Welcome to Sign Language Interpreting!

A person's natural language is the electricity of his or her soul, and to disconnect it is to shut them down.
by Antwone Quenton Fisher in Finding Fish.

2007 - 2008 School Year

We Have Video from Signing the LSE Fight Song in May, 2006!

click on the picture to see the video
we apologize for the quality of this real media version ... Manila allows just 15 MB for video
and the MPEG version alone is over 20 MB ... sorry!

Meet the Club Sponsors, Interpreters and the Students Who are Expert Signers

Sponsor Mrs. Cummings	Kassandra (pink top) and Heather (sitting on desk) get a question about the signs to the Southeast Fight Song Click here to see the signs	Sponsor Mrs. Christensen
Roxie	Renee	Sheri
Drew	Quoc	Brandon
Heather	Riley	Kassandra

Club Members Introduce Themselves and Tell of Their Favorite Hobby

Mrs. Cummings signs about her favorite pasttime with group members	Members practice signing "everyday"	Two members doublecheck their fingerspelling
Riley reveals his favorite hobby is flags	Sign Club members sell candy to raise money for our Saratoga Holiday Fundraiser in December, 2005	Members practice signing "I don't know"

Top 10 Reasons for Learning Sign Language

1.  You can communicate through windows.
2.  You can sign underwater.
3.  You can sign with your mouth full.
4.  You can use your hands to communicate.
5.  You can reduce noise pollution with signing.
6.  You can learn about a new culture by making friends with Deaf people.
7.  You can open doors with a new language.
8.  You are learning a 3D language.
9.  You are learning that sign language is beautiful.
10. SIGN LANGUAGE BRINGS DEAF AND HEARING PEOPLE TOGETHER!

Sign Club Honors Seniors

We held our last club meeting for the 2005-2005 school year on Friday, May 13, 2005.  We honored 3 seniors and club officers ... Secretary Candace Jurgens, President Dustin Sipp, and Historian Christina Weber ... Candace and Christina are going on to Southeast Community College here in Lincoln, and Dustin will attend the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York.

Here are pictures of a game we played for the first time at our last meeting, and it truly tested our ability to use our bodies to express ourselves.  Many agreed it would be a great "ice breaker" for the first meeting of next year's club!  

We ran the miniature golf game again at Saratoga's Fun Night in April.  The lines were not as long as last year, but still steady throughout the night.  Next year....we promise to get pictures!

Officers (l-r): Andrew Sharp, treasurer; Candis Jurgens, secretary; Christina Weber, historian; Dustin Sipp, president; and Vanessa Bornemeier, vice president

Candis retrieves a golf ball as a Saratoga student lines up his next shot. At left, Andrew collects the tickets

Lincoln Public Schools, Lincoln, Nebraska USA