Scholarship Deadline Approaching:
Attention all seniors, do not miss the deadline to apply for MEF (McKinney Education Foundation) scholarships for 2012! Applications are due on February 13th and scholarships will be awarded in May. The Boyd library supports MEF by offering a scholarship on behalf of the MISD Library Media Staff . .write a brief essay about a  favorite library memory or interesting book that you read and how it influenced your life in a positive way. Details can be found at the Boyd library or on this website

Wednesday night at Boyd, we had what we hope to be a very popular new activity being shared with our students…HBO regular Lamont Carey visited the Boyd library for a workshop on how to perform at a poetry slam. He spent time with students from 6th grade to seniors, sharing his love of writing and helping the group to write their own slams. They spent about an hour in the library, creating and learning to perform their deeply personal poems with each other while Lamont led them through the process. Later in the evening, Lamont, the students and all spectators headed down to the auditorium for a live slam. Lamont performed some of his award winning slams from HBO and Def Jams. He built a show around his 4 performances by featuring some of the students from the workshop. The kids wrote, practiced and “slammed” their poetry with all the polish of a professional. The works that they performed were raw, truthful, eloquent, rhythmic and moving. The workshop was a prelude to the actual event to take place in April. Watch for the date to be announced and plan to attend this unique performance.

This past Friday night was a proud night for those of us in the Boyd library. The top talent around the campus competed in the “Boyd’s Got Talent” show for their parents and peers. It just so happens that a good majority of the performers have performed at our Friday “Unplugged” concert series. Watching the performances that evening was watching our own children. The talent was exceptional and at the end of the show, the audience was asked to vote for their favorite. I could not vote! It would be like choosing one child over the other! I happily gave my ticket stub to a friend for her to add an extra vote to the voting buckets.  Most of these kids have enough talent to make a career out of doing what they love. They are all winners and we are lucky enough to get to watch most of them perform in the library on Friday mornings before school!

Have you been meaning to commit to a New Year’s Resolution but just haven’t done it yet? We know just how you feel! Come visit and we can get you started. With online resource ideas and books on health and fitness, you will be on your way to a new you for 2012.