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.
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzWSLZPNT5U
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.