Earthquake Drill Wins Praise

Explorer West students and staff participated in our annual earthquake simulation activity today. This fun, hands-on, educational event allows students to learn how to react in a crisis situation. The students were moulaged with fake blood and wounds, uninjured kids set up tents and helped with tasks as needed. Ben Wheeler was our "media spokesperson" during the emergency, and met with a West Seattle Blog reporter as part of the role playing exercise. The North Highline Fire Department came with their trucks and evaluated the school community's response to this "emergency". They reported back that Explorer West runs one of most well executed earthquake simulation exercises and expressed interest in replicating it in other schools.

Here is a link to the story as covered on the West Seattle Blog: http://westseattleblog.com/2010/09/explorer-west-middle-school-goes-all-out-for-earthquake-drill