Dallas Lutheran School worked more than 800 service hours in September during the school's community service day, Beyond My Front Door.

Four days of the school year Dallas Lutheran empties its campus taking teachers, staff, students and parents to day care centers, nursing homes, elementary schools, homeless shelters and food banks.

Some of the agencies that benefit include the Vickery Meadow Learning Center, Buckner’s Shoes for Orphan Souls, Presbyterian Village North, Family Gateway and Vogel Alcove.

"By stepping outside our doors at Dallas Lutheran we are able to get to know and serve our neighbors," said Kathy Koeneman, DLS staff member and Beyond My Front Door program coordinator.

Later that same month, 50 Dallas Lutheran School staff and students were involved in a "Mass Casualty Incident" training exercise with the Dallas Fire Department at Valley View Mall.

Drama students were given different roles to perform in a fake shooting, many in make-up to make the scene more realistic.

Numerous students were put on stretchers and carried away by ambulance in the training exercise.

"The students and staff members are proud to support the firefighters and EMT personnel who support each of us," said Koeneman.

Back in the classroom, the DLS Robotniks Team competed in the Dallas area BEST (Boosting Engineering, Science, and Technology) competition in October.

The team did extremely well finishing in 5th place out of over 20 entries.

Senior Dillon McInnes was awarded the Graduating Senior Award which included a $200 scholarship to the school of his choice.

The BEST competition involved building a robot out of the supplies which were provided at the competition held at the UTD Student Activity Center.

In addition to building the robot, teams demonstrated their expertise in driving and utilizing the robot to compete different tasks as assigned at the completion in addition to keeping an engineering notebook and writing several research essays.

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Dallas Lutheran School is located at 8494 Stults Road in Lake Highlands.

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