TCS Student News April 26, 2024
April 26, 2024
This week’s edition of TCS Student News was researched, written, produced and anchored by Rhys Guilfoyle and Quinn Guilfoyle with technical production by Mohamed Cisse.
This week’s edition of TCS Student News was researched, written, produced and anchored by Rhys Guilfoyle and Quinn Guilfoyle with technical production by Mohamed Cisse.
We were pleasantly surprised to have Israel Erron Ford and Jude Tibeau visit us today for our “Conversation with…”. They are two of the terrific actors in the play Hot Wing King that is currently being performed at Baltimore Center Stage. We met them there after attending the play yesterday.
It was another terrific conversation starting with the students sharing a bit about themselves, something about the school and what they took away from experiencing the play yesterday. This was followed by Israel and Jude shared their educational and career journeys including how they became interested in acting and their goaals as young actors. Much of the conversation centered on the production of the play and on the significance of the story told.
We are very thankful of Israel and Jude for their generosity of time and candid sharing with us. Both the play and our time with them were both enjoyable and meaningful.
This week’s edition of TCS Student News was researched, written, produced and anchored by Mohamed Cisse and Ruth Rivas with technical production by Rhys Guilfoyle.
The students completed their lamp projects this week. They have been building and wiring lamps for the monthly woodworking classes conducted by Done Construction. The women from Done did the prep work, supplied all of the materials and taught the students the assembly and finishing skills. The students put everything together, did the wiring and hardware assembly as well as the sanding and finishing. Each student gets to take home the beautiful lamp they made and finished.
We are so thankful for our partnership with Done Construction and appreciate their work to introduce our students to basic woodworking, home repair and a career in the trade.
Luis Sierra Moncion, Deputy Director of the Johns Hopkins University Center for Social Concern (CSC), was our guest for today’s Conversation with. It was the first time Luis has been to the school though TCS has had a relationship with CSC since its inception.
Luis’s dad was born in Puerto Rico and his mom was born in the Dominican Republic. He grew up in both places as well as Florida, once his family migrated there. He has a special interest in integrating community and social justice with the higher education student experience. Luis shared about the work of CSC as well as his own personal story.
The students also shared their motivation to get an education and talked about what aspect of TCS is especially important to them. After the Conversation, Luis was taken on a tour of the building by the students.
This was an interesting and meaningful conversation and hope it’s the first of many visits by Luis to the school.