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Interviewing for Success

Students in Year 2, including Dyrrell Moon, gained valuable life skills today as part of their Job Readiness Seminar.  Today’s class focused on “the job interview” and students role played interviews with Mitchell Brown, TCS Advisory Board member and Chief Operating officer of Compco Digital.  Class leader Peggy Lashbrook gave the students tips as well as led a critique session after each interview.  This skill will be put to use by many students over the next several weeks as they apply for summer jobs, camps, and internships.

TCS Student News Broadcast

Check out today’s broadcast of TCS Student News. This week’s stories include the bombings in Brussels, the warming of US relations with Cuba, the zika virus, new developments in knee surgery, and loads of news from this busy week at The Community School. This week’s broadcast was researched, written, anchored and produced by Kelsey Larrimore and Donavin Hooper. Stay tuned every week for a weekly roundup of news from the school to the world.

Physics in Action!

With Year 1 class and shadow students watching on, Year 2 class was dropping eggs off the greenhouse deck.  This was part of an experiment conducted by JHU-CSI as part of their weekly lab series. The students each designed containers with straw and masking tape to absorb the energy of impact and protect the egg.  Students Sadie Greenwood, Janiah Tillery, Kelsey Larrimore, Natasha Martin, Chris White and Daj’a White each were successful with their designs.  Everyone had a lot of fun!

TCS Student News Broadcast

Sponsor Meeting Held

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.