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  [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lSQks4_8zA[/embed] Check out today's broadcast of TCS Student News. Today's stories include the elections, the new Supreme Court nominee, news from around The Community School, and a special student commentary about racism. This week it was researched, written, anchored, and produced by students Dyrrell Moon and Donald Lacy. Stay tuned every week for a weekly roundup of news from the school to the world. Check it out ...

Special thanks to writer and photographer Jim Burger for writing a story about The Community School that was published in the B today. Jim spent several months at the school and shared a lot of time with the students. He talked to dozens of people from students and alumni to families and volunteers in an effort to truly capture what goes on at the school and what it means to those who are a part of this effort. You can read the article here: The Community School, a one-room schoolhouse in Remington thrives...

With the wrap up of the 2nd Trimester, a meeting was held for all Year 1 & Year 2 students and sponsors at the school. There was a special presentation from art teacher Miko Veldkamp with a showing of art work produced by the class.  Students shared insights into their work with Donald Lacy explaining his work reflected an "explosion of happiness." This was followed by a talk on highlights of the trimester before each class broke into separate sessions.  Teachers Genira Nelson-Lewis and Tom Culotta led discussions with students and sponsors about progress and issues. Substantive concerns about student habits and stress were discussed as well as the pace needed for graduation in three years.  The meeting ended with report card distribution.  The next sponsor meeting will take place on June 2nd....

A Sponsor Meeting will be held at the school for both Year 1 and Year 2 students on Thursday, March 10th from 5:30 P.M.-6:30 P.M..  The meeting marks the end of the 2nd Trimester and report cards will be distributed....

Wounds across the classroom were expertly bandaged with care yesterday as the students participated in a special full day seminar.  Mark Henckel , safety manager at Iacoboni Site Specialists, taught and certified all of the students in CPR and First Aid.  The students were educated in all the aspects of emergency first aid and treatment as well as learning and practicing CPR on manikins deigned for this purpose.  Special thanks to Advisory Board member Tom Iacoboni for making this possible....

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzWSLZPNT5U[/embed] We send our congratulations to long time TCS volunteer Gabriela "Gaby" Frid. Gabby was part of a team at Johns Hopkins University that developed a new protective suit for health workers that are exposed to ebola patients. Gabby is a senior and is a part of the JHU-CSI (Community School Initiative) team that develops and conducts twice weekly labs for our students.  Congratulations Gabby!...

TCS graduate Justin Switzer, who is also a youth librarian at the Enoch Pratt Free Library, presented a seminar today on 3-D printing.  He explained how it works and the many programs available to design 3-D projects.  This was followed by the students developing their own individual designs and a demonstration on a 3-D printer that Justin brought along with him. This new technology has the potential to have a major impact on commerce and expanding the capaciy an individual's creativity can achieve. The students were intrigued and are looking forward to the next seminar in this series....

Advisory Board members were invited to share their life and work experiences at a special session of the monthly Job Readiness Seminar chaired by Peggy Lashbrook. The students heard stories about how Tom Iacoboni and Mitchell Brown developed their businesses, Mary Pat Clarke entered into politics and became a member of the Baltimore City Council, Carol Berman left her rural town in Illinois to become a speech pathologist, Don Riesett went from the Pigtown community to becoming a worldwide advertising executive, and Chris Mazzulli switched careers to work in information technology helping people with disabilities.  Special invited guest Mike Gallo also shared his experience of rising from the streets of Chicago to becoming an executive in Minolta. The students were inspired by their stories and enjoyed the session as well as the private conversations after....

To compliment lessons in their physics class, students broke into teams to "build a better bridge" as part of their weekly labs led by CSI - the Community School Initiative of Johns Hopkins University. The three teams each took a different approach to building their engineering projects before the competition to see which bridge would hold the most weight.  The photo shows students Vernon Laumann, Janiah Tillery, and Michael Poe. Special thanks to CSI leaders Quenton Bubb and Kathryn Rees as well as  all of their members who give up their time every week to work with our students....

The students were excited to have gym class return today after a multi-week absence.  Classes resumed with new gym teacher Eduardo Viana who is filling in for Sasha Draper during her maternity leave. Mr. Eduardo started with a basketball clinic that everyone seemed to enjoy.  Gym classes are held weekly down the street at The GreenMount School through their generous sharing of space. (Late Breaking News:  Congratulations Sasha and Carter on the birth of your son Griffin!)...