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Held each May, Wellness Week is a districtwide, week-long event that focuses on promoting mental health and wellness for students and families. Themed days are promoted on social media; there are online activities, and the week usually culminates with a districtwide Family Fitness Fun Day.

Held each Spring, starting in February, students are invited to put on their thinking caps and become real inventors. Students are asked to think of a problem in their lives - or that of their family/friends, that needs solving, and then design a solution to this problem. Students will create and test various solutions, keep an inventor’s log of the process, and then present a prototype. Students are invited to compete at the local, regional, national, and potentially international competitions through Spring and Summer. 

¶®É«µÛ Unified offers both school and a district bike rodeo. School winners are invited to progress to an annual district-wide Bike Rodeo sponsored by the ¶®É«µÛ Firefighter’s Association in partnership with the ¶®É«µÛ Council of PTAs. The event is held each year in May and challenges student finalists in the 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades with six skills tests and a written test to demonstrate their safe bike-riding techniques to prepare them for riding to and from school. 

For the past several years (except for a break during COVID-19) we have invited students to participate in a CombatBot battle usually held in May and sponsored by ¶®É«µÛ Education Foundation. Students in grades Kindergarten through 12th are invited to form teams and create a remote-controlled battle bot (robot) designed to pop one of two small balloons affixed to the opponent’s robot. The teams square off in heated one-on-one battles toward a bracket-style championship until a winner is declared.