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Students Certified!

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.

TCS Volunteer in the News

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!

3-D Printing Seminar

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.

Building a Better Bridge

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.

Welcome Eduardo Viana

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!)