Second grade students were honored and thrilled to have members of the Maple Mountain High School girls basketball team visit their classrooms.  The basketball players were able to interact with the students by working with them, or reading to them.

To motivate and educate students about coding, representatives from Inside Sales visited Maple Ridge on Tuesday, and worked with small groups of students to teach them some of the basics of coding.

4th, 5th, and 6th grade students enjoyed an afternoon with coders from Inside Sales.  Students were able to learn the basics of coding and even were able to write "Go, Maple Ridge!" in code.

Dave Elkington, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Inside Sales, visited Maple Ridge Elementary along with Tema Laussen and other representatives from the company.  They came to talk to the students about coding, and participating in the "Hour of Code" program.  The Hour of Code is a one-hour introduction to computer science, designed to demystify code and show that anybody can learn the basics.

Last week, the first session of the robotics program ended.  To celebrate the occasion, parents were invited to come in and see what the students accomplished throughout the class.

Guidelines from the Health Department to help make decision to keep all of our students as healthy as possible during cold and flu season.

On Tuesday, November 24th, students and faculty members were able to witness what will surely be an annual tradition, the first official Maple Ridge Gobble Off.  A panel of esteemed judges were selected to listen to each classroom representative give his/her best rendition of a turkey gobble.  The top winners were gifted with a variety of prizes from actual turkeys, to hats with a Thanksgiving twist.

Maple Ridge students in grades three through six were able to attend the BYU Women's basketball game against the Utah State Aggies on November 24th.

Scott Savage, a prominent Utah author, visited students in the upper grades on November 23rd.

Since we are CRAZY ABOUT READING, on November 23rd, everyone at Maple Ridge had the choice of whether or not to style their hair in a crazy way.