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We would like to invite you to be on our Lunch Time Leaders Podcast that we do as part of our Social Studies class at Moran Middle School in Wallingford, CT. We interview leaders in our community and beyond to talk about the challenges of being successfully prepared for the 21st Century. (Couple of Personal Sentences Here) We would like to do the interview on Month, Day, 2008 at Time(M/F11:30). The interviews are usually approximately 15 minutes long. The interview would require us to have us call you on your phone in order for our system to record it, do it with Skype if you have that capability, or doing it live in our school is also an option. You can view our website and see examples of our other interviews on our podcast website, http://lunchtimeleaders.podomatic.com A list of the questions that would be asked are below. (put list here) We look forward to hearing from you,

jason@zandri.net Want the town to have a better website has an example put up

What prompted you to campaign for a better website and put up your example? Why does the town need a website? How would the average citizen benefit from having an updated website? How would the town government benefit? (Wouldn't it make more work?) What other forms of technologies should out town be utilizing? What information would be a must-have for the website?

Walter M. Chesnut Principal W M CHESNUT GROUP 22 Saybrook Road Essex Center, VT 05451 (802) 264-9801 wmc@wmchesnut.com http://www.wmchesnut.com/

What prompted your decision to start your company? Briefly describe what WM Chestnut group does? What are your specific duties and responsibilities? Are websites a necessary tool for all businesses? How doe websites benefit businesses? What are the key components to a quality website? What can a professional website developer do for a business website that the owner can't do with some purchased software? Can you give us an example of one website you worked on and how it benefited the business?

Yalesville Veterinary Hospital Name Kathy Grasso Contact Info 322 Church St. Wallingford, CT 06492 203-265-1646 yalesville.vet.hosp@snet.net

What type of veterinary hospital do you have? What are your responsibilities and duties? 1. What skills/abilities do you feel students need to have to be successful veternaians 3. Looking at the people you currently see becoming veternarians what are their strengths and what are their weaknesses? What are your thoughts regarding how much we should focus on content knowledge versus focusing on students’ ability to learn/adapt/grow?

6. Tell us a little bit about any changes you foresee in your practice in the next 5-15 years (and beyond). What do you think this means for students currently in high school and for K-12 education in general who wish to become veternarians? 7. What types of technologies should our students be proficient at using? 8. What was the best learning/educational experience you have had? Why?

10. When we're done today, what's the one most important "take-away" message you'd like our teachers and students to hear?

Wallingford Public Library Name Karen Roesler Contact Info 200 North Main St. Wallingford, CT 06492 203-265-6754 kroesler@lioninc.org

In letter intro should include something about how in the 21st Century with all info coming into peoples houses via computers, how can libraries still be viable

What are your duties and responsibilities at the library? How has technology changed the way the libary operates in the last ten years? How will it change how you operate in the next ten years? What is the libary doing to compete digital media? What does a libray have to offer to kids who seem to just want to go home and go on their computers? Have you seen a decrease in people taking out books as computers grow more popular? When we're done today, what's the one most important "take-away" message you'd like our teachers and students to hear?

Ralph Tomaselli Contact Info 11 Crown St. Meriden, CT 06450 203-317-2220 rtomaselli@recordjournal.com

What are your responsibilities at the Record Journal? 1. What skills/abilities do you feel students need to have to be successful in the 21st century as jopurnalists?

3. Looking at the people you currently see entering journalism, what are their strengths and what are their weaknesses? 4. What are your thoughts regarding how much we should focus on content knowledge versus focusing on students’ ability to learn/adapt/grow?

6. Tell us a little bit about any changes you foresee for the newspaper industry in the next 5-15 years (and beyond). What do you think this means for students currently in high school and for K-12 education in general? Because of the increasing pressure from people getting their news from computers, what has your newspaper done to compete with that?

8. What was the best learning/educational experience you have had? Why?

10. When we're done today, what's the one most important "take-away" message you'd like our teachers and students to hear?

Shubert Theater Name Anthony Lupinacci Contact Info 247 College St. New Haven, CT 06511 203-624-1825 alupinacci@capa.com

Winterbourne Land Services Name Rosalind Page Contact Info 604 Center St Wallingford, CT 06492 203-284-0392 rcpwls@att.net

Cytec Industries Inc. Name Susan Fearney Contact Info South Cherry Street Wallingford, CT 06492 203.284.4302 Susan_Fearney@cytec.com

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BYK-Chemie, USA Name Jen Graber Contact Info 524 S. Cherry St. Wallingford, CT 06492 203-303-3250 jennifer.graber@altanachemie.com

Yale School of Medicine, ITS-YU, Prod. Sys. Name Louis Passariello Contact Info 100 Church St. Room 135 New Haven, CT 06519 203-737-2695

Staban Engineering Name Dennis Bandecchi Contact Info 65 North Plains Industrial Rd. Wallingford, CT 06492 203-294-1997 dennisbandecchi@staban.com

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