[embed]https://youtu.be/uPxGiZ27bug[/embed] This week's TCS Student News was researched, written and produced by students Sara Harris and Garrett Anderson. Stories include Syrian chemical attack, border patrol, and happenings around the school....
[embed]https://youtu.be/kM4Lc_Bvkio[/embed] This week's broadcast was researched, written, and produced by Claude Nicholson and Sean LaRicci. Stories include DACA, the China tariffs, and news around the school...
[embed]https://youtu.be/LA2rh1rFW-g[/embed] This week's edition of TCS Student News was produced by Spencer Erdossy and Olivia Yates. They have updates on the war in Syria, Russian elections and more as well as all the happenings at TCS for the past week....
[embed]https://youtu.be/jhaj3JNqSYg[/embed] This week's edition of TCS Student News was researched, written, produced, and anchored by students Marcus McKeever and Daj'a White. International stories include recent elections in Colombia as well as the response to the US administration's tariff announcements. This edition is also packed with news around the The Community School including special programs on the Holocaust and reports on the Scavenger Hunt and other events around the school....
Today we were honored to have Larry Gross Skype in from the West Coast to share his family's stories from the Holocaust. Larry's mom was a survivor from the Auschwitz death camp who had come face to face with the "angel of death", Dr. Mengele, and who had survived a malfunction in the gas chamber. Larry has shared this story with many of our students over the years. The students will be going to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday. Larry continues his mom's work of keeping the memory of this horrific period alive and reaffirming the struggle for justice. His poignant retelling of the story including his own journey back to the site of this crime against his family and humanity. Following Larry's presentation, one of the students, Vernon, wrote the following: "I thought the conversation with Larry Gross was extremely powerful. Hearing his mother 's story was both inspiring and heartbreaking, I say inspiring because she never lost her voice through all of this, even though she did say in the paper she wrote, that at times she wanted to give up, but she never did. Instead she had the courage to raise awareness to educate people on how evil people can be and she really believed in 'never again.' This is the second time I've heard the story and it still makes me heavy hearted and it is really horrific to think humans are capable of doing that to others." ...
A new career option is being considered by several of the students after today's Conversation with Ryan Dunford. Mr. Dunford is a special agent with the Supreme Court of the United States Protection Detail. He informed students about his path from a neighborhood boy in Buffalo, New York to a career that brings him meaning, pride, and adventure. The students were keenly interested and a great conversation was had by all. Thanks, Ryan....
https://youtu.be/m01-c7dQDu4 This week's broadcast of TCS Student News was researched, written, produced and anchored by Vernon Laumann and Jordan Leon. Stories include the ambush of US soldiers in Nigeria, talks with North Korea, and the new tariffs. They also covered news around The Community School....
The students had a special seminar course in American Sign Language taught by Peggy Lashbrook. Peggy started the course with an explanation of how she came to learn sign language and her lifetime of work in the deaf community. The students concentrated on learning the alphabet and 100 common words. All of the students enjoyed the class. The school is considering American Sign Language to be on the course list next year....
This weeks edition of TCS Student news was researched, written, produced, and anchored by students Caleb Rohe and Donald Lacy. Stories include the dangers of vaping, expanded women's rights in Saudi Arabia, an update on Boko Haram and the Winter Olympics as well as goings ons around TCS....
The students attended a unique play at Single Carrot Theatre called The Death of Walt Disney. Performed by Paul Diem, Mohammad , Eric Poch, and Meghan Stanton, the play explored the dark side of the late creator of the Disney empire. Student Claude Nicholson said, "I liked it because it showed a deeper view of how business can truly change a man." Special thanks to Genevieve de May and the folks at Single Carrot for giving us this opportunity....