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Students Win Awards in Regional Writing Contest

Once again, our students won multiple regional Scholastic awards from the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers for their excellence in writing. Students submitted their writings that they produced in Mr. Don’s weekly Creative Writing Seminar and revised after meeting one-on-one with Mr. Don in a separate session. Some students submitted multiple works to the contest and won multiple awards for the deeply thoughtful and creative works.

Gold Key Award Winners are Ethan, Kendall, Madison and Ruth.

Silver Key Award Winners are Ethan, Hector, Madison, Mohamed, Quinn, and Ruth

Honorable Mention Award Winners are Hector, Jordan, Karla, Kendall, Madison, Mohamed, Quinn, Rhys, Ruth.

Scholastic wrote the following to us:
“Your students works were reviewed by a panel of creative professionals, and awarded for its outstanding merit in originality, skill, and the emergence of a personal voice and vision.

Since 1923, the Awards have recognized some of the nation’s most celebrated artists and writers while they were teenagers, including Tschabalala Self, Stephen King, Kay WalkingStick, Jose Parla, Amanda Gorman, Charles White, Joyce Carol Oates, and Andy Warhol! We are proud to count your students among these esteemed Scholastic Art & Writing Awards alumni!”

We are proud of all of our students and their skill, creativity and drive. We salute them and Mr. Don for this honor!

Code in the Schools Now in TCS!

We are proud to announce a new partnership with Code in the Schools! Their mission states: “We empower Baltimore City youth to thrive in the 21st century economy by expanding access to quality computer science education and building pathways from school to jobs and higher education.”

This has yielded a new weekly seminar that will have each student building and programming a small computer and then using it to analyze and solve problems. This seminar is entitled “30 Days Lost in Space” and was developed by a former NASA researcher and college professor, Dr. Greg Lyzenga.

Today’s seminar began with a welcome of Jacob Ferragmo who will be teaching this course and remarks by Code in the Schools Co-Director Stephanie Alphee. Stephanie, a neighbor of TCS, recently visited the school with fellow Co-Director Andrew Pham to establish what is hoped to be a long term partnership that will expand our students’ education and opportunities.

The students enjoyed this first session and are excited to get underway. Welcome Jacob and thank you Code in the Schools!

Urban Studies Course Begins!

Conversation with Dylan Low

We had a fascinating Conversation with Dylan Low today. Dylan is an active volunteer in the school and a Phd candidate in the Cognitive Neuroscience Department at Johns Hopkins University.

Dylan did a lively presentation on his home country of Singapore enlightening the students about its history, geography and culture. He also touched on his travels around Southeast Asia.

So much material was covered that there will be a Part II of this Conversation in a few weeks to more closely examine Dylan’s studies and personal journey.

Thank you Dylan for a great conversation and all of your help at the school!