Friday, January 9, 2009

Grades and Awards

Sarah received her first report card this week. Her grades for all subjects were "PR" (for "proficient") - except for "Reading Level", for which her grade was "AB" (for above grade level). She's been reading books that are 2nd and 3rd grade level and above for sometime now. She reads so often she's earned the school rewards (for minutes per read week) in the reading club every month since the school year started.

David earned two separate awards at work this week. The first, from the Climate and Radiation Branch (the branch David is actually in), is a Special Act Award "for [his] generous contributions to various Branch activities, including the resolution of computer problems and the organization of Branch seminars". The second award, from the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, is an Outstanding Performance Award "for exceptional performance in the development of a multi-analysis data set and the validation and inter-comparison of GEOS-5, an outstanding contribution to the GEWEX/CEOP community".

2 comments:

Sharon B. said...

Wow! Quite a rewarding time for the Mockos! Congrats to Sarah and to David for their achievements. Was David's last trip to Europe related to the GEO-5 work?

Ali and David said...

Yes, David's trip to Geneva last September was related to the GEOS-5 work for CEOP.