams Junior High School will graduate at 6 p.m. at Schaumburg High School on Schaumburg Road in Schaumburg followed by Keller Junior High School at 8:30 p.m.

Other students will attend school until Tuesday, June 7. On June 7, all elementary students will attend school from 8:40 to 10:40 a.m. Junior high students will attend school from 7:40 to 9:40 a.m. that day. Lincoln Prairie will attend school from 9:15 to 11:15 a.m. There are no early childhood or kindergarten classes on June 7.