It is a big day and night at Nashville Middle School today.  There is a Wurst-markt going on in the middle school cafeteria, the book fair is in the middle school library, and there are volleyball games in the primary school gym.  Also, there is an informational meeting on the possibility of laptop computers for all students next year.  The Social Studies Fair will be going on in the middle school gym.  Social Studies teacher Ed Breuchaud says this is going to be a big event.  In total there are about 240 presentations from the 5^th through 8^th grade students with 60 of them being digital projects.  The 8^th graders used a program called Prezi, which is an online presentation tool to create a biography style presentation of the life of an inventor or world leader.  It has pictures and a heading, but the students use their own voice to tell the whole story.  They used their laptops to record numerous voice recordings and then inserted them throughout the presentation.  They also made photo mosaics that they printed out and are displayed with their laptop in a custom frame that they put together and painted in art class.  Besides the digital presentations, the 5^th grade will have presentation boards on Presidents, the 6^th grade on states and the 7^th grade on countries.  The hours for viewing are 3:30 to 7 PM.  The 8th grade has been challenged to generate enough buzz around town to get 1,000 tickets handed out.  The prize for reaching that goal for the 8^th grade is a pizza party and the other grades also win a class party.  Everyone who enters the gym will get a raffle ticket for a chance to win free gift cards.  All ages can get a ticket.  Winning ticket numbers will be posted on the school website after the fair, so you don’t have to stick around to see if you won.  Just hold the ticket and check www.nashville49.org